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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Gershwin: Piano Music
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 5/04/2010
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Gershwin: Music for Two Pianos
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 1/01/1988
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Glass: Cocteau Trilogy
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France el 23/02/2024
Álbum de la semana16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
en blanc et noir - The Debussy Album
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1/01/1996
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Tchaikovsky Fantasy
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 1/01/1994
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Monk: Ellis Island
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France el 7/04/2023
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Stravinsky: Concerto For 2 Pianos; 3 Movements From Petrushka; 5 Easy Pieces; 3 Easy Pieces
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Decca Music Group Ltd. el 24/08/1987
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Gershwin : Un Américain à Paris - Porgy & Bess (Fantaisie)
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 25/11/2005
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Chalmin: Eclipse
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France el 24/03/2023
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Golijov - Grau : Nazareno
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Gonzalo Grau, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Spain S.L. el 1/01/2011
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Gershwin: An American in Paris/Fantasy on Porgy & Bess
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque
Clásica - Editado por Warner Classics el 25/11/2005
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Dream House Quartet
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France el 14/04/2023
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Chalmin: Eclipse
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France el 24/03/2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Monk: Ellis Island
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner, David Chalmin
Clásica - Editado por Universal Music Division Decca Records France el 7/04/2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo