Tharaud/Rotterdam PO/Nézet-Séguin/Frankfurt RSO/ Ceccherini/Les Violons du Roy/Lussier (Erato)Alexandre Tharaud performs three new piano concertos, of varying quality, but each with his characteristic tonal variety and clarity
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Alexandre Tharaud’s repertoire ranges across the piano literature, from Couperin to the present day, including brand new pieces. Three of the piano concertos he has introduced in the last seven years are brought together here. The three works are very different from each other, but all showcase the fleet brilliance, tonal variety and clarity of Tharaud’s playing.
Hans Abrahamsen’s Left, Alone, requires only the pianist’s left hand; it was, he says, “not written for a pianist with only one hand, but rather by a composer who can only play with the left hand” (Abrahamsen was born with restricted use of his right hand). But while there are distant echoes of Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand in some of the solo writing, the title has a double meaning.