Rêves d'Espagne Hervé Billaut & Guillaume Coppola

• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946): La Vida Breve, deux danses espagnoles:
• 1 Falla: La Vida Breve, deux danses espagnoles: Première danse - Allagramento e vivo, molto ritmico 03:17
• 2 Falla: La Vida Breve, deux danses espagnoles: Deuxième danse - Allegro ritmico e con brio 04:07
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54:
• 3 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: I. Prélude à la nuit 03:52
• 4 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: II. Malagueña 02:03
• 5 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: III. Habanera 02:45
• 6 Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, M. 54: IV. Feria 06:27
• Mel Bonis (1858 - 1937):
• 7 Bonis: Pièces à 4 mains, Op. 130: V. Habanera 02:09
• 8 Bonis: Les Gitanos, Op. 15 No. 2 03:01
• Vincent d’Indy (1851 - 1931):
• 9 d’Indy: Sept chants de terroir, Op. 73: III. Seguidilla a l'alameda de Seville 02:25
• Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925): Nouvelles danses espagnoles, Op. 65:
• 10 Moszkowski: Nouvelles danses espagnoles, Op. 65: I. Allegro ma non troppo 04:03
• 11 Moszkowski: Nouvelles danses espagnoles, Op. 65: II. Andante con moto 04:28
• 12 Moszkowski: Nouvelles danses espagnoles, Op. 65: III. Habanera. Allegretto 04:43
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924):
• 13 Fauré: Dolly, six pièces, Op. 56: VI. Le pas espagnol 02:11
• Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 - 1894):
• 14 Chabrier: España 06:25
• Total Runtime 51:56

Info for Rêves d'Espagne

War im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert für deutsche Komponisten Italien der bevorzugte musikalische Sehnsuchtsort, so ließen sich in diesem Zeitraum die französische Kollegen von Spanien inspirieren. Das Klavierduo Hervé Billaut und Guillaume Coppola spüren auf ihrer Einspielung dem fruchtbaren Spanien-Hype in Frankreich nach, dem sich fast jeder französische Tonsetzer mit viel Esprit hingab.

Herve Billaut, Klavier 4-händig
Guillaume Coppola, Klavier 4-händig

Hervé Billaut
is a tone painter. In his recent, widely acclaimed recording of Isaac Albeniz’ masterpiece Iberia he sketches with imagination and sensibility a spelling, sensual, “wild landscape of the secret Spain” (Epok). Audiences have followed him through this musical journey with enthusiasm in Paris or La Roque d’Anthéron as well as in South America and in China. According to this musical explorer, being a musician means going beyond one’s brilliant technique in order to create a world of sensations, impressions and emotions. By applying this principle, Hervé has become rapidly a well regarded professor at the Conservatoire de Lyon and at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris where he has been teaching for ten years.

He, himself, went through a rigorous training as a talented child, he graduated at 16 from the Conservatory of Paris with the highest distinctions. Among his numerous awards (Viotti, 1981 ; Vercelli, 1982 ; Epinal, 1983 ; Pretoria, 1990 ; Tokyo, 1995) , he won the 3rd Grand Prize at the prestigious Long – Thibaud Piano Competition in 1983.

Since then, he has performed all over the world, playing at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, the Salle Pleyel in Paris or the Teàtro Real in Madrid as well as in Latin America or in the Far East. These tours have enabled him to build an extraordinary large repertoire, from Bach to Copland, as well as gaining great stage experience, acquired by playing in front of the most versatile audiences. He gave the national premiere of Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand and Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” Concerto in Ecuador.

His artistic friendships reveal an open personality: invited by the Orchestre National de France, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic or the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, he has played under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner and Yehudi Menuhin; an accomplished chamber musician, he shares complicity with pianists Frank Braley, Philippe Cassard, Cédric Tiberghien or violinists Stéphane Tran Ngoc and Naoko Ogihara; a regular guest in Radio France, he often participates in broadcast or gives live radio recitals; he still deepens his musical thinking by collaborating with such musicians as Marie-Françoise Bucquet and Jorge Chaminé or working at the Kempff Fondation in Positano; as the soloist of the Monte-Carlo Ballet, he has worked with choreographers Jean-Christophe Maillot, John Neumeier and Roland Petit.

„Music is an experience, which liberates from gravity“ – Hervé Billaut made his own this sentence by Leon Fleisher, who reports with pride and humour: „A former student of mine also pilots airplanes.“

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