Teo Gheorghiu - Gioia (2026) [Hi-Res]

FRIBOURG – LEIPZIG – COPENHAGEN : THE NORTH AND ITS CHILDLIKE FRESHNESS
No bicycle journey this time – unlike Duende in 2020 (which took Teo Gheorghiu to the Spain of Albéniz and the France of Debussy – Claves CD 3021), or Roots two years later (in search of paternal roots through the music of Enescu, Bartók and Mussorgsky – CD 3052). Instead, a third cardinal point guides this new discographic voyage: the North. First, the nearby Fribourg of Olivier Lattion – also Gheorghiu’s home since 2018. Then, Romantic Germany – embodied by Robert Schumann. Finally, the “true” North – of fjords and northern lights – through Edvard Grieg. At the close of the 19th century, Grieg – as a Norwegian – was seeking his own voice among the nations of Europe, and did not hesitate to sharpen it by drawing on the musical wells of the Old Continent (studying in Leipzig under Carl Reinecke and Ignaz Moscheles). A shifting thread, then – but one that, beyond geography, tells stories: of Teo Gheorghiu’s intimate bond with each of the three works on this album – stories of life, friendship, and (inevitably!) nature.