Great Performers 2014 by Melbourne Recital Centre

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M A R Y VA L L E N T I N E , A O CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, M E L B O U R N E R E C I TA L C E N T R E

Melbourne Recital Centre’s Great Performers has become an essential part of the city’s musical calendar. With its unique focus on international recitalists, Great Performers offers nine occasions to hear the world’s best musicians in the intimacy of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Musicians often remark upon the immediacy and clarity of the sound, and also about the way they feel so close and connected to audiences here. It is this two-way engagement that inspires great performances. In 2014, we are delighted to welcome back some musicians who have already made big impressions on Melbourne’s music-lovers. Maxim Rysanov

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gave superb concerts with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in 2012 and now returns to perform soul-baring viola music by Schumann and Shostakovich. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein astonished us with her searing performance with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in 2013, and now we’ll hear her solo in powerful works by Kodály and Bach. Nicolas Hodges, too, will be familiar to fans of contemporary piano music, and he’ll win you over with his Beethoven and Debussy in 2014.

Making their debuts are some musicians we’ve wanted to present for several years: violinist Daniel Hope, whose concerts are always treats for the heart and mind; pianists, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, a master colourist, and the innovative Joanna MacGregor. We’ll introduce the next generation of stars too. Soprano Julia Lezhneva is being compared to Cecilia Bartoli for her flawless technique, dramatic sensibility and stage presence. Karen Gomyo and her Stradivarius have the musicworld buzzing, she’s simply one of the most accomplished and elegant violinists around. The piano duo strikes back – this time it’s 20-somethings, Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano – with rafter-shaking virtuoso versions of orchestral

masterpieces including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, among others. Traditional and provocative, operatic and earthy, this is the most colourful, diverse and delightful Great Performers season yet. Purchasing season tickets is the easiest way to support the Centre and save, plus you’ll have access to the best seats in the house. I look forward to seeing you at these wonderful concerts at Australia’s best place to hear.

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Nine intimate evenings to transcend the everyday. Escape into a kaleidoscope of feeling, colour and sound.

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VIOLIN

7.30PM TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY _

A Celebration of Joseph Joachim _

A TRIBUTE TO A GREAT VIRTUOSO OF THE PAST FROM ONE OF TODAY’S MOST CELEBRATED VIOLINISTS.

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VIOLIN “A violinist of probing intellect and commanding style.” NEW YORK TIMES

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DANIEL HOPE

One of the most lauded British musicians of his generation, Hope has forged a career which balances popular success and personal expression without compromising the integrity of either. In 2012 he recorded a ‘remixed’ Four Seasons and a CD inspired by the music of the spheres, bringing new music and old to a broader public. Like his mentor, Yehudi Menuhin, Daniel Hope is a communicator who happens to be a virtuoso, and a musician passionately interested in the music of other cultures and other times.

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Of all the great violinists of the 19th century, Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) stands apart for the role he played in expanding the repertoire and the expressive richness of his instrument. The dedicatee of the violin concertos of Schumann, Dvo ák, Bruch and Brahms, and advocate of Bach’s and Beethoven’s violin works, Joachim was one of the greatest musical catalysts and collaborators of his era, and not a bad composer himself. Daniel Hope has devised an evening of music inspired by Joachim, including Brahms’s intensely personal sonata and the bracing ardour of a folk-tinged sonata by Joachim’s friend Grieg. Expect full-throated lyricism, virtuoso fire and visionary musicianship to satisfy every red-blooded Romantic.

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Mr Hope's associate artist will be confirmed in late 2013 _ TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

A Celebration of Joseph Joachim BRAHMS Scherzo from the F-A-E Sonata CLARA SCHUMANN Romanze, Op. 22, No.1 BRAHMS Violin Sonata No.1 in G, Op.78 MENDELSSOHN Two Songs: ‘Auf Flügeln des Gesanges’ and ‘Hexenlied’ JOACHIM Romanze Op.2, No.1 GRIEG Violin Sonata No.3 in C minor, Op.45

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Daniel Hope’s recitals are adventures in music. Whether exploring familiar territory or embarking on new horizons, Hope takes us on emotionally exhilarating journeys.

