The Pierre-Laurent Aimard Collection | Warner 2564691492

The Pierre-Laurent Aimard Collection

Label: Warner

Cat No: 2564691492

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 4th May 2009

Contents

Artists

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Conductors

Kent Nagano
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Artists

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Conductors

Kent Nagano
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

About

Born in Lyon in 1957, Pierre-Laurent Aimard denies that he was ever a Wunderkind. Yet at the age of twelve he entered the Paris Conservatoire as a pupil of Yvonne Loriod; at fifteen he won first prize at the Messiaen Competition in Paris; and at nineteen, consciously spurning the “often poisonous” traditional route of the rising virtuoso, he became solo pianist of Pierre Boulez’s new Ensemble intercontemporain.

His close associations with Messiaen and Boulez (one of Messiaen’s pupils) changed his life, vastly widening his already spacious horizons, and enriching his musicianship, both spiritual and technical. Later, for more than fifteen years, he worked closely with György Ligeti, who uncontroversially described him as “the leading performer of contemporary piano music today”.

Contents:
CD 1 (77.36)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No.15 in B flat major, K450: III Allegro (live recording)
- Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat major, K595: II Larghetto (live recording)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 “Appassionata”: I Allegro assai (live recording)

Maurice Ravel
- Gaspard de la nuit

Olivier Messiaen
- Turangalîla-Symphonie: VII Turangalîla 2 (Un peu vif) (live recording)
Berliner Philharmoniker / Kent Nagano
- Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus: X Regard de l’Esprit de joie (Presque vif)

Claude Debussy
- Images (Première Série): Reflets dans l’eau
- Études (Livre II): XII Pour les accords

Charles Ives
- Piano Sonata No.2 “Concord, Mass., 1840–60”: III “The Alcotts”

CD 2 (76.27)
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73“Emperor”: II Adagio un poco mosso / III Rondo: Allegro, ma non troppo (live recording)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Robert Schumann
- Études symphoniques, Op.13: Étude XII (Finale): Allegro brillante (live recording)

Franz Liszt
- Légendes: No.2: St François de Paule marchant sur les flots (live recording)

Antonín Dvorák
- Piano Concerto in G minor, Op.33: III Allegro con fuoco (live recording)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Alban Berg
- Piano Sonata, Op.1 (live recording)

György Ligeti
- Études: No.17: À bout de souffle / No.18: Canon

Steve Reich
- Music for pieces of wood

Elliott Carter
- Two Diversions (1999)

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