Description
This second concert in the Musicales Guil et Durance series offers an opportunity to (re)discover Rodolphe Menguy. One of the most talented young pianists of his generation, he will enchant you with a program that explores the world of fairy tales, a subject close to the pianist’s heart.
The richly varied program features an ingenious combination of well-known and lesser-known, even previously unpublished, works. Pieces in the first category include Debussy's Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses, Stravinsky/Agosti's L'Oiseau de feu and Tchaikovsky/Pletnev's Nutcracker. Pieces such as Rachmaninov's Little Red Riding Hood (excerpt from Études-Tableaux op. 39, no. 6), Nicolai Medtner's Fairy Tale (op. 26 no. 3), or Grieg's Lyric Pieces (To the Fatherland op. 62, no. 6 and Troll March, op. 54, no. 3) may be more or less familiar to music lovers, while works by Mel Bonis (Viviane op. 80, Omphale op. 86, and Phœbé op. 30), Paul Dukas (La Plainte, au loin, du faune...), and Korngold (Das Märchen spricht einen Epilog) are rarely performed.
