Pierre-Laurent Aimard
piano
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Préludes pour Piano
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
"Miroirs"
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
The Piano Festival for 2010 concludes with a foray through a century of French piano music. Pierre-Laurent Aimard brings matters to an end in reverse, so to speak, for he begins his program with an early work by Olivier Messiaen: the tender and sensitive Préludes which the composer wrote in 1928/29 after the death of his mother, the poet Cécile Sauvage. Under the title “La Colombe”, “The Dove”, he fashioned a musical memorial to her in the first of these eight pieces. The path then leads from Messiaen back a generation, to Maurice Ravel, who built a mysterious and ambiguous hall of mirrors with his “Miroirs”: Here we encounter five musical dream pictures and illusions, the very image and reflection of a soul as naïve as it is complicated and as childlike as it is overripe. The journey ends with Frédéric Chopin, “the greatest of all of us,” as Claude Debussy once admiringly described him, “for with the piano alone he knew how to reveal every secret.”
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