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Pascal Amoyel

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Liszt & Alkan. Music for cello and piano

Franz Liszt - Charles-Valentin Alkan

Liszt & Alkan. Music for cello and piano

Harmonia Mundi, 2001

Emmanuelle Bertrand, cello
Pascal Amoyel, piano



Transcendental virtuosity.
The names of those two illustrious nineteenth-century pianists, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Franz Liszt, are generally associated with a style founded on transcendental virtuosity. Yet both the late works of Liszt, with their funereal and elegiac character, and the splendid Cello Sonata op.47 that Alkan wrote in the middle years of the century, reflect a shared ideal of purified expression and a poetic vision of instrumental music. Chamber music came to be the favoured vehicle for the manifestation of meditative, spiritual and experimental tendencies in the two artists, both of whom possessed a high degree of literary, musical and religious culture.
This title was released for the first time in 2001.

 

Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)
Concert sonata op.47 for piano and cello in E major 

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Works for cello and piano
[Première] Elégie
Deuxième Elégie 
La lugubre gondole ("Troisième" Elégie) 
Romance oubliée 
Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth


Press

Jacques Lefert, Journal du Jura, 2008

Comment parler de la perfection ? où deux musiciens se jouent avec apparente facilité des plus grandes difficultés techniques dans un climat de souriante connivence ou d’émotions partagées ? Comment dire les traits, les accords, les arpèges, la virtuosité fascinante, légère, aérienne, la musicalité toujours présente, l’énergie, le feu, mais l’extrême douceur aussi, les sautillés, le chant mélodieux, les explosions de joie, tout cela animé d’une juvénile ardeur ? 

Gramophone, 2008

Bertrand’s tone is able to balance the most explosive piano passages with non sense of strain, and in the Finale alla saltarella the spot-on ensemble playing is extremely exciting

Diapason, 2001

Emmanuelle Bertrand et Pascal Amoyel, passés par le répertoire moderne, déjouent tous les pièges du romantisme échevelé et de la surenchère démonstrative pour se mettre le plus simplement du monde à l'écoute d'une œuvre de pleine maturité. [...] En laissant s'épanouir les thèmes généreux de l'Allegro initial [...] ruisselant sur les harmonies modulantes les plus imprévisibles, comme un torrent vagabond. En épousant le balancement du second mouvement avec une extrême pudeur, avant le recueillement métaphysique de l'Adagio [...] En assumant enfin, mais sans histrionisme, le jeu de ce Finale alla saltarella où se redit la filiation pianistique lisztienne de ce virtuose parmi les virtuoses. Que deux jeunes solistes français ouvrent toutes grandes les fenêtres d'un répertoire ainsi revivifié appelle l'enthousiasme.

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Une leçon de piano avec Chopin

Have you ever dreamed of attending a piano lesson given by Chopin? By decoding the little-known method written by Chopin and…

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Have you ever dreamed of attending a piano lesson given by Chopin?

By decoding the little-known method written by Chopin and the testimonies of his rare pupils, Pascal Amoyel, himself of Franco-Polish descent, brings him back to life in an imaginary and moving dialogue...

Following the success of his previous one-man shows (Le Pianiste aux 50 doigts, Le Jour où j'ai rencontré Franz Liszt and Looking for Beethoven) in Paris, the rest of France and abroad, this season Pascal Amoyel presents his latest musical, Une leçon de piano avec Chopin: an expert, passionate and sensitive reading of Chopin's First Ballade as a musical treasure imagined and performed by the man who in 2010 was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in Warsaw by the prestigious Société Chopin for his complete Nocturnes. As a privileged witness to this intimate transmission from master to pupil, the audience is transported by the music and storytelling of the great pianist and Victoire de la Musique winner. A must-see nugget! Find out more

Pianist Pascal Amoyel is back at the Théâtre du Ranelagh for a series of performances, and we look forward to welcoming you!

Where?
Théatre Le Ranelagh 5, rue des Vignes 75016 Paris
Subways: La Muette or Passy

When?
Thursday, November 21st, 2024 to Sunday, January 12th, 2025
Thursday to Saturday at 8:30pm and Sunday at 5pm
Additional performance Tuesday December 31 at 8:30pm


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