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Bertrand Chamayou

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Erasing the presence of the hammer and letting the piano singmaster pianist Bertrand Chamayou immerses himself deeply in these 48 diaries without lyrics, evoking memories as enduring as old photographs in this sublime complete recording of *Songs Without Words*.Mendelssohns *Song Without Words* is famous, but fewer than 10 of the 48 pieces are ever performed in concert, says Bertrand Chamayou. Having earned high acclaim for his recordings of Messiaen and John Cage, he has now poured his keen imagination into this two-CD seta collection of miniatures that has continued to captivate audiences for nearly 200 years, yet for which complete recordings by leading pianists remain relatively scarce.This work is like a diary that the composer wrote intermittently over a period of 16 years, from 1829 to 1845, says Chamayou. Although it does not deal with extreme emotions, its expressive and technical