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SOPRANO

JU IA EZHNEVA

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7.30PM WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH _

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“Julia Lezhneva combines flawless technique with emotional veracity.”

Baroque. Bel Canto. Bravura. _

A THRILLING NEW VOICE IN SPARKLING, SOARING SONG.

THE GUARDIAN

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JULIA LEZHNEVA soprano _ WITH:

Michael Antoneko, piano _ D AT E :

WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

Baroque. Bel Canto. Bravura. VIVALDI ‘In furore’ from Motet: In furore justissimae irae, RV 626 HANDEL ‘O nox dulcis’ from Motet: Saeviat tellus inter rigores, HWV 240 PORPORA ‘Care Deus cordi amantis’ from Motet: In caelo stelle clare MOZART ‘Tu virginum corona... Alleluia’ from Motet: Exsultate, jubilate, K.165 ROSSINI ‘La Regata Veneziana’ BELLINI ‘Ma rendi pur contento’ SCHUBERT Impromptu in G-flat, Op.90, No.3

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Such gasps are regularly heard at Lezhneva’s concerts. The 23-year-old soprano has already earned a world-wide reputation for superb performances of the most intricate and dazzling repertoire from the Baroque to the stratospheric vocal acrobatics of bel canto opera. Her astonishing musical maturity saw Lezhneva make her recording debut at 18 with luminary period music conductor Marc Minkowski, and launched a precocious international career. She is a talent in the ascendant.

Lezhneva’s voice and temperament are perfectly suited to the spectacle and emotion of the Baroque masters. Vivaldi, Handel and Porpora use all of the techniques of opera in their sacred music – runs, roulades, trills and exquisite melody – to move and awe the congregation. Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate is one of the purest expressions of joy in the repertoire. Lezhneva’s emotional intelligence makes her one of the most soughtafter Rossini heroines on the scene, revealing the heart beneath the vocal fireworks.

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ROSSINI ‘Tanti affeti’ from La Donna del Lago

In Italy there’s a word for Julia Lezhneva’s impetuous virtuosity: bravura. It’s bravura which makes audiences gasp with astonished delight when a singer jumps the most difficult technical and musical hurdles.

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“A first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity.” CHICAGO TRIBUNE

7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH _

The Devil’s Trill _

A DEVILISHLY GOOD DUO PLAY VIRTUOSO SHOWSTOPPERS FROM ROMANTIC ITALY.

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Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo’s gifts have singled her out as an artist to watch, equally capable of dazzling fingerwork as soaring lyricism, “Fueled,” in the words of one critic, “by abundant talent, but not by a vain display of technique.”

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WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

The diabolically difficult music of Paganini holds no terrors for Gomyo and Grigoryan. Exploring the great virtuoso’s little-known works for the unusual and gorgeous combination of violin and guitar, they recreate the atmosphere of the plushest and most fashionable salons of 19th century Italy. Of course, the Italian flair for the fantastic goes back to the Baroque of Vivaldi whose

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music echoes the ornate splendour of Venice. There’s also a touch of black magic about this music. Rumour had it that both Paganini and Tartini were in league with the Devil. The legend of Giuseppe Tartini’s Sonata in G minor relates that Satan appeared in a dream to perform this eerie piece for the composer, who awoke and transcribed it. Niccolo Paganini’s infernally amazing talent extended from the violin to the guitar and the viola, and his outré appearance and demeanour only increased his marketability. Gomyo performs some of his famous solo Caprices – full of outrageous effects – and with Grigoryan, the elegant and affable duos he composed to beguile both audiences and musicians.

The Devil’s Trill VIVALDI Violin sonata No.2 in A, RV 31 TARTINI Violin sonata in G minor, ‘Devil’s Trill’ PAGANINI Centone di Sonate for violin and guitar, Op.64, No.1 From 24 Caprices for solo violin. Op.1: No.13, No.6, No.24 GIULIANI Rossiniana for solo guitar, Op.119, No.1 PAGANINI Sonata for violin and guitar in A, Op.2, No.1 Romanza from Grand Sonata for violin and guitar, Op.53 The Carnival of Venice, Op.10

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Born in Tokyo and raised in Montreal and New York, Gomyo is a born globetrotter, her recent travels taking in the major orchestras of Europe and festivals around the world. On this tour, she makes her Australian debut. Her partner in this recital is Melbourne’s Slava Grigoryan, a musician whose versatility and flair have made him a cross-over star.

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PIANO

7.30PM TUESDAY 1 APRIL _

Musical Toys _

MYSTICISM AND MAGIC AT THE KEYBOARD FROM BACH AND BIRDS BY ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE MUSICIANS ON THE SCENE.

“Joanna MacGregor is one of contemporary music’s great individualists, a uniquely enlivening presence who slices her way through all the barriers she sees as false and limiting.” THE INDEPENDENT (UK)

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JOANNA MACGREGOR piano _ D AT E :

TUESDAY 1 APRIL, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

Musical Toys J.S. BACH The Well-Tempered Keyboard Book I - Selections SHOSTAKOVICH 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87 - Selections GUBAIDULINA Musical Toys Works by RAVEL, DAQUIN, COUPERIN, MESSIAEN, BIRTWISTLE and PIAZZOLLA

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While a champion of living composers, J.S. Bach has been the focus of her recent work: “Of course, Bach is the godfather of everything for me, in the mafia sense as well as anything else,” she says. Bach’s daring exploration of the 24 major and minor keys is mystical and joyous, fanciful and rigorous, and the cornerstone of the pianist’s art. Inspired by Bach’s example, Shostakovich pushed the genre into the realms of deeply personal emotion, from bleak despair to giddy exuberance and created an unequivocal

20th century masterpiece. In contrast to Shostakovich’s searing intensity, Gubaidulina’s set of miniature Musical Toys is an evocation of childhood wonder: magical but sometimes a little scary. In the same innocent mode, composers have tried to capture the sounds of birds and nature in their music since music began. From the elegant Baroque cuckoos and nightingales of Daquin and Couperin to the wild and strange blackbirds of Messiaen, MacGregor creates an aviary in the concert hall.

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This concert is also part of the 2014 Metropolis New Music Festival

Joanna MacGregor has forged a brilliant career as a provocateuse at the keyboard and as a festival director. The laterallythinking performer is known for weaving together surprising and apt pieces into fascinating concerts, delivered with passion, intelligence and brilliant technique.

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VIOLA

“This amazing young artist looks like giving the viola’s profile a definite boost.” THE TELEGRAPH (UK)

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7.30PM TUESDAY 17 JUNE _ GRE AT PERFORMERS

The Romantic and Russian Viola _

THE VIOLA’S EXQUISITE CHARACTER SHINES IN POWERFUL WORKS PLAYED BY A MASTER.

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The viola’s eloquent voice is rarely heard on its own, but in Maxim Rysanov’s hands, this most subtle and expressive of instruments takes centre-stage. The award-winning Ukrainian musician took up the viola because there weren’t many players – a strategy which has made him one of the most in-demand musicians in the business.

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TUESDAY 17 JUNE, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

Violists generally have to borrow their repertoire from other instruments, picking the best of the violin and cello works to transcribe. Rysanov has chosen two archetypal Romantic works to demonstrate the viola’s warm and lyrical qualities. Schubert’s compact Sonatina packs a great deal of charming song into just

15 minutes, with more than a nod towards Mozart. The kaleidoscopic drama of Schumann’s A-minor violin sonata translates perfectly to the viola, and to a player ready to investigate the emotional complexities of the piece. What musician could resist the hummable melodies of Prokofiev’s beloved Romeo and Juliet? An inventive arrangement for viola and piano shows off the instrument’s suave brilliance. Shostakovich’s viola sonata is a masterpiece that deserves a wider audience. Completed a month before Shostakovich’s death, the sonata has the serene resignation and simplicity of the last sad words of a troubled life.

