Labyrinth
2020 · David Greilsammer · Naïve Records
Paru mondialement chez Naïve Records, l'album solo « Labyrinth » de David Greilsammer est un projet étonnant, sauvage et inattendu, qui raconte l'histoire d'un rêve saisissant ayant hanté l'artiste pendant des années. L'auditeur est invité à un voyage musical inhabituel, à travers un labyrinthe de pièces courtes, du premier baroque jusqu'à la musique de notre temps, y compris des œuvres jamais entendues auparavant.
L'album comprend les deux parties de ma pièce Repetition Blindness. La pièce a reçu le soutien du « Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund ».
presse
“The core of ‘Labyrinth’ is given over to Granados’s poignant ‘Love and Death,’ a rhapsodic 13-minute work with Chopinesque reveries and passages suggesting a forlorn guitar song. The two parts of Mr. Pelz’s maniacal ‘Repetition Blindness’ are broken up by Mr. Greilsammer’s arrangement of the Baroque composer Marin Marais’s ‘Labyrinth,’ which on the surface sounds chirpy and animated, but just below is spiked with tart clusters and fidgety runs. Finally, two fiery pieces by Scriabin provide transfixing context for an arrangement by Jonathan Keren of a Baroque piece for orchestra by Rebel, the aptly titled ‘Chaos’ - teeming, unpredictable and astonishing music.”
The New York Times - critique
“A fantastical and disorienting adventure… an ambitious attempt by a thoughtful artist to rethink what a recital can be in our time… a listening pleasure”
Presse
“Listening to this unexpected performance is like being on a roller coaster… It is troubling, and at the same time fascinating and delightful… the most interesting album I have heard this year”
Presse (en hébreu)
“Impassioned decisiveness and brilliant clarity… ingenious”
Presse
“A courageous soul journey… There could not be a better way of getting lost”
Diffusion radio (en allemand)