Debussy in Resonance Joanna Goodale

• Claude Debussy: Rêverie, L. 68:
• 1 Debussy: Rêverie, L. 68 04:02
• Joanna Goodale: Ocean Origin:
• 2 Goodale: Ocean Origin 04:07
• Claude Debussy: Préludes, Premier Livre, L. 117:
• 3 Debussy: Préludes, Premier Livre, L. 117: X. La Cathédrale Engloutie 06:04
• Images, Première serie, L. 110:
• 4 Debussy: Images, Première serie, L. 110: I. Reflets dans l'eau 05:09
• Joanna Goodale: Metal Moon:
• 5 Goodale: Metal Moon 01:56
• Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75:
• 6 Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune 04:53
• Children's Corner, L. 113:
• 7 Debussy: Children's Corner, L. 113: IV. The Snow is Dancing 02:26
• Joanna Goodale: Still Snow:
• 8 Goodale: Still Snow 03:33
• Claude Debussy: Estampes, L. 100:
• 9 Debussy: Estampes, L. 100: III. Jardins sous la pluie 03:57
• Estampes, L. 100:
• 10 Debussy: Estampes, L. 100: I. Pagodes 05:21
• Joanna Goodale: Giddy Gamelan:
• 11 Goodale: Giddy Gamelan 04:26
• Claude Debussy: Images, Deuxième Série, L. 111:
• 12 Debussy: Images, Deuxième Série, L. 111: II. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut 05:03
• Joanna Goodale: Debussy in Resonance:
• 13 Goodale: Debussy in Resonance 05:11
• Total Runtime 56:08

Info for Debussy in Resonance

Conceived in the spring of 2020, Debussy in Resonance wishes to offer a space to nourish the wonder and the sensory imagination of Nature while questioning the place of humans within it. Faced with the fast extinction of species, the scarcity of water sources and the palpable uneasiness in modern societies, I feel the desire to cultivate this feeling of belonging to Nature, inspiring gratitude, joy and the desire to take care of the living. By listening to the ecosystem, by observing its elements and its cycles, a source of wisdom rich in metaphors resonates deep within me.

Debussy In Resonance was recorded in 2021 by Joanna Goodale at the famous Salle de Musique de la Chaux-de-Fonds, thanks to the support of the RTS, the Fondation Tempo, Perspectives Musiques, and the crowdfunding on WeMakeIt.

For this second album, the pianist collaborated with Constantin Pilavios to release a trailer and provide the audience with images from Debussy’s music interpretation.

Joanna Goodale, piano, gongs, sound bowls

Joanna Goodale
Born into a British-Turkish family, Joanna Goodale is a French pianist with an eclectic and creative identity, opening up the classical repertoire to traditional world music and to her own comprovisations.​

Her first concept-album ​« Bach in a Circle » uniting Bach’s music with her own arrangements of Sufi chants (Turkey / Iran) will be out in 2019 with ​Label Paraty ​and with the support of the Fondation Tempo​, the ​Fondation Engelberts​, the ​Swiss Radio RTS Espace 2.

She has been invited to perform in Switzerland, in France, in Germany, in Turkey, in Spain and in the United Kingdom. Graduate of a ​Master of Arts in Piano (Geneva) ​and a ​Master of Arts in Anthropology (London)​, she has benefitted from the support of the ​Fondation L’ABRI in Geneva and of the advice of internationally renowned pianists ​such as Cedric ​Pescia​, Menahem ​Pressler and Anne ​Queffélec​.

Passionate about multidisciplinary projects, she forms ​FRACTALES piano-duo with ​Anna Benzakoun​, collaborates with Sufi dancer ​Rana Gorgani ​in BACH TO SUFI DANCE, with ​Leili Anvar for poetry-music concerts around mystic litterature, and with Kora player Sankoum Cissokho around Mandinka music.

Born in Switzerland, Joanna Goodale studied at the Music Conservatory of Geneva where her musical talent and perfect pitch were quickly noticed. She continued her studies at the ​Haute Ecole de Musique (HEM) de Genève with Dominique ​Weber​, in the lineage of Leon Fleisher. Joanna is also specialised in piano pedagogy (​Master​) and has been teaching passionately for over a decade. She runs workshops on improvisation and prepared piano in schools, festivals and on the fringes of her concerts.

Deeply convinced that music can transcend borders and touch the sublime, she invites her public to enter in communion with sound and silence in a space-time of rare intensity.

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