In September 2016, Gionata and I took up the opportunity to play and record with a magnificent Steinway piano from 1952 which had belonged to the Tibor Varga foundation, in a dream-like place immersed in nature. It seemed fitting to celebrate our 15 years of artistic collaboration with Claude Debussy, a composer who was the genesis of our first encounter.
Poetry is the common thread. This recording is a homage, as much to the illustrious French composer as to the poets who inspired him.

Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

I. SYRINX
II. GOOD EVENING
III. HE CRIES IN MY HEART
IV.-IX. BILITIS (SIX ANCIENT EPIGRAPHS)*
X. ROMANCE – The Evaporated Soul
XI. GREEN
XII.-XIV. SONATA No. 3
XV. NIGHT OF STARS
XVI. THE SHADOW OF THE TREES
XVII. PRELUDE TO “THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN”

All adaptations and arrangements by Gionata Sgambaro (Klarthe Editions) except *: arrangement by Karl Lenski (Universal Music)

cover: Bruno Griparich @officina calligrafica
Gionata Sgambaro | flute
Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter | piano