Dmytro Choni - Pilgrimage (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Trained in Kyiv, his hometown, then in Austria where he lives today, Dmytro Choni - Bronze Medalist at the 2022 Van Cliburn, Gold Medalist at the Santander Paloma O'Shea in 2018 - imagines for his recording debut with naive an ingenious and mischievous dialogue between Paradise and Hell, in direct echo to the Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri, the essential poet of the late Italian Middle Ages, who was a strong influence on a Romanticism that was looking for it's roots.

The luminous pieces, with soothing melodies, embody Paradise. The first opus of his compatriot Valentyn Silvestrov, whose aesthetic recalls the quiet beauty of Kyiv, the calm Bagatelles open the present journey in elegiac tones, even if here and there, as in the moving Moderato median, some beginnings of a coming anxiety emerge.

TRACKLIST

1. Dmytro Choni - 3 Bagatelles, Op. 1: No. 1, Allegretto
2. Dmytro Choni - 3 Bagatelles, Op. 1: No. 2, Moderato
3. Dmytro Choni - 3 Bagatelles, Op. 1: No. 3, Moderato
4. Dmytro Choni - Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 "Italie": VII. Après une lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi Sonata
5. Dmytro Choni - Images, 2ème série, CD 120: II. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
6. Dmytro Choni - L'isle joyeuse, CD 109
7. Dmytro Choni - Gargoyles, Op. 29: I. Presto
8. Dmytro Choni - Gargoyles, Op. 29: II. Adagio semplice, ma con molto rubato
9. Dmytro Choni - Gargoyles, Op. 29: III. Allegro moderato
10. Dmytro Choni - Gargoyles, Op. 29: IV. Presto feroce
11. Dmytro Choni - Postludium, Op. 5



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