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For his first album with harmonia mundi, the young and brilliant Belgian pianist Julien Libeer opted for this incongruous Bach-Bartók double-header. He stumbled across the secret affinities that link these two composers while working on pieces by each of them in parallel. "There is a bitterness in them, a rejection of any and all affectation, but also polyphonic writing of extraordinary quality and a relationship to rhythm which renders them, if not identical, then at least complementary", the performer explained. And we have to admit: this project stands up pretty well.
Julien Libeer brought the two together by way of the dance suite. French Suite n° 5 and Partita n° 2 by J. S. Bach are brought up against Suite Op. 14 and the suite Out of Doors, a masterpiece of Bartók's piano music, offering five pastoral visions of the Hungary of the 1920s. As ever, Bartók's genius transcends his folk influences and works them magisterially into the modernity of his own language.
Alongside his work as a soloist and concert musician, Julien Libeer takes part in pedagogical projects that aim to share music beyond the confines of the concert or the record, in particular across nine schools in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, where he has created a high-level choir with his friend Zeno Popescu, in the hope of passing on the music bug to the young people of the neighbourhood. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
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Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Out of Doors, Sz. 81 (Béla Bartók)
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Partita in C Minor, BWV 826 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Suite for Piano, Op. 14 (Béla Bartók)
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Julien Libeer, Piano - Béla Bartók, Composer
2020 harmonia mundi 2019 harmonia mundi
Album review
For his first album with harmonia mundi, the young and brilliant Belgian pianist Julien Libeer opted for this incongruous Bach-Bartók double-header. He stumbled across the secret affinities that link these two composers while working on pieces by each of them in parallel. "There is a bitterness in them, a rejection of any and all affectation, but also polyphonic writing of extraordinary quality and a relationship to rhythm which renders them, if not identical, then at least complementary", the performer explained. And we have to admit: this project stands up pretty well.
Julien Libeer brought the two together by way of the dance suite. French Suite n° 5 and Partita n° 2 by J. S. Bach are brought up against Suite Op. 14 and the suite Out of Doors, a masterpiece of Bartók's piano music, offering five pastoral visions of the Hungary of the 1920s. As ever, Bartók's genius transcends his folk influences and works them magisterially into the modernity of his own language.
Alongside his work as a soloist and concert musician, Julien Libeer takes part in pedagogical projects that aim to share music beyond the confines of the concert or the record, in particular across nine schools in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, where he has created a high-level choir with his friend Zeno Popescu, in the hope of passing on the music bug to the young people of the neighbourhood. © François Hudry/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:02:23
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Julien Libeer
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: harmonia mundi
- Genre: Classical
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