Un aria et 33 variations : comment aborde-t-on les « Variations Goldberg » ? Avec humilité. On se sent tout petit, presque minuscule, face à une musique bien haute mais dans un paysage avenant qui ...

The 18th-century Italian concerto had a profound influence on Bach. He obtained copies of concertos by Vivaldi, Torelli and the Marcello brothers and learnt their styles by arranging them for solo ...

Venu rendre visite à ses amis bruxellois, Alexandre Tharaud a accepté de faire un détour par nos studios pour nous parler de lui : " J'adore manger, me plonger dans une piscine d'eau chaude et lire", ...

Marin MARAIS - Suite en ré mineur. Jean-Guihen Queyras, violoncelle, et Alexandre Tharaud, piano . Jean-Sébastien BACH - Sonate en sol majeur BWV 1027. Jean-Guihen Queyras, violoncelle, et Alexandre ...

Les Violons make an interesting contrastto Alexandre Tharaud’s 1980s grand piano in this hybrid reading of Bach’s keyboard concertos. Bernard Labadie’sgut strings are all sharp exhalations,while ...

(6) Concertos, Movements: No. 5 in D minor, BWV596 (after Vivaldi, Op. 3/11) Alexandre Tharaud, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (16) Concertos, Movements: G, BWV973 (Vivaldi: Concerto, Op. 7/8 ...

There’s a lot of pain and suffering in “Amour,” the latest feature from Austrian director Michael Haneke. The award-winning movie, about an elderly couple facing mortality, can often be difficult to ...

American composer Nico Muhly was a big fan of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud when they met via social media through their mutual friend, choreographer-dancer Benjamin Millepied. Resulting from that ...

Tharaud/ Rotterdam PO/Nézet-Séguin/ Frankfurt RSO/ Ceccherini/ Les Violons du Roy/Lussier (Erato) Alexandre Tharaud performs three new piano concertos, of varying quality, but each with his ...