Marielle Labèque
Marielle Labèque is a French pianist known for her long collaboration with her sister in the Katia and Marielle Labèque piano duo. She also co-founded the Studio KML and KML Recordings label, which supports young and experimental recording artists. She was born in Bayonne in 1952, and both of her parents were musicians. Her father sang in the choir of the Bordeaux Opera, and her mother, Ada Cecchi, was a pianist and former student of Marguerite Long. Labèque and her older sister Katia began learning the piano from their mother in 1955, and later they studied piano at the Paris Conservatory. After her graduation in 1968 she started learning four-hand and two-piano repertoire with her sister under Jean Hubeau in the cycle de perfectionnement, and in 1969 they made their recording debut with the album Olivier Messiaen: Visions De L'Amen. They continued in this genre through the '70s and became very popular, but they gained worldwide acclaim after their 1980 album Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue sold over 500,000 copies. They performed and recorded the standard repertoire and new works by composers such as Philip Glass, Luciano Berio, and Arvo Pärt. Labèque and her sister explored Baroque repertoire in the late '90s and performed under many of the top conductors of the genre, including Simon Rattle, John Eliot Gardiner, and Andrea Marcon. It was also around this time when Labèque married conductor Semyon Bychkov. After a ten-year-long break from recording, she cofounded the KML Recordings label with her sister in 2007, where they released their own records and those of young and experimental ensembles from other genres, such as Dream House, Kalakan, and Red Velvet. Labèque remained very active with the piano duo through the 2010s and recorded several albums on the KML label, including Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Bernstein: West Side Story and Minimalist Dream House. Since 2020 she has appeared on the albums Nazareno: Bernstein, Stravinsky, Golijov and Dream House Quartet. Labèque resides with her sister in a palace in Rome and travels with her husband.
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Glass: Cocteau Trilogy
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 23.02.2024
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Dream House Quartet
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 14.04.2023
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Liszt: Music for Two Pianos. Réminiscences de Don Juan & 2 Episodes from Lenau's Faust
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 08.12.2023
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Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto in F
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.1980
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion & Pieces from Mikrokosmos
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Sylvio Gualda, Jean Pierre Drouet
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 01.01.1972
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Gladrags
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 01.01.1983
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Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Cuban Overture / Lullaby
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, The Cleveland Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.1987
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Prokofiev: Pierre et le loup - Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux
Jacques Higelin, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 14.08.2020
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Prokofiev: Peter und der Wolf - Saint-Saëns: Der Karnaval der Tiere
André Heller, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 28.08.2020
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Bizet: Jeux d'enfants / Fauré: Dolly Suite / Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 10.06.1987
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fauré: Dolly Suite; Nocturnes; Barcarolles; Impromptus
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Pascal Rogé
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Piano Fantasy: Music For Two Pianos
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Poulenc/Milhaud: Concerto in D minor for 2 Pianos/Scaramouche etc.
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.1989
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
España!
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 06.05.1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dvorák: Slavonic Dances
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mendelssohn & Bruch: Concertos For 2 Pianos
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Philharmonia Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 02.04.1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bartók : Double concerto pour piano - Double sonate pour piano
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Sylvio Gualda, Jean Pierre Drouet, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 01.01.2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: 21 Hungarian Dances
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.08.1981
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mendelssohn, Bruch: Konzerte für 2 Klaviere
Marielle Labèque, Katia Labèque, Philharmonia Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca am 02.04.1993
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 7 & 10
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Berliner Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.06.1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes & Suite No. 2
Moura Lympany, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics International am 01.11.1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo