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Grammys 2025 Winners List: Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Roan and More

NYT

3 février 2025 à 06:43

A complete rundown of the artists, albums, songs and videos that took home trophies at the 67th annual awards.

Beyoncé won album of the year for “Cowboy Carter,” making her the first Black woman to take home the Grammys’ top honor this century.

Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger review – the pianist’s subtle, searching debut

The Guardian

Par : Fiona Maddocks

1 février 2025 à 17:00

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Playing Brahms’s transcriptions of Bach and Handel, then Reger and Busoni takes on Brahms, Tsoy contemplates creativity across centuries in this fine recital

Elegantly constructed and intimate, this debut solo recital album by London-based Kazakh pianist Samson Tsoy has the music of Johannes Brahms at its centre. The fascination here is Tsoy’s exploration of Brahms’s passion for music of the past, specifically for his towering predecessors, JS Bach and Handel. Brahms transcribed works of theirs for piano, forging his own distinctive voice with theirs in an act of homage and discovery.

The magnificent Handel Variations, Op 24 spins an unexciting little baroque theme into 25 variations of brilliant variety and ingenuity. Brahms set himself a particular challenge with the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita No 2 in D minor. Attempting to reflect the immeasurable yet compressed range of a work written for solo violin, he restricted his arrangement to piano left hand only. This gives a shadowy poignancy to Bach’s work, which Brahms described as one of the “most wonderful and incomprehensible” pieces of music.

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