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Alexandre Tharaud
Image credit: © Marco Borggreve

Archived Event

Bach, Dukas and Ravel
Alexandre Tharaud piano
Date
Sat 19 Oct 2024, 7.30pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Alexandre Tharaudpiano

Programme

      • St Matthew Passion BWV244
        :
      • Chorus (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
      • Flute Sonata in E flat BWV1031
        :
      • Siciliano (transcribed by Gottfried Galston)
      • Suite in A minor BWV818a
      • St Matthew Passion BWV244
        :
      • Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
      • Suite in E minor BWV996
        :
      • Praeludio (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
      • Allemande (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
      • Bourrée (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
      • Sarabande (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
      • Gigue (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)

Interval

  • Paul Dukas
    1865-1935
      • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
        (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)

Encore

      • Improvisation No. 15 in C minor 'Hommage à Edith Piaf'

Overview

The protean French pianist brings a programme concentrating on Bach on the piano – in this instance mostly in his own transcriptions. Alexandre Tharaud has also made his own pianistic version of Dukas’s famous orchestral showpiece, which contrasts with a virtuoso suite by the latter’s contemporary, Ravel, whose complete piano works form part of Tharaud’s sizeable discography.

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