Le récital tout en contrastes de Nelson Goerner au TCE

Nelson Goerner

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 10 May 2026

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“Goerner se fait alchimiste, dosant à la perfection le poids des accords et la sensualité du discours”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 5 May 2026

Bach, Toccata in C minor, BWV911

Schubert, Piano Sonata no. 19 in C minor, D.958

Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales

Albéniz, Iberia, Bk IV: Málaga

Albéniz, Iberia, Bk IV: Jerez

Albéniz, Iberia, Bk IV: Eritaña

Nelson Goerner, Piano

Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody

Robert Gainer, 9th April

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

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A pianist for all seasons: Argerich crowns festival with a debut

Mark Pullinger, 30th June

Martha Argerich gives a rare solo performance in the final programme of her festival, performing movements from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons for the very first time.

Michael Volle leads the musical potpourri in Hamburg

Zenaida des Aubris, 29th June

The Martha Argerich Festival minus Martha Argerich on this occasion, but ending with a Russian pièce de résistance.

***11

Jerusalem's International Chamber Music Festival

Alexandra Ivanoff, 3rd September

Where does one go to hear some of the world’s greatest pianists? To Jerusalem. More specifically, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, the annual ten-day musical delight in the Holy City in early September.

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Nelson Goerner plays Mozart, Schumann and Schubert at Wigmore Hall

Sam Wigglesworth, 11th September

How radical can an exposition repeat be? Well, in the hands of Schubert, very radical indeed, it turns out. The sheer scale of the Molto moderato which opens his final piano sonata means that by the time the opening material returns a huge swathe of time has passed, so much so that each re-encountered phrase is seen in the light of all that happened in the mean time.

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The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder: Beethoven 6

Rohan Shotton, 19th January

The Pastoral Symphony is perhaps an optimistic choice for January in Manchester, but for a short while all memory of the deluge outside evaporated in the Bridgewater Hall.Olivier Messiaen’s suite L’Ascension opened the concert with serene, otherworldly modality in a masterfully sculpted brass chorale.

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Jean-Pierre Rousseau

Jean-Pierre Rousseau a été successivement producteur responsable des émissions musicales à la Radio Suisse Romande (à ce titre co-fondateur de l'émission de critique de disques "Disques en Lice" en 1987), directeur de France Musique, directeur général de l'Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, directeur de la musique de Radio France puis directeur du Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier jusqu'en juillet 2022. Il a régulièrement participé aux émissions de critique de la RTBF, de France Musique, et collaboré à Forumopera. Il tient un blog qui lui permet d'exprimer sa passion pour les musiciens d'aujourd'hui et d'hier.

Le récital tout en contrastes de Nelson Goerner au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées