Rachmaninov: Dissonance

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Whole worlds are packed into each of the 19 songs on this unmissable debut recital from Grigorian. The Lithuanian’s soprano has a steely glint and powerful intensity, but nor does she stint on... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Mar 2022
Catalogue No: ALPHA796
Label: Alpha
Length: 45 minutes

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2022

Winner - Song
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Finalist 2022
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Winner - Vocal Music
Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Winner - Female Singer of the Year
Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Nominated - Solo Vocal

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Rachmaninoff: Dissonance, Op.34, No.13

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Asmik Grigorian, Lukas Geniušas

Rachmaninoff: My child, your beauty is that of a flower, Op. 8 No. 2

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Excerpt, Rachmaninoff: Songs (12), Op. 14

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I. I Wait for Thee

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VIII. Oh, Do not Grieve!

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Rachmaninoff: All was taken from me, Op. 26 No. 2

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Excerpt, Rachmaninoff: Songs (12), Op. 21

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III. Twilight

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IV. They Answered

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Rachmaninoff: Do not believe me, friend, Op. 14 No. 7

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Rachmaninoff: How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7

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Rachmaninoff: Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne, Op. 4 No. 4

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Excerpt, Rachmaninoff: Songs (12), Op. 21

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XI. No Prophet I

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XII. How Painful for Me

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V. Lilacs

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Rachmaninoff: Spring torrents, Op. 14 No.11

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Rachmaninoff: A dream, Op. 8 No. 5

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Rachmaninoff: What happiness, Op. 34 No.12

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Rachmaninoff: In the silence of the secret night, Op. 4 No. 3

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Rachmaninoff: Fragment from A. Musset, Op. 21 No. 6

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Rachmaninoff: We shall rest, Op.26, No. 3

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Asmik Grigorian, Lukas Geniušas

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Following her triumphs on the stages of the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals and at Covent Garden, Asmik Grigorian now belongs to the world’s vocal elite. She joins Alpha Classics for several projects and presents here her very first recital, devoted to one of her favourite composers, Sergei Rachmaninov. This album, entitled Dissonance, assembles vocal works carefully chosen by the soprano for the contrasts they generate when grouped together: ‘Most of Rachmaninov’s songs really call for operatic power. In fact, he wrote mini-operas lasting a few minutes.’ While this album is called Dissonance, in reference to the ‘internal conflicts’ that punctuate these songs, the duo formed by the Lithuanian singer and her pianist compatriot Lukas Geniušas is one of total consonance!

‘A Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for Risk’ – The New York Times

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August 2022

Whole worlds are packed into each of the 19 songs on this unmissable debut recital from Grigorian. The Lithuanian’s soprano has a steely glint and powerful intensity, but nor does she stint on vulnerability and introspection. Geniušas is a superb piano partner.

3rd April 2022

they make a compelling duo. Grigorian’s singing is pristine, athletic, strong, less formidably impassioned than the never-to-be-replicated Galina Vishnevskaya, but she has delicacy and tenderness, too...As Grigorian’s last phrase hangs in the air, the heart stands still.

April 2022

Grigorian is utterly compelling throughout. Even on disc, without the visuals, you can hear how Grigorian lives and breathes each song...Pianist Lukas Geniušas is an equal partner dramatically.

March 2022

The white-hot charisma which the Lithuanian soprano brings to roles like Salome and Jenůfa registers just as forcefully in the studio as it does on stage, to the extent that every one of these songs really does feel like an opera in miniature - and Geniušas matches her for sheer magnetism at every turn (check out the postlude of 'What Happiness' for a taster).

10th April 2022

Her selection...brings out the visceral quality and dramatic expressiveness of her singing. Geniusas is equally transported by this most pianistic of composers. Some have questioned whether Grigorian is apt to sacrifice purity of tone for emotional attack, but that seems overly nitpicky when you witness the power she displays here

11th March 2022

Her tone at its fullest, all velvet-wrapped steel, gleams with enough edge to cut through anything a full-throttle Rachmaninov piano part can throw at it, and Geniušas does not give the impression of holding back...Quieter passages bring hints of vulnerability and a more convincing tenderness than most singers of Grigorian’s power can summon without the voice losing its poise.

International Classical Music Awards 2023

Slavic emotional expression never boils over but remains precisely at the service of the music. Grigorian's instrumental soprano conveys the feelings of loneliness, pain and ecstasy in an intense way and delicately emphasizes the meanings of the poem. Geniušas finds all the colours and moods of the piano textures, ranging from lyrical nature painting to psychological drama.

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