Cédric Tiberghien – Beethoven: Complete Variations for Piano, Vol. 2 (2024)
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There are few concerts in the world that are awaited with as much excitement as the New Year’s Concert from Vienna. Under the direction of Christian Thielemann, the Vienna Philharmonic ushers in the New Year with a concert in the magnificent Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein.
Read moreAlina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Vierne & Franck: Violin Sonatas (2023)
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The Franck sonata—one of the best-loved works in the entire Romantic violin repertoire—is one of a trio of delectable Franco-Belgian treats on offer from the acclaimed pair. A bonne bouche from Lili Boulanger completes a particularly enticing recital.
Read moreXavier Phillips & Cédric Tiberghien – Fauré: The music for Cello and Piano (2023)
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The music of Gabriel Fauré is at once unclassifiable and inexpressibly beautiful. One must yield to its seductions, savour in it the charm of the unexpected. The cello is the voice of the Fauré mélodie without the words. Its mellowness conceals passion. When Xavier Phillips and Cédric Tiberghien take possession of it, it becomes sensual, incandescent, a bouquet of refined, evergreen harmonies. The Élégie and the Berceuse will never fade, nor will the two late cello sonatas, whose surging vitality is that of a young man of more than seventy!
Read moreAlina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Violin Sonatas K305, 376 & 402 (2015)
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The earliest music here dates from when Mozart was just six years old, the latest from his rst years as a freelance composer resident in Vienna. The distinguished advocacy of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, in a second volume of the complete violin sonatas, is equally persuasive in both.
Read moreAlina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K301, 304, 379 & 481 (2016)
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Mozart’s violin sonatas span his entire career—the early ones are billed as piano sonatas with optional violin accompaniment—and they develop over the years into the first triumphs of the modern genre. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien have been enthralling audiences worldwide with these works, and now the first instalment is available as a highly desirable 2-for-1 album.
Read moreCédric Tiberghien – Beethoven: Complete Variations for Piano, Vol. 1 (2023)
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Cédric Tiberghien has long been interested in the principle of Beethovenian variation, as is demonstrated by a recording he made for harmonia mundi twenty years ago. He now proposes a project on a quite different scale, in which all Beethoven’s variation cycles will be juxtaposed with works illustrating the evolution of the genre, from the Renaissance to the present day. Here is the first part of a trilogy that promises to be fascinating.
Read moreAlina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano (2013)
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The luminous partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien returns to Hyperion for this double album containing Schubert’s complete music for violin and piano. Their intelligence and technical prowess, their seamless and intimate connection as performers and their profound understanding of the music combine in magical performances.
While still in his teens, Schubert wrote four works for violin and piano that could have been given the label ‘sonata’, yet none of the four was published with that title. The first three, completed in 1816, bear instead the designation of ‘Sonatina’, perhaps to appeal to the amateur market. But these are highly accomplished works by the teenage composer and there is little ‘domestic’ feeling in the extended, mysterious unravellings of D385 which hint at compositions yet to come.
The later Violin Sonata in A major, D574 (now described as a ‘Duo’), urges the violinist on to greater virtuosic feats, and the Rondo in B minor even more so, with the piano sometimes treated as a surrogate orchestra. The extensive Fantasy in C major, written in the last year of Schubert’s life, is a masterpiece: the composer’s greatest achievement in this genre, which combines poignancy with sheer joy in life itself.
Read moreAlina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K303, 377, 378 & 403 (2015)
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This is a series which continues to redefine the standards by which these works should be performed. As before, the music spans most of Mozart’s life, from 1763—when he was just seven years old—to 1782, and (another) unfinished present written for his new wife Constanze.
Read moreCédric Tiberghien – Beethoven: Concerto pour piano No. 1 & Symphonie No. 5 (2018)
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A veritable celebration cocktail, this album has been conceived as a showcase of Beethoven’s orchestral and pianistic genius. Cédric Tiberghien and the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, conducted by Enrique Mazzola, have come together for their first recording after enjoying five years of collaboration on the stage.
Read moreCédric Tiberghien – Bartók: Sonata for two pianos and percussion & other piano music (2017)
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A welcome return to the piano music of Béla Bartók and a programme which includes the popular Sonatina, the aggressively experimental Op 18 Études and the Piano Sonata of 1926, the composer’s ‘year of the piano’. Cédric Tiberghien is then joined by François-Frédéric Guy, Colin Currie and Sam Walton for the Sonata for two pianos and percussion—a high-spirited conclusion to this successful mini series.
Read moreCédric Tiberghien – Bartók: Mikrokosmos 6 & other piano music (2016)
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The remarkably gifted French pianist Cédric Tiberghien turns to the music of Béla Bartók in a wide-ranging programme including the famous Op 14 Suite and the sixth (and final—most ferocious in its technical demands) book of the Mikrokosmos project.
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Cédric Tiberghien – Ravel: Concertos pour piano – Mélodies (2022)
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Utilising to the full the unique timbres of their period instruments alongside a superb Pleyel piano of 1892, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles explore some of Ravel’s major works. With Cédric Tiberghien and Stéphane Degout, two of the finest specialists in this repertory, this recording provides an opportunity to hear many aspects of his colorful, kaleidoscopic world, from the youthful Pavane to the testamentary cycle Don Quichotte à Dulcinée.
Read moreAntoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien, Matthias Goerne – Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 – Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 (2021)
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It’s hard to imagine how anything could have been improved upon with this Brahms recital from three of Harmonia Mundi’s most sensitive and interesting artists.
The programming alone is a work of art: the idea of pairing the viola versions of Brahms’s two autumnal Op. 120 Clarinet Sonatas inspired by Meiningen Orchestra clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld, with three further softly intimate works of his showcasing the viola’s similarities with the human voice – viola and piano arrangements of Nachtigall from the six Op. 97 Songs (extra resonant, when Brahms described Mühlfeld as the nightingale of the orchestra) and the famous Op. 49 Wiegenlied, followed by the Op. 91 Zwei Gesänge for Voice, Viola and Piano.
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Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien – Bel Canto: The Voice of the Viola (2017)
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Here the diva is the viola!
How did the viola move from the status of ‘dramatic contralto among instrumental voices’ (to quote the critic Henri Blanchard) to ‘a character of nobility and languor’, according to Georg Kastner’s treatise on instrumentation (1837)? Going well beyond mere historical interest, this album answers the question by unveiling the charms of a repertory that delighted Parisian concert halls and salons throughout the 19th century. It tells the story of an instrument that at last emerged from the violin’s shadow thanks to immense virtuosos; and now the talent of two great musicians of our time brings back to life these pieces which offer much more than the exquisite languors of bel canto. The diva is the viola; its servant is named Antoine Tamestit. (Text from harmonia mundi label)