Tristan Murail Complete Piano Works

Comme un oeil suspendu et poli par le songe...

Estuaire

      Pres des rives

      Au melange des eaux

Territories de l'Oubli

Cloches d'adieu, et un sourire... (in memoriam Oliver Messiaen)

La Mandragore

Les Travaux et les Jours

"In Mr. Kigawa’s hands, they were investigations of the lives and deaths of sounds. As he moved through the program, you became increasingly sensitive to just how much of what you hear from a piano is a mysterious interplay of tones, sometimes long after the keys have been struck. So toward the end of 'Territories de l’Oubli' (1977), in which the sustaining pedal is held down throughout the piece’s nearly 30-minute duration, even the starkest, iciest notes have resonance, like the vapor rising from drops of liquid nitrogen… Mr. Kigawa plays with a fundamental gentleness, even in intense passage, but he brings a precision to the relentless pricks and bristling repetitions in these pieces…” - The New York Times

Taka Kigawa will perform the complete piano works of Tristan Murail.