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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Alexandre Tharaud

Alexandre Tharaud

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Live concert from London's Wigmore Hall, Alexandre Tharaud performs Debussy and Schubert.

Live concert from London's Wigmore Hall, celebrated French pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs Debussy and Schubert in his own transctiptions. Presented by Martin Handley.

Parisian pianist Alexandre Tharaud is known for his ingenious programmes as much as for his technical brilliance. Today he performs two of his own transcriptions: of the Debussy Prélude, he has written, ‘It’s a slow, sweeping piece for which I have added some depth to the piano texture, to maintain the tension. The centre of the movement is a tremendous moment that somehow has to be conveyed with two hands, which calls for an element of virtuosity’. Tharaud's Schubert transcription is of four excerpts from the stage music for Rosamunde & the concert opens with his four Impromptus, D899, in their original form.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Martin Handley

Schubert: Movements from Rosamunde D797 (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (transcribed by Alexandre Tharaud)
Schubert: 4 Impromptus D899

Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

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