Laurent Mauvingnier

Pierre-Laurent Aimard has for decades acted as the foremost contemporary exponent of modern piano music, building a reputation for profound musicality across the works of widely varied composers and even further-ranging techniques. In an immensely satisfying traversal of the genre, this 6 disc set of Debussy, Ravel, Boulez, Berg, Ives, Messiaen, Ligeti, and Carter works is a snapshot of Aimard doing some of the best work of his storied career.

Everything is always a question of cycle with Laurent Dehors, where the importance is to remain constant. Consistency is the fabulous entropy machine that gets started in "Les Oiseaux", with its hoarse and catchy sound that opposes the chirping of the reeds. We are in a known universe, which we would have changed the interior … After spending a moment with the pianist Matthew Bourne, here the Norman musician privileges another section of his orchestra for a meeting in small committee. The proponents of rock, to hear the direction taken by the young guitarist Gabriel Gosse on the generous "Too Fast", where the drummer Franck Vaillant makes speak his inventiveness voluble. Laurent Dehors has never been afraid to go on this ground, and it is not Sheep who will contradict him.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard honours Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday (October 22, 1811) with his most ambitious recording for Deutsche Grammophon to date. In this extensive 2-CD set, Aimard juxtaposes a selection of Liszt’s works with compositions by Liszt’s contemporaries and successors who were inspired by the Hungarian composer. Recorded live in Vienna’s Konzerthaus over two evenings, Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s Liszt project is a pinnacle of the Liszt Year commemorations.