Monneuse, Denis

Cette sélection de plus de deux cent vingt exercices couvre l'ensemble du programme des spé MP et PSI. Les chapitres du programme sont méthodiquement visités l'un après l'autre, et l'éclairage exceptionnel qu'apporte l'auteur sur l'ensemble de ce champ mathématique est le fruit d'une haute expérience en la matière. …

Russian pianist Denis Matsuev has established himself as one of the most dynamic and virtuosic performers of his generation, and his program on this RCA album with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic is ideally suited to his extraordinary abilities. The pairing of Sergey Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is a natural one, particularly because of the works' shared post-romanticism (note Rachmaninov's influence on Gershwin's slow theme in the Rhapsody), as well as for the dazzling writing for the piano in both works. Of course, the challenge for Matsuev is to make his part appear effortless, and he succeeds so well in both performances that listeners may be a bit blasé about his playing, taking it in without really considering what knuckle-busters these pieces really are.