Lise de la Salle - Bach | Liszt - New Release

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

1-2 Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor BWV 903
3 Choral Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland in G minor BWV 659
4 Toccata in D major BWV 912
5 Choral Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ in F major BWV 639 Transcription Ferruccio Busoni
6-7 Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 543 Transcription Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt 1811-1886

8 St Francis of Paola walking on the water (Legend No.2)
9 Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Années de pélerinage, Italie)
10 The funeral gondola No.1
11 Mephisto Waltz No.1

Lise de la Salle Piano Steinway

Since the release in the spring of 2003 of her first CD (Rachmaninoff-Ravel), acclaimed by the international press, Lise de la Salle has achieved a great deal. Coming barely three months after she won First Prize at the Young Concert Artists European Auditions, her Special Prize at the 2004 Young Artists International Auditions in New York led to a series of concert appearances in the key American musical centres. In the same year she made debuts in Japan and at the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival. She has also recently been invited at the Festival of La Roque d'Anthéron in Provence. Yet this sixteen-year-old, currently in the postgraduate class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, is no over-drilled child prodigy, but an astonishingly mature artist. The most striking thing about her is her sense of balance: sure of herself creatively yet open-minded, perfectly controlled in her playing yet not content to stick to the status quo, Lise continues on her path.
The programme of her second recording offers further proof of this taste for balance: Bach and Liszt, Protestant linearity and Catholic fervour, abstract architectonics and untrammelled subjectivism, the Baroque and the high Romantic, the crystalline and the emotion-drenched. In her interpretation of several remarkable transcriptions of organ works, not to mention the celebrated Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, this young pianist gives Bach amazing modernity. Her limpid, perfectly controlled playing is equally successful in a fine selection of Liszt, with an outstandingly memorable First Mephisto Waltz. This recital gives us the opportunity to appreciate Lise de la Salle as she is today: already a great artist; promise of so much still to come.
After a text by Manuel Brug

CONCERTS

DEUTSCHLAND
24/04 >Baden-Baden (Kurhaus) PROKOFJEW
15/07 >Bad Kissingen (Regentenbau) LISZT
17/07 >Passau (Rathaussaal) BACH LISZT
FRANCE
05/05 >Rouen (Université) BACH LISZT
12/04 >Paris (Salle Gaveau) BACH LISZT
JAPAN
31/05 >Shizuoka (Concert Hall) BACH LISZT
01/06 >Kumamoto (Kenritsu Gekimo) BACH LISZT
06/06 >Kanazawa (Ishikawa Ongakudo) LISZT

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