Credits:

Bertrand Chamayou

Warner Classics artists who lead the music world on the world stage gather one after another! The new series “Lumiere” presents masterpieces in high quality SACD hybrid Japanese vinyl. Sixteen beautiful lullabies that sway between sleep and awakening. The rich imagination and warm piano tones invite you to the entrance of dreams… An album of 16 lullabies on the theme of “sleep,” featuring a wide variety of lullabies from the 19th to 21st centuries. Bertrand Chamayou says that he is an insomniac himself, and that becoming a father of two has strengthened his desire to create an album of lullabies, something he has long wanted to do. The album includes famous lullabies by Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, and Grieg, as well as rarely performed lullabies by Balakirev, Busoni, Janacek, Lyapunov, and Villa-Lobos. The album also includes atonal lullabies by Helmut Lachenmann and works by female composer Mel Boni, making it an