Alexandre Tharaud

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Alexandre Tharaud (born December 9, 1968 in Paris ) is a French pianist .

Life

From the age of five, Tharaud had piano lessons from Carmen Taccon-Devenat , a student of Marguerite Long . At the Conservatoire de Paris he entered the class of Germaine Mounier . At the age of seventeen he received first prize in piano and then perfected his training with Theodor Paraskivesco , Nikita Magaloff , Claude Helffer and Leon Fleisher . He received third prize at the Concurs Internacional Maria Canals in Barcelona in 1987 and second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in 1989 in Munich.

He has performed as a soloist with various French orchestras (such as the Orchester National de France or the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France), the Sinfonia Varsovia , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and under conductors such as Yutaka Sado , Georges Prêtre , Marc Minkowski and Jean-Jacques Kantorow . As a chamber musician he worked a. a. with the violinist Pierre Amoyal , the flautists Patrick Gallois and Philippe Bernold , the clarinetists Michel Portal and Michel Lethiec and the cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras , with whom he recorded Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in 2006 .

Tharaud gave world premieres of compositions by Renaud Gagneux , Jacques Lenots , Guillaume Connessons , Thierry Pécous , Thierry Escaichs and Olivier Greifs . He became known on the record market in 2001 with a recording of the harpsichord suites Jean-Philippe Rameau . He has received several awards for his complete recording of Maurice Ravel's piano works . In 2004 he received the Edison Award . With the pianist Éric Le Sage , the violinist Isabelle Faust , the trumpeter David Guerrier and the singers Jean Delescluse and Juliette Noureddine , he recorded compositions by Erik Satie in 2009 . In 2011 he was awarded an ECHO Klassik Prize for his recording of Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas . In 2012 he took on a supporting role as the pianist in Michael Haneke's Liebe and recorded the Schubert pieces that appear in the film. In 2013 he was again honored with the ECHO Klassik "Classics without borders".

Discography

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
FR FR MOVE BE W CH CH
2005 Bach: Concertos italiens FR60 (8 weeks)
FR 		BE W67 (4 weeks)
BE W 		-
2006 Chopin: Valses FR107 (9 weeks)
FR 		- -
Schubert: Arpeggione sonata FR188 (2 weeks)
FR 		- -
2007 Couperin: Tic toc choc FR96 (12 weeks)
FR 		- -
2008 Chopin: Preludes FR116 (8 weeks)
FR 		- -
Sonata N ° 1. Valse. Scherzo. intermezzo FR145 (4 weeks)
FR 		- -
with Jean-Guihen Queyras
2009 Satie: Avant-dernières pensées FR41 (17 weeks)
FR 		BE W90 (1 week)
BE W 		-
Chopin: Journal intimate FR77 (13 weeks)
FR 		- -
2010 Chopin: Valses (2010) FR94 (7 weeks)
FR 		- -
Baroque FR194 (1 week)
FR 		- -
2011 D. Scarlatti: Sonatas FR67 (8 weeks)
FR 		- -
Concertos pour piano - JS Bach FR55 (10 weeks)
FR 		- -
2012 Le Bœuf sur le toit - Swinging Paris FR37 (17 weeks)
FR 		BE W81 (12 weeks)
BE W 		-
2013 Autograph FR76 (7 weeks)
FR 		BE W128 (3 weeks)
BE W 		-
2014 Mozart - Haydn: Jeunehomme FR101 (3 weeks)
FR 		BE W135 (1 week)
BE W 		-
2015 Bach: Goldberg Variations FR38 (11 weeks)
FR 		BE W43 (7 weeks)
BE W 		-
2016 Tharaud Plays Rachmaninov FR63 (8 weeks)
FR 		BE W110 (3 weeks)
BE W 		-
2017 Barbara FR45 (6 weeks)
FR 		BE W43 (17 weeks)
BE W 		CH80 (1 week)
CH
2019 Versailles FR70 (6 weeks)
FR 		BE W153 (3 weeks)
BE W 		-

More albums

  • 1992: Maurice Ravel: Prélude, Miroirs, Sérénade grotesque etc.
  • 1992: Darius Milhaud: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour violon et piano
  • 1993: Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces
  • 1995: Darius Mihaud: Piano Music. Saudades do Brazil, La Muse ménagère, L'Album de Madame Bovary
  • 1997: Musique française pour Clarinette et Piano (with Ronald van Spaendonck )
  • 1998: Emmanuel Chabrier: L'œuvre pour piano (vol. 1 à 3)
  • 1999: Francis Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music (vol. 1 à 5)
  • 1999: Albert Roussel: Concertos pour orchester
  • 1999: Reynaldo Hahn: Quintette arve piano (with le Quatuor Parisii )
  • 1999: Camille Saint-Saëns, Paul Ladmiradlt: Le Carnaval des animaux, Les Mémoire d'un âne de Ladmirault
  • 1999: Franz Schubert: Moments musicaux D780, Sonate D664, Danses allemandes et Écossaises D783
  • 2001: Zoltán Kodály: Sonatine pour violoncelle et piano, Adagio pour violoncelle et piano (with Jean-Guihen Queyras )
  • 2001: Alexandre Tharaud joue Rameau
  • 2003: Franz Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise (with Zhu Xiao-Mei )
  • 2003: Mauricio Kagel: Rrrrrrr ..., Ludwig van, Der Eid des Hippokrates, Unguis incarnatus est, MM 51
  • 2003: Maurice Ravel: L'œuvre pour piano
  • 2004: Thierry Pécou: Outre-Mémoire
  • 2008: Thierry Pécou: L'oiseau innumérable
  • 2012: Amour

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  1. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Chart sources: FR BEW CH

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personal data
SURNAME Tharaud, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris