“Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s flexible virtuosity and innate grasp of Debussy’s style and sound world yields ravishing, freshly minted interpretations … ”Gramophone
This event occurred on Friday 1 November 2024
Award-winning French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. He regularly works with The Cleveland, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and collaborates with many renowned conductors across the world.
Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos. His most recent release, A Musical Tribute to Pierre Sancan with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier, won the Gramophone Editor’s Choice and Diapason d’Or awards. His complete Haydn Piano Sonatas series has been named a modern benchmark by Gramophone and his The Beethoven Connection received numerous accolades from magazines including the New York Times, BBC Music Magazine and Choc-Classica.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is one of the world’s foremost exponents of the music of both Claude Debussy and Robert Schumann. In this recital he performs iconic works by both composers, including Claude Debussy’s Études, Book II and Children’s Corner and Robert Schumann’s Arabesque in C major, Op. 18
This exceptional pianist, with his radiant clarity, freshness and subtlety, brings us a recital to be treasured, performing in November 2024 at Snow Concert Hall in Canberra*.
* Presented in partnership with Snow Concert Hall and their 2024 concert series.
Program
Claude Debussy:
Children’s Corner L.113
I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
II. Jimbo’s Lullaby
III. Serenade for the Doll
IV. The Snow Is Dancing
V. The Little Shepherd
VI. Golliwog’s Cake-walk
Robert Schumann:
Kinderszenen Op.15
I. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
II. Kuriose Geschichte
III. Hasche-Mann
IV. Bittendes Kind
V. Glückes genug
VI. Wichtige Begebenheit
VII. Träumerei
VIII. Am Kamin
IX.Ritter vom Steckenpferd
X. Fast zu ernst
XI. Fürchtenmachen
XII. Kind im Einschlummern
XIII. Der Dichter spricht
Claude Debussy:
Rêverie L.68
Claude Debussy:
from 2 Arabesques L.66
No.2 in G major
Robert Schumann:
Arabeske in C major Op.18
– Interval –
Claude Debussy:
Berceuse héroïque L.132
Karlheinz Stockhausen:
Klavierstück IX
Claude Debussy:
Etudes L.136 Book II
I. Pour les degrés chromatiques
II. Pour les agréments
III. Pour les notes répétées
IV. Pour les sonorités opposées
V. Pour les arpèges composés
VI. Pour les accords