Album Review/ Classical : Raynald Grenier’s ‘The Compilation Album’

Raynald Grenier is a pianist and composer with worlds swirling within him. Each of his songs build worlds out of human emotions and experiences, creating a landscape that is both immense and simple. Influenced by classical styles, he lets it inform his neoclassicals, creating ambiences that are remarkable. His latest release is ‘The Compilation Album’, a collection that holds the best of his life’s work. Each composition brings his many musings to life, romanticising it, decorating it, and immortalising it. 

‘Dolci Momenti’ opens the album. The instrumentals create an inflating ambience. While the piano melodies set the stage, the violins build on it with a sentimental intensity. While this one is soft and contemplative, ‘The Fortress’ is melancholic, a flat landscape that is serene like silent grief. 

Each song holds the emotion with so much delicate grace and is yet authentic. In ‘Doux Instant’ is a piano piece that is light and airy, carrying dollops of time from one moment to another; keeping the listening in the present. With deeper instrumental timber and severe tones, the artist dives into ‘Nostalgia’. These heavy and reminiscing tones are carried in ‘Requiem’. Detailed with ornate and angelic flows, they create a sort of divine air, like that of old churches in the morning, gleaming with heavenly aura. 

In the ‘Wrath of the Gods’, he ushers in a more theatrical flair. ‘Adagio en Sol Mineur’ is a deeply evocative instrument that quivers with feeling and emotion. ‘Lieder’ is an opera, so moving that you’ll become weak in your knees. And with this he ebbs into the epilogue, a meaningful conclusion that keeps you swaying in its lithe air and atmosphere. Listen Now! 

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The album is available for streaming on popular sites like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music! 

You can listen to ‘The Compilation Album’ by Raynald Grenier here -