« Jean-Philippe Collard is an outwardly quiet performer who does not go in for heart-on-the-sleeve emoting. Instead, he develops his interpretations thoughtfully, establishing a mood or building a dramatic climax almost without one’s being aware of what is happening. As a result, the music seems to live a life of its own, almost independent of the pianist’s ministrations, which is as it should be ».
(The New York Times)
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A unique achievement in Jean-Philippe Collard’s discography, this piano programme devoted to Busoni’s transcriptions of Bach’s organ works is the result of a deep desire and represents a great accomplishment. Jean-Philippe Collard has been driven by three objectives : to immerse himself in Bach’s organ music, to which he has always been attached; to reconnect this passion back to a youth nourished by the great sacred works of the Cantor ; and to pay tribute to his musician father, who instilled this culture in him and continues to inspire him today. There is also the ambition of creating an innovative project, outside of the repertoires that have established his talent, following some sixty recordings, and at the height of an artistic career that calls for a form of synthesis, not of his career, but of a family history with the piano, of which Bach seems to him to be the greatest common denominator.
Borrowing from organ terminology, the expression ‘full organ’ here symbolically expresses the notion of plenitude and the magnitude of a total pianistic undertaking.
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Bach galvanisé par Busoni …..
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