Claire-Marie Le Guay
PIANORECITAL
- Grand Piano
- 100% Bach
- Mozart, but not only! Participatory concert
- Thierry Escaich, a French legacy
- Thierry Escaich, baroque and romantic
- Re-enchantment
DUET
- With cellist François Salque
- With flutist Magali Mosnier
- With organist and composer Thierry Escaich
- With violinist Amaury Coeytaux
MUSIC AND LETTERS
- Living with Bach, music and words
- Conversation with François Busnel
- It is at night that it is beautiful to believe in the light
- Amours heureuses, Aragon et Liszt
MUSIC & DANCE
TRIO
- With the violinist Amaury Coeytaux et cellist François Salque
- In trio with Magali Mosnier, flute and François Salque, cello
FAMILY SHOW
REPERTOIRE
Living with Bach, music and words
With Erik Orsenna, from the Académie française
To say that the Bach family loved music would be an understatement. From the mid-16th century onwards, children and parents, men and women – everyone sang, played and composed. But what is love, if it is not put into practice?
Two women, two wives, brightened Johann Sebastian’s life: Maria Barbara, his young cousin, and Anna Magdalena, his most ardent admirer.
But they are far from being the only ones. For nearly three hundred years, how many of us have lived with Bach, danced with Bach, prayed with Bach, improvised with Bach, lived together and better thanks to Bach?
Claire-Marie Le Guay is a pianist and author; Erik Orsenna is a writer, a music lover, and took up the piano ten years ago. Together they have written a book: ‘Que la joie demeure, Vivre avec Bach’ (published by Albin Michel, 2026).
Through music and words, they bring to life the work that Bach gave to the world.
What is art if it doesn't elevate life, and sometimes repair it?
A truly special event where words and music come together to make Bach’s music resonate deep within us.
Running time: 1h15, without intermission
BACH
Partitas, Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasy, Chorales
VIVALDI-BACH
Concertos and other works, excerpts
Press
Aude Giger, Lire Magazine, avril 2026
Dans un style très fluide et un dialogue qui fait écho à l’art du contrepoint du maître, tous deux rendent ce monument de la composition plus intime et familier. Un éloge de la musique et de l’amitié, à lire en écoutant l’enregistrement de 1977 par Alfred Brendel des œuvres de Bach, autour duquel Claire-Marie Le Guay a construit le « noyau dur » de son répertoire.
Discography
Que la joie demeure - Vivre avec Bach
Albin Michel, 2026
‘It might be a cantata or a chorale, on a Sunday, in a church or a synagogue. Or, heard somewhere on the radio, the dancing movement of a partita, a moving excerpt from a Passion. And just like that, Bach has entered your soul and will never leave you. A pianist and a writer, recounting Bach’s life, wonder how, day after day, he changed theirs. And what is this peace, this joy, that they owe to him. Once upon a time, over three hundred years ago, in the heart of Germany, there was the descendant of a baker. Once upon a time, there was this music that has never ceased to keep us in high and fraternal company. ” – Erik Orsenna
The writer Erik Orsenna, storyteller of Vivaldi and Beethoven, and the pianist Claire-Marie Le Guay take us on a journey through Bach’s world.
Concerts
Photos
Photo Denis Félix
Photo Denis Félix
Videos
Erik Orsenna - TV5 Monde