Alexandre Tharaud

Alexandre Tharaud is a keyboard phenomenon. His legendary appetite for piano repertoire can hardly be satisfied. For more than twenty-five years, he has eagerly cruised past genres, styles and interpretations, and is equally at home in Baroque, Impressionism, film music and twentieth-century. Tonight, Tharaud forks the vastness of French piano literature, slaloming past Couperin, Debussy, Ravel and Satie.

Piano great

As soon as French piano great Alexandre Tharaud gets behind the grand piano, the feast of wonder begins. Tharaud makes music as if he were creating the work on the spot. With an irrepressible urge for freedom and flawless improvisational ability, Tharaud works his way through centuries of piano classics and forgotten gems. Tharaud rarely chooses the easiest path. Rather, he takes up the challenge and unravels the essence of a composition.

Exquisite French menu

In 2007, he became an international star with his invigorating piano interpretations of harpsichord genius François Couperin. His complete recordings of Maurice Ravel were buried among music awards. Once again, Couperin and Ravel are on hand as indispensable ingredients of an exquisite French four-course menu. Other winged tastemakers are Debussy and Satie. Tharaud serves up mere highlights from the flowery oeuvre of the four Frenchmen.

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