For her first album, pianist Élisabeth Pion offers us a selection of entirely French solo piano pieces … or almost! In this album, we find equal compositions by men and women from the turn of the 20th century in France: Mel Bonis, Lili Boulanger, Claude Debussy, and Henri Dutilleux. Pion also allows himself a small departure from his temporal and geographical constraints by integrating into the playlist a work by the British composer Thomas Adès as well as one of his compositions.
Élisabeth Pion’s playing is sensitive, deep, and fair. The pieces selected for this album are complex, sometimes disturbing, and the nuanced interpretation given by the young pianist does them complete justice. The fun and passion can definitely be heard in the recording. There we happily rediscover well-known pieces of the piano repertoire and become acquainted with new works that we will want to listen to again and again.
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