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Label Antarctica |
UPC 0608917734324 |
Catalogue number AR 043 |
Release date 07 April 2023 |
The present album recreates a unique conversation between the music of Cyril Scott, George Enescu and Maurice Ravel. This conversation takes place through the medium of sound poems to create a reality which is perhaps more perfect than our own. Furthermore, this album reveals an intricate web of friendships and mutual influences between musical artists working in Paris – relationships which empowered them to develop distinct but related musical languages. The works recorded here display a common musical language – a language whose syntax springs directly out of Wagner’s deconstruction of tonal harmony, further elaborated by Debussy’s free experimentations with timbre, sound and touch. In the latter’s art, the fluid harmonic language creates the sense of a series of vivid pictorial images – but these images also suggest a further intangible element beyond the realm of sense impressions, an intuition of the ‘Symbol’, a key which can unlock the inner content of appearances, an idea which played a crucial role in the artistic discourse of the time. Ravel, Enescu and Scott were unequivocally children of their times, but perhaps what is truly fascinating to performer and listener lies in disclosing the individual response of each composer to this artistic milieu.
Born into a family of musicians from Bucharest, Cristian Sandrin has been sur - rounded by classical music all his life. The year 2017 was marked by his successful and critically well received debut solo recital at the Wigmore Hall. Cristian is a scholarship holder of the Imogen Cooper Music Trust benefiting from her unique one-to-one guidance and mentorship since 2017
Born into a family of musicians from Bucharest, Cristian Sandrin has been surrounded by classical music all his life. His frequent visits to the historic Romanian Atheneum concert hall and his attendances at the prestigious Enescu Festival shaped his musical aspirations from early childhood. Not surprising, years later, he would have his own debut at the Atheneum at the age of 13.
Cristian is an artist engaging with a multitude of repertoire, but especially devoted to the Classical and Romantic repertoire. His passion for Mozart's piano concertos led him to direct from the keyboard several concertos during Summer Festivals at the Royal Academy of Music, as well as for the official opening of the Angela Burgess Recital Hall. From 2018–2020 he was privileged to tour the UK as an artist of the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme. Additionally, Cristian is a scholarship holder of the Imogen Cooper Music Trust benefiting from her unique one-to-one guidance and mentorship since 2017.
In 2021 Cristian travelled to Romania for his debut with the acclaimed George Enescu Philharmonic performing Mozart's K503 Piano Concerto in C major at the country's foremost music venue: The Romanian Atheneum - the same temple of music from Cristian's childhood. Since 2020, Cristian has performed challenging solo programmes including Beethoven's last three sonatas, Bach's Goldberg Variations in famous venues across Europe from Berlin's Konzerthaus, Radio Hall in Bucharest to London's LSO St Luke's - recitals that have left audiences and critics spellbound by the Cristian's mature interpretations.
As Artistic Director of the Kettner Concerts series in London, Cristian crafts engaging solo and chamber music programs that invite audiences to engage with broad landscapes of classical music. His latest project, premiering at St John's Smith Square in February 2025, offers an inventive take on Bach's Goldberg Variations: The New Goldberg Variations project interweaves three newly commissioned variation by up-and-coming composers into Bach's original work, creating a special dialogue between tradition and contemporary creativity.
Cristian collaborates often as a soloist with the Petersfield Festival Orchestra, the Oxford Sinfonia, the Bournemouth Bach Choir Orchestra as well as orchestras from his native Romania: the Bacau State Philharmonic, Sibiu State Philharmonic, Ramnicu-Valcea State Philharmonic, Oltenia Philharmonic and Bucharest Symphony Orchestra.