Back Home with the Moon Peter Jablonski

• Christian Schittenhelm (b. 1963):
• 1 Schittenhelm: Berceuse mauve 01:54
• 2 Schittenhelm: Valse naïve 01:50
• 3 Schittenhelm: Simply Yes 03:16
• 4 Schittenhelm: Valse de rien 01:40
• 5 Schittenhelm: Back Home with the Moon 04:00
• 6 Schittenhelm: Duo 01:26
• 7 Schittenhelm: Roof and Sky 02:42
• 8 Schittenhelm: Alone 03:54
• 9 Schittenhelm: A Bad E Could Be the Best 03:38
• 10 Schittenhelm: After Me the Storm 03:45
• 11 Schittenhelm: Zebra Piano 03:54
• 12 Schittenhelm: Stellar 01:18
• 13 Schittenhelm: The Algot Waltz 03:54
• 14 Schittenhelm: Quadratures 02:50
• 15 Schittenhelm: Impression de lièvre 01:22
• 16 Schittenhelm: Poème de l'inutile 01:20
• 17 Schittenhelm: Levitation 02:14
• Total Runtime 44:57

Info for Back Home with the Moon

The album "Back Home with the Moon" comprises 17 pieces written by the French composer Christian Schittenhelm for the Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski. The pieces, recorded for the first time, are the fruit of their musical and artistic encounter and shed a new light on Peter Jablonski's piano art: lightness and sensitivity allow the music to subliminally oscillate between romanticism and jazz.

Peter Jablonski, piano

Peter Jablonski
is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name a few.

He has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. Hailed an ‘unconventional virtuoso’ (Present Arts), during his three-decade-long career he developed a diverse repertoire that includes works by Barber, Gershwin, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Copland, Stenhammar, with most recent additions of such Scandinavian and European composers as Valborg Aulin, Elfrida Andrée, Laura Netzel, Johanna Müller-Hermann, and Alexey Stanchinsky.

He worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt, and had a number of works composed for, and dedicated to him, including Wojciech Kilar’s Piano Concerto, for which he won the Orpheus award for the world premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. He remains a supporter of today’s composers and regularly gives world premieres of new works, together with those that have been neglected by music history.

Jablonski’s extensive discography includes recordings he has made for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Altara, Octavia, and Ondine labels. He received numerous awards for his recordings, which include the Edison award for best concerto recording of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Lutoslawski’s Paganini Rhapsody with Ashkenazy and RPO for Decca. He was presented with the Grammophone Classical Music Award for his Deutsche Grammophone recording of works by Cécile Chaminade with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg.

Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. He is also the winner of a prestigious prize Svenskar i Världen (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren.

Booklet for Back Home with the Moon