Théotime Langlois de Swarte / Tanguy de Williencourt PROUST, LE CONCERT RETROUVÉ

 

PROUST, LE CONCERT RETROUVÉ

 

Raphaël Pidoux / Tanguy de Williencourt LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas, Op. 5

 

CELLO SONATAS, OP. 5

 

Stéphanie d'Oustrac / Thibaut Roussel / Tanguy de Williencourt UNE SOIRÉE CHEZ BERLIOZ

UNE SOIRÉE CHEZ BERLIOZ

Stéphanie d'Oustrac / Thibaut Roussel / Tanguy de Williencourt UNE SOIRÉE CHEZ BERLIOZ

Another facet of Berlioz! We may find it hard to imagine that the composer of such epics as Les Troyens started out as a guitarist... and that his first compositional experience was to transcribe songs, inherited from the Ancien Regime, for voice and guitar.

The particular instrument that was given to Berlioz by Paganini survives to this day; here it brings us closer to the repertoire suitable for a musicale hosted by Berlioz: airs for voice and guitar, but also art songs (a genre which the composer pioneered), along with chamber music and pieces for solo piano. Another way of listening to Berlioz!

Bruno Philippe / Tanguy de Williencourt / Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Christoph Eschenbach PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata - Sinfonia Concertante

With this new album devoted to Prokofiev, cellist Bruno Philippe continues his exploration of Russian music. Having already recorded a recital of Rachmaninov's and Myaskovsky's Sonatas with Jérôme Ducros, here he is reunited with his long-time musical partner Tanguy de Williencourt on the piano, but also with his mentor, conductor Christoph Eschenbach leading the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt. On the program, Prokofiev's (surprisingly?) romantic cello sonata, coupled with his Sinfonia concertante, that Mount Everest of technical challenges – both works having been written for the great Rostropovitch, who gave them their first performances in 1950 and 1952.