Performer: Jean Rondeau

Jean Rondeau’s anniversary tribute to Louis Couperin reveals a refined but inward-looking aesthetic – beautifully controlled, yet ultimately lacking the rhetorical energy, physicality, and communicative spark essential to this music.

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In at the deep end for harpsichordist Jean Rondeau in Lucerne

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Stephen Pritchard, 07 Feb

Lucerne’s new festival “Le Piano Symphonique” showcases the orchestral qualities of the piano... and the harpsichord, with a recital in what was once a swimming pool!

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Jean Rondeau illuminates La Chaux-de-Fonds with “Melancholy Grace”

Elodie Olson-Coons, 11 Nov

French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau’s showcase of late Renaissance music shines.

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Strangers in the night: Poulenc makes a rare visit to Paris

Mark Pullinger, 10 Mar

Corinna Niemeyer conducts the Orchestre de Paris, which had never played Poulenc's Concert champêtre before, and had only given one performance each of the Sinfonietta and Organ Concerto. Incroyable !

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Captivating command and a striking Risser première from Jean Rondeau

Nick Boston, 23 Jul

A striking première by Eve Risser following Jean Rondeau’s captivating display of the virtuosic heights of French Baroque harpsichord writing.

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Maurice Steger thrills with his virtuosic wizardry

Nahoko Gotoh, 03 Jul

Maurice Steger brought this essential but under-represented instrument from Renaissance and Baroque chamber and ensumble music to a mainstream concert hall.

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Bach transformed: Jean Rondeau on remaking the Goldberg Variations

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Bachtrack, 01 Apr

Renowned harpsichordist Jean Rondeau presents a new view of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at this year’s Bachfest Schaffhausen, including in arrangement for Baroque ensemble, and as a new composition for piano, percussion and electronics inspired by the cycle.