Quatuor Hanson, Adam Laloum – Schumann: String Quartets – Piano Quintet (2024)
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Far from the dark, tortured image often associated with his music, the works on this album testify to an astonishingly serene period in Schumann’s life. A fine subject for this first album by the Hanson Quartet for harmonia mundi, whose members are partnered by Adam Laloum for a thrilling reading of a masterpiece of the Romantic repertory: the Piano Quintet.
Read moreAdam Laloum – Schubert: Piano Sonata, D. 959 – Moments musicaux D. 780 (2024)
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Under the fingers of Adam Laloum, Schubert’s music becomes a journey. The emotions that enrich it are those of a deeply human artistry and the murmur of a voice that still moves us 200 years after falling silent. Adam Laloum’s way with Schubert is unique, as his first album (Sonatas D894 and D958) so eloquently demonstrated. A new world awaits us here with the Sonata D959 and the Moments musicaux, whose unassuming title belies the lasting impact they have had on piano lovers.
Read moreLiya Petrova, Adam Laloum, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Duncan Ward – Momentum [1]: Walton, Respighi (2023)
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Liya Petrova presents here the first instalment of a double diptych, featuring two rarely recorded works: Walton’s Violin Concerto (1938) with a prestigious British orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Duncan Ward, and Respighi’s Violin Sonata (1917) with her regular keyboard partner Adam Laloum. The shimmering harmonic palette and the vigorously phrased lyricism of these two works respond almost instinctively to each other and make them a natural coupling.
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Adam Laloum – Schubert (2019)
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Juste avant leur séparation il y a quelques mois, Les esprits était le trio le plus demandé en France et en Europe, avec 3 musiciens les plus talentueux de la jeune génération. Adam Laloum au piano, Victor Julien-Laferrière au violoncelle et Mi-sa Yang au violon. Pour ce dernier album témoignage, ils y ont gravé Schubert avec des interprétations mémorables, répertoire ultime pour ce registre, qui deviendra sans aucun doute une référence dans le genre.
Read moreMi-Sa Yang, Adam Laloum – Poulenc, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Debussy (2023)
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Violonist MI-Sa Yang and pianist Adam Laloum present a program that mirrors four composers of different sensitivities who, in their confrontation with the second Vienna School’s radical theories, have each sought in a genuine, personal way, to provide an alternative solution to the problems raised by the evolution of the musical language.
Read moreLise Berthaud, Adam Laloum – Schumann, Schubert, Brahms (2013)
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Lise Berthaud [b.1982] studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, with Gérard Caussé. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Competition, was short listed by the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2009 as ‘Révélation de l’Année’ (Newcomer of the Year) and since September 2013, Lise has been part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.
Adam Laloum studied at the Paris Conservatoire before receiving international recognition when he won 1st Prize at the prestigious Clara Haskil Piano Competition. Laloum has founded a piano trio ‘Les Esprits’. Both have played with prestigious orchestras and have appeared on famous stages and festivals. This is their first recital together and Lise Berthaud’s debut recording.
Read moreRaphaël Sévère, Adam Laloum, Victor Julien Laferrière – Brahms: Sonata No. 1 & 2 for Clarinet and Piano – Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2018)
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Three musician friends meet here for a programme devoted to Brahms’s musical testaments. The 20-year-old clarinetist Raphaël Sévère, blessed with a magnificent sonority, and Adam Laloum, whose first disc was dedicated to Brahmsian twilights, together demonstrate that, in the burnished autumnal colours of these sonatas, the composer chose the clarinet to bid a melancholy farewell to the world. Victor Julien-Laferrière joins them for the elegiac Trio Op.114.
Read moreJulien Libeer, Adam Laloum – J. S. Bach & Beyond: A Well-Tempered Conversation (2022)
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To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Julien Libeer had the idea of presenting it in an unusual light: here he initiates a dialogue in which Bach’s major-key prelude-and-fugue pairs “converse” with later pieces (in the corresponding minor keys) by composers who, in their own way, have built upon the advances Johann Sebastian made in his foundational undertaking. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Ligeti, and Schoenberg are all part of the conversation with the Leipzig Cantor in this intricate play of mirrors…
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Adam Laloum, Victor Julien Laferrière – Brahms, Franck & Debussy: Sonates pour violoncelle & piano (2016)
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Between post-Romanticism and Symbolism, three masterpieces for cello and piano, created between 1865 and 1915 on either side of the Rhine. And two young talents of the twenty-first century who present their enthralling vision of these three facets of ‘Art Nouveau’.
Read moreAdam Laloum – Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 – Schubert: Sonate pour piano en Si-Bémol Majeur, D. 960 (2016)
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For both Schubert and Schumann, the Romantic poetics of the instant and of eternity became equivalent. With his rare penetration into their world, Adam Laloum has entered by rights into the narrow, timeless circle of the soul mates of the two visionary geniuses.
“The ineffable piano of this artist carries within him this song, this bit of madness, and the nostalgia that signed the unique art of Guiomar Novaes, Vladimir Horowitz , Clara Haskil, Wilhelm Kempff and a few others, including Catherine Collard, who was the queen of this repertoire (…) ”
Read moreAdam Laloum – Schubert: Sonatas D. 894 & D. 958 (2019)
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Barely two years separate the monumental Sonata in G (October 1826) from its sister in C minor (September 1828), the first of a trilogy composed on the threshold of death, which was to win the struggle a few weeks later. Two years – and a whole world.
Rarely presented together, these two Schubert masterpieces are key works in the repertoire but also in the aesthetic explorations of Adam Laloum, who here makes his first recording for harmonia mundi.
Read moreAdam Laloum – Brahms: Pièces pour piano (2011)
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From the age of 20 onwards, Brahms wrote unceasingly for the piano. His solo pieces for the instrument, ranging from the poetic evocations of the variations Op.21 to the nostalgic yearning of Op.117, may be seen as personal journal.
Adam Laloum was born in Toulouse in 1987. He began studying the piano at the age of ten and has studied with Michel Béroff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pascal Devoyon and Jean-Claude Pennetier. Since October 2009 Adam has been a student at Hamburg’s Hochschule für Musik under Evgeny Koroliov who won the Clara Haskil Prize in 1977.
In September 2009 Adam won the first prize the audience award at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition. One to watch…
Read moreAdam Laloum – Brahms: Piano Sonata Op. 5 & 7 Fantasien, Op. 116 (2021)
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After his recent Schubert album, Adam Laloum pays a visit to Brahms: the young prodigy of the early 1850s immediately established himself as the worthy heir of Beethoven and Schumann with his dazzling Sonata No. 3. Almost forty years later, we find him just as wild and in no way mellowed – quite the contrary: he continues to explore new horizons in his Fantasias Op. 116, where recollections of the old masters of the Classical keyboard mingle with incredibly modern intuitions.
Read moreAdam Laloum – Brahms Piano Concertos (2018)
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For his first album with Sony Classical, Adam Laloum returns to one of his favourite composers. He distinguished himself with his first recording in 2011, for Mirare, which contained four of the composer’s major works: Variations on an original theme Op. 21 No. 1, the wonderful and too-little-played Klavierstücke from Op. 76, the two Rhapsodies Op. 79 and the 3 Intermezzi Op. 117. And so it is hardly a surprise that today he is offering up his vision of Brahms’s Concertos. Sony Classical has marshalled its formidable resources: one of the best orchestras in Germany, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; and one of the young wolves of orchestral conducting from Asia (but already well-known in Europe – witness his many collaborations with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for Pentatone) join them twice, once in August, then in October 2016, in the Radio Berlin Großer Sendesaal, for sessions which must have been a childhood dream come true for the young Frenchman. An amazing experience!
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