Ravel: Fragments Bertrand Chamayou

• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): 3 Chansons, M. 69:
• 1 Ravel: 3 Chansons, M. 69: No. 2, Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis (Transcr. Chamayou for Piano) 02:29
• Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57d:
• 2 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57d: Danse légère et gracieuse de Daphnis 02:01
• Joaquín Nin (1879 - 1949): 5 Comentários:
• 3 Nin: 5 Comentários: No. 1, Mensaje a Ravel 01:57
• Maurice Ravel: 5 Mélodies populaires grecques:
• 4 Ravel: 5 Mélodies populaires grecques: No. 1, Chanson de la mariée, M. A 9 (Transcr. Chamayou for Piano) 01:17
• Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947): De la nuit:
• 5 Sciarrino: De la nuit 06:21
• Maurice Ravel: Fragments symphoniques de Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57c
• 6 Ravel: Fragments symphoniques de Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57c 09:14
• Alexandre Tansman (1897 - 1986): 4 Préludes:
• 7 Tansman: 4 Préludes: No. 2, Hommage à Maurice Ravel 01:51
• Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera, M. 51:
• 8 Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera, M. 51 (Transcr. Chamayou for Piano) 02:43
• Frédéric Durieux (b. 1959): Pour tous ceux qui tombent:
• 9 Durieux: Pour tous ceux qui tombent 02:55
• Maurice Ravel: La valse, M. 72b:
• 10 Ravel: La valse, M. 72b 12:58
• Ricardo Viñes (1875 - 1943): 4 Hommages pour le piano:
• 11 Viñes: 4 Hommages pour le piano: No. 1, Menuet spectral (À la mémoire de Maurice Ravel) 02:50
• Xavier Montsalvatge (1912 - 2002): Elegía a Maurice Ravel:
• 12 Montsalvatge: Elegía a Maurice Ravel 02:08
• Betsy Jolas (b. 1926): Signets, hommage à Maurice Ravel:
• 13 Jolas: Signets, hommage à Maurice Ravel 03:17
• Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955): 3 Pièces pour piano:
• 14 Honegger: 3 Pièces pour piano: No. 2, Hommage à Ravel 03:11
• Maurice Ravel: Suite pour piano de Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57c:
• 15 Ravel: Suite pour piano de Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57c: Scène de Daphnis et Chloé 05:57
• Total Runtime 01:01:09

Info for Ravel: Fragments

Ravel Fragments marks Bertrand Chamayou's tribute to the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel's birthday, a composer deeply influential throughout his career. The album features Ravel’s transcriptions of La Valse and excerpts from Daphnis et Chloé, Chamayou’s own transcriptions of vocal works, and pieces inspired by Ravel, spanning both historical and contemporary composers Including works by 20th-century composers Arthur Honegger, Joaquín Nin, Alexandre Tansman, Xavier Montsalvatge, and Ricardo Viñes, alongside contemporary tributes by Betsy Jolas, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Frédéric Durieux.

Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Bertrand Chamayou
has established himself as a personality of the highest level on the international music scene, performing in venues like the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Herkulessaal, Musikfest Bremen, Wigmore Hall, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Festival, Rotterdam Gergiev Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and orchestras like the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammer Philharmonie, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, the WDR Sinfonie Orchester, the SWR Sinfonie Orchester, the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. Bertrand has worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Neville Marriner, Semyon Bychkov, Michel Plasson, Louis Langrée, Fabien Gabel, Joshua Weilerstein, Jérémie Rhorer, Stéphane Denève, Ludovic Morlot, Andris Nelson.

In the 2013/14 season, Bertrand will debut with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester at Berlin’s Philharmonie with Stéphane Denève the NDR Sinfonie Orchester in Hamburg with Semyon Bychkov and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, ; he will return with the Hessischer Rundfunk Orchester in Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, will tour with Ludovic Morlot and his Orchestre de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, will return for an evening recital at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and be given a residency with the Orchetsre National de Bordeaux in their brand new auditorium including several orchestral performances, recitals and a tour. He will also tour in the United-States and play a recital at New York’s Lincoln Center.

Bertrand Chamayou released a very successful César Franck CD in March 2010, which was awarded several prizes including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice. In 2008 his Mendelssohn CD had also been a wide success. He had released in 2006 a very successful Liszt live CD (Transcendental Etudes) for Sony Classical. In 2011, he celebrated Liszt’ 200th anniversary recording the complete Years of Pilgrimage for Naive which he also performed in several venues throughout the world. The album received raving reviews worldwide and got several prizes including Gramophone ‘s Choice. He played the same year with Pierre Boulez and the Orchestre de Paris at Salle Pleyel,. In February 2011, he won a Victoire de la Musique as “Soloist of the Year”.

At 20, Bertrand was a prize-winner at the international Long- Thibaud competition . Born in 1981, Bertrand was very soon remarked by pianist Jean-François Heisser who was later to become his professor at Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. Bertrand Chamayou completed his training then with Maria Curcio in London and was given precious advice by such great masters as Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Murray Perahia.

Betrrand has been a regular chamber music player with partners including Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit, Baiba Skride, Sol Gabetta, Nicolas Baldeyrou. He now regularly performs throughout the world with Sol Gabetta.

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