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Lucas Debargue

18 hours ago

27, July recital at the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron !!
A la suite de l’annulation de la performance que devait donner Arcadi Volodos demain 27 juillet au Parc du Château de Florans de la Roque d’Antheron, Lucas aura l’honneur d’assurer le concert avec son programme de récital Fauré - Beethoven - Chopin. Le lien 👇👇 ... Voir plusVoir moins

Lucas Debargue

7 days ago

Hello from Verbier Festival !!
Great to be back here to play 4 fantastic programs !! ... Voir plusVoir moins

Lucas Debargue

1 week ago

Great deeply analytical and well-understanding concert review about the recital at the Settimane Musicali Gustav Mahler Musikwochen.
Article in comment. 👇👇
Some passages:
"Debargue built an inspiring and well-thought program around Fauré, whose complete piano works he has just recorded, and compared Fauré’s role as an innovator at the threshold of the 20th century with great masters Chopin and Beethoven, who both gave piano music a new and revolutionary direction. He even went so far that played works of these three composers in same tonalities to show how radically different and forward-looking were Beethoven, Fauré and Chopin when writing in the same tonality, for instance "E" (Fauré Preludes, Beethoven’s E minor Sonata op. 90 and Chopin in the 4th Scherzo in E major). In the second half of recital, it was “C sharp” - Fauré Theme et Variations op. 73, Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" in C-sharp minor and also Chopin Ballade in A flat major uses C-sharp minor at its climax. Fauré was also teacher of the couple of great innovators in the history of modernism: Ravel and Enescu. They were Fauré’s star pupils.
Debargue's interpretations are throughout French; not only in terms of the national piano school, which is characterized by having attention to articulation and nuances in the opposite to more percussive, power style, but above all in terms of the imaginative and emphatically individual choice of repertoire.
In Debargue's play you can sense Pascal's "restlessness of the heart", fed equally by mind and emotions, "l'esprit et de finesse et esprit de geometrie", balance between expression and precisely calculated speed between tempo and cantability.
Debargue's pianistic ability is characterized by his sharp mind and stylistic instinct, virtuosity that playfully produces rich range of touches with an optimally psychological piano posture, with a freely hanging and relaxed forearm. He places his large hand over the keyboard, where his long fingers, like tentacles rather caress keys than hit them. He loves “chiaroscuro” dynamics. When he acts in the semi-darknes, he suddenly dives into the shadow of extremely quiet tone with the most violent forte. It is stunning how he suddenly darkens the melody in the stormy last movement of the "Moonlight Sonata" and produces an echo as if from a distance.
Then the climax of his bravura: the 4th Scherzo and the 3rd Ballade by Chopin. His two encores, however, swirled again around of Spiritus Rector of his program: Gabriel Fauré. Great success, long-lasting applause." ... Voir plusVoir moins

Lucas Debargue

2 weeks ago

Visit at the Settimane Musicali Gustav Mahler Musikwochen to Gustav Mahler's mountain cabin where he wrote his 8th and 9th Symphony and "Das Lied von der Erde". ... Voir plusVoir moins

Lucas Debargue

2 weeks ago

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Lucas Debargue

2 weeks ago

Merci Lysiane Ganousse ! Hâte d’être de retour aux festival Nancyphonies le 13 juillet !

In the interview "Fauré demands a deeper quality of listening. My challenge: to take as many listeners as possible on this inner journey. And I have deliberately included in my programme some very well-known pieces (by Beethoven and Chopin) and others that are hardly known at all, to allow the audience to try out different ways of listening !" ... Voir plusVoir moins