Famous conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin is also a versatile pianist. In Summer 2020, when the pandemic turned down most of the cultural life all over the world, he found, as he describes it, "kind of a salvation" in playing the piano – and recorded his very first piano solo album, inspired also by the memory of his admired teacher Anisia Campos who had passed away that year. Playing the piano "gave me an opportunity for introspection, something that I think most of us did – not only artists and musicians, but every human being – recalibrating our priorities, what our purpose is in life, and what our aspirations are," says Nézet-Séguin about the project. However, "now that I'm a conductor, when I go back to my instrument I especially want to find the intimacy and the softer colors, the soothing ones and also the painful ones, the unknown areas where composers go."
1. No. 10. La cathédrale engloutie
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturnes, Op. 37
2. No. 1 in G Minor. Andante sostenuto
Johannes Brahms - 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79
3. No. 2 in G Minor
4 Piano Pieces, Op. 119
5. No. 1 in B Minor. Intermezzo. Adagio
Domenico Scarlatti
5. Keyboard Sonata in B Minor, Kk. 87
Sergei Rachmaninov - Moments Musicaux, Op. 16
6. No. 3 in B Minor. Andante cantabile
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
7. Adagio in B Minor, K. 540
Éric Champagne
8. D'après Hopper
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913
9. I. Allegro
10. II. Adagio
11. III. Presto. Fuga
12. IV. Adagio - Andante
13. V. Allegro e Presto. Fuga
Dmitri Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 / No. 1 in C Major
14. I. Prelude
15. II. Fugue
Franz Schubert - 4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899
16. No. 1 in C Minor. Allegro molto moderato
Luciano Berio- 6 Encores
17. III. Wasserklavier
Joseph Haydn - Sonate pour piano No. 33 en ut mineur Hob XVI:20
18. I. Moderato
19. II. Andante con moto
20. III. Finale: Allegro
Claude Debussy - Children's Corner, L. 113
21. V. The Little Shepherd
