Alexandre Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud
—Bach, Ravel and Dukas
Performers
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
Program
Chorale from the Passion according to St. Matthew, BWV 244*
“Siciliana” from the Flute Sonata BWV 1031*
Suite BWV 818a (“Preludi”, “Alemanda”, “Courante”, “Sarabanda”, “Minuet”, “Giga”)
Aria “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben” from the Passion according to St. Matthew, BWV 244*
Suite BWV 996 for lute (“Prelude”, “Alemanda”, “Bourrée”, “Sarabande”, “Giga”)*
: Miroirs (“Noctuelles”, “Oiseaux tristes”, “Une Barque sur l’océan”, “Alborada del grazioso”, “La Vallée des cloches”)
: The Sorcerer's Apprentice*
*(transcription by A. Tharaud)
Details
French pianist Alexandre Tharaud has mastered a very wide repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary music. Today's programme will give a good account of this, as he begins with Bach – of whom he will perform a selection of his own transcriptions and other works for different instruments or instrumental combinations – and moves on to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with two works by the French composers Ravel and Dukas.