Jean-Efflam Bavouzet commemorates Debussy

By Roy Westbrook, 26 March 2018

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“Bavouzet became a French Prospero, conjuring terrifying tempests from the keyboard”

Reviewed at Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Milton Court Concert Hall, London on 25 March 2018

Debussy, Ballade (Part 1)

Debussy, Nocturne in D flat major (Part 1)

Debussy, Tarantelle styrienne (Part 1)

Debussy, Arabesque no. 1 Andantino con moto (Part 1)

Debussy, Estampes (Part 1)

Debussy, Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune (Part 1)

Debussy, L'Isle joyeuse, Op.26 (Part 1)

Debussy, Images, book 1 (Part 2)

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 8: La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair) (Part 2)

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 10: La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) (Part 2)

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 7: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest (Part 2)

Debussy, Étude no. 1, pour les cinq doigts d'après Monsieur Czerny (Part 2)

Debussy, Étude no. 2 pour les tierces (Part 2)

Debussy, Étude no. 4 pour les sixtes (Part 2)

Debussy, Étude no. 7 pour les degrés chromatiques (Part 2)

Debussy, Études no. 10: Pour les sonorités opposées (Part 2)

Debussy, Etude no. 11 pour les arpèges composés (Part 2)

Debussy, Étude no. 5 pour les octaves (Part 2)

Debussy, Préludes: Book 2 (Part 3)

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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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.

Pour le piano: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet commemorates Debussy at Milton Court