Debussy in a Different Light: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at the Cheltenham Music Festival

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 09 July 2012

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Reviewed at Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham on 6 July 2012

Debussy, Ballade

Debussy, Tarantelle styrienne

Debussy, Nocturne in D flat major

Debussy, Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

Debussy, Images oubliées, for piano

Debussy, L'Isle joyeuse, Op.26

Debussy, Images, Set 1

Debussy, Préludes: Book 1 (selection)

Debussy, 12 Études, L.136 (selection)

Debussy, Préludes: Book 2

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel’s complete piano works

Edward Sava-Segal, 18th November

A coherent, finely balanced traversal in Alice Tully Hall is shaped by clarity, restraint and expressive poise.

*****

Mixed results from Dalia Stasevska's trio of 20th-century works

David Truslove, 12th March

Seldom heard and standard repertoire bring mixed results from Dalia Stasevska, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus.

***11

Bavouzet’s Manchester Mozart cycle reaches its epic peak

Leighton Jones, 20th September

All good things must come to end, but Manchester Camerata's Mozart piano concerto cycle did so in exceptional style in Stoller Hall.

*****

Albéric Magnard steals the show in all-French recital at Wigmore Hall

Nick Boston, 15th November

How many of Albéric Magnard's 22 works do you know? Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the Orsino Ensemble perform his Quintet in D minor to Wigmore Hall and it becomes the sixth star of the evening.

*****

More Mozart, made in Manchester from the Camerata

Rohan Shotton, 25th March

Gábor Takács-Nagy and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet tackle Mozart's Piano Concertos nos. 24 and 25 with the Manchester Camerata with their usual panache.

****1

Domingo Hindoyan’s RLPO soirée française

Leighton Jones, 20th January

Two unusual French orchestral works bring a unity to a Philharmonic Hall programme mixing the familiar and the unfamiliar.

****1

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.