Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Sun, May 11, 2025 4:00 PM
Smith Theatre | Horowitz Center HCC
Performance Information
Multi-award-winning French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet brings Chamber Music Maryland's season to a scintillating end with an acclaimed and personal program of Haydn and Ravel. Bavouzet, renowned as one of the most captivating live performers of his generation, will play selections from his complete album of Haydn's Sonatas, which Classics Today called "the best [recording] of this sonata on a modern instrumental that exists", and a significant selection of Ravel's works, for which the artist has won numerous awards from Gramophone Magazine. The 2024-25 Season marks the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth, making this program a fitting tribute to the French master.
After the concert, join artists and fellow concert-goers for champagne and chocolate in celebration of Chamber Music Maryland's 52nd season!
The Program
JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809): Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Presto
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Valses Nobles et Sentimentales I. Modéré, très franc II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense III. Modéré IV. Assez animé V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime VI. Vif VII. Moins vif VIII. Épilogue: Lent
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Gaspard de la nuit I. Ondine II. Le Gibet III. Scarbo
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JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809): Sonata No. 59 in E-flat major I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio cantabile III. Finale: Tempo di Menuet
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Le Tombeau de Couperin I. Prélude. Vif II. Fugue. Allegro moderato III. Forlane. Allegretto IV. Rigaudon: Assez vif V. Menuet: Allegro moderato VI. Toccata. Vif
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About The Artist
« He makes you listen to music as if you are discovering it Eureka!-style: yes, that’s what the composer must have meant.» (Financial Times). Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. He regularly works with the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NHK, Seoul Philharmonic, Taiwan Philharmonic and collaborates with many renowned conductors including…
