THE MORNING LIST
This week, we offer you eight records appreciated and reviewed by the critics in the Music section of Mondeand marketed in November. In chronological order of release: 6e et 7e Sonatasby Prokofiev, by pianist Sergei Redkin; Duke Ellington compositions by singer Al Jarreau; Garciaphone's third indie-folk album; the intimate approach of Philippe Katerine; the soundscapes of the streets of Istanbul by the group BaBa ZuLa; the reveries of Louis Chedid; Kim Deal's first solo album; the new album from rapper Kendrick Lamar.
“Invasion”: pianist Sergei Redkin plays Prokofiev’s “War Sonatas”
Winner of major international competitions, Sergei Redkin has not yet obtained, at 31 years old, the recognition that his ability to renew the perception of among the most performed works in the repertoire, like the Sonatas called “war”, composed by Serge Prokofiev in the early 1940s. 6e sonata opens with a pounding of the keyboard by hands which fall like bombs before releasing from the harmonic rubble a line on which the pianist advances like a tightrope walker. Sergei Redkin is very personal. His strikes are delivered with power, but without brutality. Their counterpart, murky and unreal, is never vague. The key to its interpretation, magnified in the Finaleconsists of going beyond contrasts by placing each element in the same perspective.
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