Andrew Tyson – Ravel & Scriabin: Piano Works (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:39 minutes | 452 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
After his first recording, devoted to Chopin (ZZT 347), and the award of First Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in 2015, which gave a substantial boost to his career, the young American pianist Andrew Tyson has devised a new programme to showcase his talents: two sonatas and a waltz by Scriabin coupled with Ravel’s Miroirs. Andrew Tyson has chosen to associate two composers whose language seems to divide them, but who nevertheless have many things in common, notably their use of tonality, of certain unusual harmonies and of dissonance. Alexander Scriabin and Maurice Ravel also lived in the same city, at the same period, without ever meeting: Debussy, Ravel and the French musical elite of the period regarded their Russian colleagues as crude and uneducated. Yet when one listens to their music, even if their approach to the piano and to composition could hardly be more different, it is apparent that they use tone colours in the same way. For Andrew Tyson, ‘Ravel is an elegant perfectionist, whose every detail is calculated and glitters like crystal; Scriabin is like a flickering flame – passionate, reckless, spontaneous and erotic.’ (Texte from Alpha Classics)
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Andrew Tyson – Landscapes: Scarlatti, Schubert, Albéniz & Mompou (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:01:53 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
After releasing two recordings – the first devoted to Chopin and the second to Ravel and Scriabin – and winning First Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in 2015, which gave his career a powerful momentum, the young American pianist Andrew Tyson has conceived a new tailor-made programme of music by Domenico Scarlatti, Schubert, Mompou and Albéniz. His programme focuses on landscapes, starting out from Federico Mompou’s piece of that name (Paisajes) and taking us on a journey elsewhere in Spain (Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Book I of Iberia by Isaac Albéniz) and the Austrian countryside (where Franz Schubert composed the Sonata in A Major D. 664).
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Andrew Tyson – Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:38 minutes | 456 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zig-Zag Territoires
The Zig-Zag Territoires label, like the Outhere Music group of which it is a part, is particularly attentive to the emergence and support of new talents, of which this CD, the first by the young pianist Andrew Tyson, is a good illustration. But it is also much more than that for it bears witness to the interpretation, already enlightening, of a very great talent and to the birth, on disc, of a singular, poetic voice.
Andrew Tyson has chosen to record the cycle of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, which represent so many different worlds to explore and bring to life. He excels therein thanks to the fantastic variety of timbres that he manages to make blossom on the piano of the Teldex studio in Berlin, and also to an extraordinary contrapuntal capacity.
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