In an album that reflects on both home and journeying, Slava Guerchovitch explores his roots and the intricate network of relationships connecting his chosen repertoire. These intimate and beautiful pieces by J.S. Bach, Ravel and Liszt are works with which Slava has a particular affinity and history: Bach’s almost improvisatory Capriccio for the departure of the beloved brother, BWV 992; Ravel’s subtle yet profoundly moving Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Liszt’s passionate Dante Sonata. They are Slava’s talismans and have stayed with him across his career to date, resulting in characterful and deeply-felt interpretations.
Slava Guerchovitch was 'Born in Monaco', and just as his homeland became a point of departure for the journeys that followed, so the repertoire on this album represents a series of departures from different angles and with different meanings. Bach describes the departure of his older brother to a new life in Sweden; Ravel mourns the departure of his friends who died in the middle of the First
