Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev: Ballets Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt

• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): Three Movements from Petrushka:
• 1 Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka: I. Russian Dance 02:34
• 2 Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka: II. In Petrushka's Room 04:39
• 3 Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka: III. The Shrovetide Fair 08:49
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): La Valse, M. 72:
• 4 Ravel: La Valse, M. 72 13:07
• Sergey Prokofiev (1891 - 1953): Romeo and Juliet, Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75 (excerpts):
• 5 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75 (excerpts): I. Juliet as a Young Girl 03:52
• 6 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75 (excerpts): II. Mercutio 02:23
• 7 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75 (excerpts): III. Montagues and Capulets 04:21
• 8 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75 (excerpts): IV. Romeo and Juliet before Parting 10:05
• Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61:
• 9 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: I. Modéré. Très franc 01:22
• 10 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense 02:41
• 11 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: III. Modéré 01:27
• 12 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: IV. Assez animé 01:10
• 13 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime 01:39
• 14 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: VI. Vif 00:46
• 15 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: VII. Moins vif 03:08
• 16 Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: VIII. Épilogue, lent 04:37
• Total Runtime 01:06:40

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Against the backdrop of it's decors, ballet offers itself up as a spectacle, arousing admiration and enchantment. In the early twentieth century, from the Palais Garnier to the Bolshoi, from the Châtelet to the Mariinsky, the shimmering colors of the orchestra were often combined with the innovative choreography of the Ballets Russes. The music to which these ballets were danced, assigned to illustrious composers, could hardly be for piano, which was tolerated only to accompany the dancers in their rehearsal studios. But is that really the case? If so, then why are there so many piano versions made by the composers themselves, alongside the orchestral ones? Jean- Baptiste Fonlupt answers that question here with dazzling imagination and virtuosity.

Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt, piano

Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt
Born in 1976, Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt began studying the piano at the age of six with Jeanine Collet and Christian Bernard at the Conservatoire in Grenoble. At the age of thirteen he won the Royaume de la Musique competition and performed Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto with the Orchestre Colonne at the Maison de la Radio in Paris. One year later, he won 1st prize at the Steinway Young Piano Talents competition, through which he has appeared as a soloist at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

In 1991 he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (class of Bruno Rigutto). He also took lessons with Georges Pludermacher, the Russian-Georgian pianist Eliso Virsaladze and the German pianist Michael Endres in Berlin.

Interested in all kinds of repertoire, from Johann Sebastian Bach to contemporary music, his discography also reflects a particular focus on the lesser-known repertoire; he has recorded rare works by Franz Liszt and piano sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. In 2014 he recorded a CD devoted to Chopin for which he was acclaimed Revelation 2014 Chopi at the Nohant Festival. In 2016 he released a new recording dedicated to Robert Schumann (Variations Abegg, Arabesque, Novelletten Nos. 2, 7 and 8, Gesänge der Frühe and Geistervariationnen).

He appears at festivals in France and internationally, most recently in Liszt en Provence, the Piano aux Jacobins, the series Soliste à Bagatelle, Piano en Valois, the Lisztomanias in Châteauroux, the Esprit du Piano in Bordeaux, the Chopin Festival in Nohant, the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto (Italy) and the International Piano Festival at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg (Russia). He has performed at such prestigious venues as the Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany) and the Konzerthaus in Vienna (Austria). He has been invited to Caracas (Venezuela) as a soloist for the world premiere of Anamorphoses for piano and orchestra by French composer Joseph-François Kremer with the Simón Bolívar Orchestra conducted by Christian Vásquez. This concert is regularly broadcast on the TV music channel Mezzo.

His recordings have been broadcast on radio – the Portraits de famille broadcast presented by Philippe Cassard, the Carrefour de Lodéon and the Plaisirs d’amour broadcasts presented by Frédéric Lodéon and the En pistes! broadcast presented by Émilie Munera and Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier.

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