Bach, Beethoven, Medtner

Description

The release of his first recording caused a sensation not only in France but throughout Europe. With Lucas Debargue, discovered a year after the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, we found an accomplished musician with exceptional qualities. He creates a surprise, barely 25 years old, and unanimously, critics praise the intensity of his playing, his sure and firm technique, his deep maturity, his lyrical and warm phrasing, all rare virtues that his atypical young career did not initially suggest. Here is therefore his first studio recording, with an original program chosen by him; it includes, in addition to this "Toccata and Fugue in C minor" by Bach, dated between 1705 and 1712, Beethoven's "7th Sonata" and its immense and splendid slow movement Largo of more than ten minutes, which makes it all the more appealing. To conclude, Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), a major Russian musician, in the shadow of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, who contributed to the success, among others, of Lucas Debargue at the Tchaikovsky Competition.