A disciple of Vlado Perlemuter and Jean Hubeau, Michel Dalberto
distinguished himself at a very early age as the great heir of French
piano music, becoming a master and ardent defender of it, from recital
to master class, over the course of a career spanning thirty years.
Although his recordings had heretofore been devoted in particular to the Viennese Classical and German Romantic eras (to the present day, he remains the only living pianist to have recorded Schubert's complete piano works), his much-awaited return to disc will leave Michel Dalberto's mark on the French music discography.
In the documentary Michel Dalberto: images…, he confided, regarding Debussy: 'I always thought I had time and that the longer I waited, the more my approach to the French repertoire would be enriched'.
And it is the Aparté label that Michel Dalberto at last chose to record, in an ideal balance between heritage and transmission, a series of discs devoted to Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, and Franck. This collection of the greatest French composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the embodiment of French musical elegance, that unique combination of grace, mastery and high standards that are synonymous with the pianist's genius.
Each 'episode' of the collection will be recorded and filmed live in a different hall and on a different piano, which Michel Dalberto will have chosen to conform as closely as possible to the colours that he wishes for the composer in question.
This first volume, honouring Claude Debussy, was recorded on 30 May 2015 on a Fazioli piano at the Teatro Bibiena, in the framework of the Mantua chamber music festival.
‘Two years ago, near Venice, I played pieces by Debussy on a Fazioli piano, and it seemed obvious to me that this piano provided the ideal sonority for this music made of light and shadow. The idea of recording a recital in a beautiful Italian theatre came as a logical continuation. The « Bibiena » (from the name of its architect, Antonio Bibiena) in Mantua was inaugurated in December 1769 – Mozart gave a concert there a month later. It is, with the San Carlo in Naples, my finest memory of an Italian theatre where I played.’
Although his recordings had heretofore been devoted in particular to the Viennese Classical and German Romantic eras (to the present day, he remains the only living pianist to have recorded Schubert's complete piano works), his much-awaited return to disc will leave Michel Dalberto's mark on the French music discography.
In the documentary Michel Dalberto: images…, he confided, regarding Debussy: 'I always thought I had time and that the longer I waited, the more my approach to the French repertoire would be enriched'.
And it is the Aparté label that Michel Dalberto at last chose to record, in an ideal balance between heritage and transmission, a series of discs devoted to Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, and Franck. This collection of the greatest French composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the embodiment of French musical elegance, that unique combination of grace, mastery and high standards that are synonymous with the pianist's genius.
Each 'episode' of the collection will be recorded and filmed live in a different hall and on a different piano, which Michel Dalberto will have chosen to conform as closely as possible to the colours that he wishes for the composer in question.
This first volume, honouring Claude Debussy, was recorded on 30 May 2015 on a Fazioli piano at the Teatro Bibiena, in the framework of the Mantua chamber music festival.
‘Two years ago, near Venice, I played pieces by Debussy on a Fazioli piano, and it seemed obvious to me that this piano provided the ideal sonority for this music made of light and shadow. The idea of recording a recital in a beautiful Italian theatre came as a logical continuation. The « Bibiena » (from the name of its architect, Antonio Bibiena) in Mantua was inaugurated in December 1769 – Mozart gave a concert there a month later. It is, with the San Carlo in Naples, my finest memory of an Italian theatre where I played.’
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