The Romantic and Russian Viola SCHUBERT (transcribed Rysanov) Sonatina No.3 in G minor, D.408 SCHUMANN (transcribed Katims) Sonata for viola and piano No.1 in A minor, Op.105 PROKOFIEV (transcribed Borisovsky) Three pieces from Romeo & Juliet SHOSTAKOVICH Sonata for viola and piano, Op.147

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It helps that he is also a player of the highest calibre, as Melbourne audiences discovered when he appeared with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra at the Recital Centre in 2011. Dynamic and charismatic, Rysanov is the best possible advocate for his soulful instrument.

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PIANO

7.30PM WEDNESDAY 2 JULY _

The Rite of Spring _

AN ORCHESTRAL SPECTACULAR FOR FOUR HANDS AND TWO DAZZLING TALENTS.

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PIANO DUO “This was music-making of the highest order.” LONDON EVENING STANDARD (OT T )

“Tristano’s sound is a supremely confident one, make by an artist who’s not afraid to experiment.”

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TIME OUT LONDON ( T RISTANO)

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ALICE SARA OTT & FRANCESCO TRISTANO piano duo _ D AT E :

WEDNESDAY 2 JULY, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

The Rite of Spring RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op.35: ‘The Kalendar Prince’ STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring RAVEL La Valse TRISTANO New Work

At 24, Ott already has major repertoire on record and a busy international schedule, giving performances that critics call ‘elegant’, ‘vibrant’ and ‘superbly accomplished’. Tristano is equally at home with electronic dance music as he is with Bach, with an open-minded approach to music making that has won over fans of techno and classical music alike. The combination of the two promises a meeting of strong minds and spectacular music-making that is already generating buzz.

The music they have chosen is bold and big: orchestral epics rendered on two pianos. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was transcribed for piano duo by the composer himself. Heard on keyboards, its primal harmonies and rhythms are all the more sinewy and visceral, the melodies rendered in high definition, and it’s an athletic showpiece for the pianists. Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel also transcribed some of their signature orchestral works for this intimate medium, allowing audiences a fascinating insight into the inner workings of the music, and giving players repertoire that is as challenging as it is fun.

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Individually, Alica Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano are two of their generation’s brightest young stars. Together, they are a pianistic dream team.

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CELLO

A ISA WEI ERSTEIN CELLO

“Whatever she plays sounds custom-composed for her, as if she has a natural affinity with everything.” NEW YORK MAGAZINE

7.30PM TUESDAY 8 JULY _

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PASSIONATE, DIRECT AND POWERFUL – THE SOLO CELLO OF ALISA WEILERSTEIN.

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Alisa Weilerstein makes an unforgettable impression. The immense, impassioned sound she creates and her body and soul commitment to the music have astonished audiences around the world.

ALISA WEILERSTEIN cello _ D AT E :

TUESDAY 8 JULY, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

Still in her early-30s, Weilersten already has a stellar career, been the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius’ fellowship, and recorded the Elgar Cello Concerto under the authoritative baton of Daniel Barenboim, in addition to an intense concert schedule. Perhaps she was born to be a musician? After convincing her parents to buy her a cello at the age of four, she made her public concert debut six months later, her debut with the Cleveland

Orchestra at 13 and her Carnegie Hall debut two years later. Weilerstein has performed with Australian orchestras several times, but this is your first chance to hear her solo. Bach’s C-major cello suite demonstrates Weilerstein’s gift for shaping a single line into a thing of dancing grace, while Kodály’s richly-textured masterpiece gives the cellist scope to showcase her intensity, virtuosity and expressive gifts.

A Cello Alone BRITTEN Tema Sacher GOLIJOV Omaramor BACH Cello Suite No.3 in C, BWV 1009 KODÁLY Sonata for Solo Cello, Op.8

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Her recent electrifying performance of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra left audiences stunned and calling for more.

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PIANO

7.30PM WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST _

Debussy: The 12 Études _

A UNIQUE COMMUNICATOR PLAYS RHAPSODIC AND RADICAL BEETHOVEN AND DEBUSSY.

