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Final Concert at La Roque-d'Anthéron

APOTHEOSIS AND BALANCE TO ROQUE

Concert end of 30 th anniversary of the International Piano Festival of La Roque-d'Anthéron

August 22, 2010

" What is better than a piano? "said a friend, pianist. "Two Pianos". So what about those six pianos for sixteen pianists gods playing with both hands also multiplied by twelve?

evening of celebration, of that fair piano concert anniversary Closing of 30 th Anniversary Festival, broadcast live on Arte. Turns one, two, three, four, six pianos, two, three, four, six, twelve pianists up to twenty-four hands on the twelve instruments, for a pianistic fireworks crazy, hilarious, a quality too rare, despite the final recess as interpreters Roque veterans or young entrants.

What skewer for this concert! In alphabetical order and disorder of talent sharing: Ido Bar-Shai, sisters Bizjak (Lodija and Sanja), Bertrand Chamayou Diluka Shani, Brigitte Engerer, Yaron Herman, David Kadouch, Edit Klukon, sisters Kodama (Mari and Momo), Adam Laloum, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Anne Queffélec, Dezsö Ranki, Emmanuel Strosser , led three times by Christian Zacharias head the excellent Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne.

Everything would be to retain this magnificent final festival, teasing and playful improvisations four hands Yaron Herman defying Jean-Frédéric Neuburger , the comical sketch by J. Castarède, Threesome on a narrow bench on which, Strosser , husband, and Neuburger, lover, vie instead and Brigitte Engerer sandwich. But the summits of all these performances were admirable, directed with grace and humor by Zacharias , the remarkable piano transcriptions for six and twelve pianists controlled M.-O. Dupin : that of opening Meistersinger Wagner, a real blueprint, without drying out the architecture dissects polyphonic work, to assess the subtle harmonic curl; that of opening Figaro Mozart First performed in the orchestra, made visible as the jubilant Audible reasons, wisps running like a thrill of a piano at the side of this crazy day with this crazy night was not unworthy .

Happiness to see all these hands on these keyboards, this variety of expression of various artists at the same interpretive fire and unfortunately absent on the screen Arte, all these pianos, wisely stored at the bottom of the stage as a docile back herd gleaming, waiting their turn to be sorted differently by the movement of technicians, cameramen and dance round and the camera rotating Arte.

short, this festival is a good thirty pornography. His birthday was celebrated by 85,850 spectators and 450 performers, including 81 pianists, 3 harpsichordists, 3 organists and piano fortistes 2, 6 bands, 2 dancers, 1 singer, 18 musicians in residence, who shared 79 concerts paid and 18 free, distributed in 10 different places. Radios, televisions joined the event, expanding considerably this audience already considerable. Happy birthday and solid.

Final Concert of 30 th anniversary of the International Piano Festival of La Roque-d'Anthéron.

Program: Bach, Castérède, Lizst / Alabiev, Mozart, Poulenc, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Wagner.

Pianists: Ido Bar-Shai, sisters Bizjak (Lodija and Sanja), Bertrand Chamayou, Shani Diluka, Brigitte Engerer, Yaron Herman, David Kadouch, Edit Klukon, sisters Kodama (Mari and Momo) Laloum Adam, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Anne Queffélec, Dezsö Ranki, Emmanuel Strosser.

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne conducted by Christian Zacharias.

Photos: Yves Bergé