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Festival Cully Classique 2013
Diffusion du concert donné le 23 juin 2013 au Temple de Cully, dans le cadre du Festival Cully Classique 2013.Au programme, des pages de Ligeti, Gubaydulina, Brahms et Chostakovitch.Avec:Quatuor Terpsycordes :Girolamo Bottiglieri, violon Raya Raytcheva, violonCaroline Cohen Adad, alto François Grin, violoncellePlam...
La pochette du Volume VI de l'intégrale de l'oeuvre de Schumann - partagée entre l'Irlandais Finghin Collins (Volumes I et III), l'Italien Francesco Piemontesi (IV) et le Franco-Suisse Cédric Pescia (II, V et VI) - ne dit rien des précédents albums. Mais la première phrase du texte d'introduction nous apprend que la série arrive ici à son terme....
Charl Du Plessis Trio first formed in 2006 has performed in a great variety of styles including classical, jazz and rock.
The Trio consists of Charl du Plessis as pianist, Hugo Radyn on drums, and Werner Spies is the trio’s bassist. Baroqueswing is the Trio’s sixth and most recent album, featuring arrangements based on works by Bach, Gluck, Viva...
In 2006 the Swiss company Claves embarked on a collaboration with the Clara Haskil Competition to record all the piano music of Schumann. To date, Volumes 1 and 3, played by Finghin Collins, Vol 4 by Francesco Pietmontesi, Vols 2 and 5 and now Vol 6 all by Cédric Pescia have appeared. Pescia’s discography is already remarkably broad, ranging fro...
A little over ten years ago, the Swiss record label Claves set out to record Robert Schumann’s complete works for piano music. Rather unusually, the label has used not one, but three pianists for the recordings thus far: Finghin Collins (Vols 1 and 3), Francesco Piemontesi (Vol 4), and Cédric Pescia (Vols 2, 5 and now Vol 6). I hope Pescia will ...
The Stanford discography is steadily growing, yet when these performers gave the Second Piano Concerto its belated Proms première in 2008, the response suggested that the London critics still lived back in the dark age when Stanford was merely an Interesting Historical Figure, not a composer that one might seriously perform and listen to. Strang...
Programmes of Robert and Clara Schumann are becoming increasingly popular these days, and Nurit Stark and Cédric Pescia, Israeli and Swiss respectively, present an imaginative menu that focuses on the years 1851 (Robert) and 1853 (Clara). They launch into Robert’s Second Violin Sonata with great purpose and energy, its tumult well caught without...
Finghin Collins's first volume in Claves's complete cycle of Schumann's piano music (A/06) may be a hard act to follow but in Cédric Pescia, a young French-Swiss pianist, the label has chosen well. Vivacious, lucid and affectionate, all his performances are unfailingly musical. He plays Album for the Young without a hint of condescension but wit...
Enescu’s early string Octet (completed 1900) displays a dizzying mixture of qualities – exuberance, busyness, contrapuntal complexity, thematic richness and a sweep that suggests a burgeoning creative talent on a roll. I’m often reminded of the young Korngold save that the teenage Enescu’s more prolix style makes for longer musical sentences and...
Do you know Charles Villiers Stanford? If not, here is a wonderful opportunity to fill this gap: Irish pianist Finghin Collins (author of several Claves albums, among which volumes 1 and 3 of the Schumann collection) and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra co-sign with the Swiss label a magnificent recording completely dedicated to this…. Irish ...
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