“Hodges’ recitals always boldly go where few other pianists dare with an energy that sometimes defies belief.” THE GUARDIAN

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NICOLAS HODGES piano _ D AT E :

WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

Debussy: The 12 Études BEETHOVEN Six Bagatelles, Op.126 BEETHOVEN Piano sonata in C minor, No.32, Op.111 DEBUSSY Études, Books I & II

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They are also examples of Debussy’s sly wit and popcultural interests: full of waltzes, jazz, Spanish guitars and parody. In short, they're the perfect vehicles for pianist like Hodges, whose own wide-ranging tastes encompass everything from Beethoven to brand new works, often in the same concert.

piano concerto he premiered with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2011) and celebrated orchestras and conductors. Common to all his performances is a desire to cross centuries and continents to illuminate old and new repertoire with surprising juxtapositions demonstrating even more surprising parities.

Hodges has stunned audiences with his skill and his ability to communicate in the most challenging of new music and his insights into the core piano repertoire. He works regularly with luminary living composers such as Thomas Adès (whose

In this case, it is the late works of Beethoven and Debussy. The late sonatas of Beethoven are a radical redefinition of the form: freewheeling, philosophical and sublime, they are endlessly fascinating musical mazes. In the second movement of the Op.111 sonata Beethoven transcends time

itself, with a set of celestial variations that resound into infinity. Beethoven regarded his sketch-like Six Bagatelles, Op.126 as the best he had written, and there are tantalising hints of his most innovative works. Hiding behind the deadpan facade of Debussy’s Études are worlds of colour and invention as imaginative as anything he ever wrote, so that even as pianists are perfecting their octaves, they are learning how to dream.

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Debussy said that his twelve studies were only for pianists with ‘remarkable hands’. Fortunately, Nicolas Hodges possesses them. These late masterpieces are a distillation of Debussy’s revolutionary techniques, demanding that pianists transcend their instrument and themselves to create unimagined sonorities.

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7.30PM TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER _

Ref lections _

BAVOUZET’S PLAYING PUTS POETRY IN EMOTION.

“The sound of the Bavouzet fingers is distinctive. It is searching, penetrating, imaginatively fired, and endlessly curious in its exploration of any composer’s unique sound palette and language.” THE TIMES (UK)

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JEAN-EFF AM BAVOUZET PIANO

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Colour and emotion are Jean-Efflam’s speciality. As one of the world’s great exponents of the exquisitely sensitive music of the Impressionists he is a true poet of the piano, and it is this reflective, lyrical quality that also makes him an ideal interpreter of the music of Beethoven.

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TUESDAY 25 NOVEMBER, 7.30PM _ PROGRAM:

Reflections

Beethoven has been at the centre of Bavouzet’s recent work and we’ll hear a handful of idiosyncratic middle-period sonatas. Filled with quirky minuets and waltzes, surprising turns of phrase and pungent harmonies, these sonatas were composed as Beethoven reinvented the symphony with

his Fifth, and a similar manic energy animates them. ‘Les Adieux’, the best-known of the four, opens with a distant, melancholy horn-call to start a story of tragic departure, tense absence and excited return. Of the music of Bruno Mantovani, Bavouzet says: “It’s like Haydn or Stravinsky in that gives me the impression of being cleverer when I listen to it. But it also reaches my heart.” The jazz-inflected Le Livre de Jeb was composed especially for J-E.B. Ravel’s Miroirs are five scenes painted by a master of light and shade, with unexpected depths below a glittering surface to be illuminated by Bavouzet’s art.

BEETHOVEN Four Great Piano Sonatas: No.22 in F, Op.54 No.24 in F-sharp, Op.78 ‘À Thérèse’ No.25 in G, Op.79 No.26 in E-flat, Op.81a ‘Les Adieux’ BRUNO MANTOVANI Le Livre de Jeb RAVEL Miroirs

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Since being discovered by conductor Georg Solti in the 1990s, Bavouzet has been taking the long route to international recognition, building a reputation based on glowing reviews, a catalogue of award-winning recordings and word of mouth rather than marketing hype. He now routinely fills halls in Europe and America with the most demanding of pianophiles.

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