ASD - Arts-Scène Diffusion

Pascal Amoyel

PIANO

Henri Dutilleux - Claude Debussy

Tout un monde lointain

Harmonia Mundi, 2015

Emmanuelle Bertrand cello
Pascal Amoyel piano
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, dir. James Gaffigan

On the occasion of the centenary of Henri Dutilleux, Emmanuelle Bertrand honors one of her greatest masters by recording the two masterpieces that he devoted to the cello. The Sonata by Debussy, created a few months before the birth of Dutilleux, resonates as the source of a renewed language over the twentieth century. A sound and poetic journey that describes a distant world… Tout un monde lointain

Press

Kate Molleson, The Guardian, 3rd December 2015

James Gaffigan and the Lucerne orchestra tread that tricky line in Dutilleux between sensuous imagery and intense technical refinement, while Emmanuelle Bertrand makes stunning sounds on her cello – now breathy and exquisite, now deep and spicy. The disc opens with Dutilleux’s mystical little solo Strophes and contains a gleaming performance of Debussy’s Cello Sonata from Bertrand and pianist Pascal Amoyel. Read full article

01.05

Land of the rising sun

Pascal Amoyel is once again the guest of La Folle Journée du Japon, this time with his show Le jour…

Pascal Amoyel is once again the guest of La Folle Journée du Japon, this time with his show Le jour où j'ai rencontré Franz Liszt for 2 performances this week in Tokyo:
It is often said that the life of Franz Liszt is like a novel... That's probably a far cry from his extraordinary destiny! He was history's first great "star", a virtuoso adored throughout Europe, the inventor of the recital, a seducer of a thousand conquests and a fervent believer, but he was also the most visionary composer of his time, still largely unknown today. At the height of his fame, at the age of 35, he surprised the world with a decision that turned his life upside down...

With music by BACH, MOZART, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, SCHUMANN, LISZT etc., Pascal Amoyel invites us to meet "his" Franz Liszt, aged 7 at the time, living in a small town in Hungary, with the wonder of a child's eyes... The audience travels alongside them in a unique show combining music, theater and... magic. A musical creation of rare intensity!

Click here to view the show teaser.