Dans cet enregistrement raffiné, le pianiste Rafał Blechacz et la violoniste Bomsori Kim unissent leurs sensibilités pour explorer un répertoire d’une grande richesse poétique.

Le programme traverse les univers de Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Karol Szymanowski et Frédéric Chopin, offrant un dialogue subtil entre les esthétiques française et polonaise du tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles.

Entre impressionnisme vaporeux, lyrisme romantique et modernité naissante, les deux interprètes façonnent un univers sonore d’une grande délicatesse. Le jeu limpide et introspectif de Blechacz se mêle à la sonorité chaleureuse et expressive de Bomsori Kim, révélant toute la profondeur émotionnelle de ces œuvres pour violon et piano.

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It seems that Blechacz has done well to find Kim, too, because there's an audible meeting of musical minds across their exploration of French lyricism and Polish melancholy, heard right from the start of the opening Fauré Violin Sonata N° 1. First, Blechacz's picked-out melody sings out brightly with passionate amour from within lucid-textured cascading figures. Then in comes Kim, counterfoiling her equal romance with a clean, supple sound. Engineering-wise, as well, there's a nicely egalitarian balance between the two of them. What does remain constant, is the sheer energy and drive, aided by Kim's sound itself : direct and ardent, with mahogany-hued lower registers contrasting with sweetly ringing, singing upper ones. This all combines to especial effect with the Debussy, in an unusually driven, emotional-ly strong reading of this autumnal work. One of Kim's most effective gifts here is her spotlighting of Debussy's linguistic debt to the Orient; listen in the first movement to how grace-note inflections and sur la touche playing is so very husky and languorous that the parallels with Asian voice flute are unmissable. (Gramophone)