WITHIN & WITHOUT - Homage to Rakhmaninov

WITHIN & WITHOUT - Homage to Rakhmaninov (CVLD330)

Edoardo Brotto, piano

01 - Farewell my Dreams Op.9,  6:42
02 - Siberian Blizzard Op.10, 11:31
03 - Waltz of the Fairies Op.11,  7:54
04 - Dusk Spirits Op.12,  11:53
05 - Gloomy Sparks Op.16,  11:47
06 - The Devil in Love Op.14,  15:33

total time: 65:22

All compositions by Edoardo Brotto

88kHz / 24bit digital recording made at Magister Area Recording, Preganziol, Italy, on September 15, 16, 2020. Analog mix & mastering made at Velut Luna Studio, Padova, Italy, on October 17, 2020

Production: VELUT LUNA
Executive producer: Marco Lincetto
Musical producer: Edoardo Brotto
Recording, mix & mastering engineer: Marco Lincetto
Cover photo: Edoardo Brotto
Inside photo: Claudio Dalla Costa
Design: Francesca Brotto

Edoardo Brotto plays on STEINWAY & SONS D274 CONCERT GRANDPIANO, serial number: 592126 granted,  tuned and prepared by Silvano Zanta
Marco Lincetto choose RIBERA R12 tube microphones, Millennia Media HV 3C mic preaplifier, and Rupert Neve Design 5059 summing mix

This album is my homage to a composer and pianist whom I deeply admire, Sergei Rakhmaninov. All works presented here have been inspired by the notion of beauty in the broadest sense, of nature, of a face, of the scent of winter wind. An assiduous quest for musical beauty, of the ideal harmony for a particular moment, of form and structural logic, of contrasts, of melody and lively figuration have led me on a path of meticulous detail upon which I have frequently altered course, leaning towards the uncertainty of the new. Each piece is realised in such a manner as to depict the titular image in its poetic entirety. As is usual to my artistic process, none of these works have been notated; rather, they have been fully worked out in my mind. This process allows me to visualise both small and large ideas that constitute a work as tiles to be played with, moved and recombined according to spontaneous preference, and thus resulting in a vast number of potential manifestations. From such a vantage point, similar to a mountain peak or atop a skyscraper, I am able to arrange elements to conform to the most beautiful overarching shape.

Edoardo Brotto