Tonya Lemoh: Harmonies du Soir

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms

Genre:

Instrumental

Label: Danacord

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 56

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: DACOCD743

DACOCD743. Tonya Lemoh: Harmonies du Soir

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(3) Pieces Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Tonya Lemoh, Piano
(12) Etudes d'exécution transcendante, Movement: No. 11, Harmonies du soir Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Tonya Lemoh, Piano
(6) Consolations Series I, Movement: D flat Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Tonya Lemoh, Piano
Années de pèlerinage année 1: Suisse, Movement: Vallée d'Obermann Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Tonya Lemoh, Piano
Goyescas, Movement: No. 4, Quejas o la maja y el ruiseñor Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Tonya Lemoh, Piano
(6) Escenas románticas, Movement: No. 3, El poeta y el ruisenor Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Tonya Lemoh, Piano
(6) Escenas románticas, Movement: No. 6, Epilogo: Andantino spianato Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Enrique Granados (y Campiña), Composer
Tonya Lemoh, Piano
This intriguingly varied recital takes its title from ‘Harmonies du soir’, grandest and most expansive of Liszt’s 12 Transcendental Etudes. And it is both here and in the vast spans of ‘Vallée d’Obermann’ (from the Swiss book of the Années de pèlerinages) that Tonya Lemoh (Australian-born but now based in Denmark) makes her truest mark, showing an empathy that eludes her in her many more intimate offerings. She is bold and assertive in ‘Vallée d’Obermann’ rather than lost in gloomy contemplation. Anxious to keep everything on the move, she modifies Liszt’s lento direction, banishing all sense of Byronic longueurs. How she revels, too, in the central Alpine storm, making thunder and lightning flash across the keyboard.

In Granados’s ‘The Maiden and the Nightingale’ and in two of the magical Escenas románticas, she is also rewarding. But in Brahms’s Op 117 Intermezzos she is too generalised, too lacking in colour and inflection to suggest their crepuscular magic. Bypassing terms such as piano and dolce or sotto voce, she fails to read between the lines and one only has to turn to Radu Lupu (admittedly a cruel comparison) for a radically different poetic experience. In Liszt’s Consolations Nos 3 and 4 I wished for something altogether more rapt and inward. Danacord’s sound is exemplary.

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