Brahms & Schumann: Works for Cello and Piano Bruno Philippe and Tanguy de Williencourt

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38:
• 1 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo 14:40
• 2 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: II. Allegro quasi menuetto 05:44
• 3 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: III. Allegro 06:51
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Fantasiestücke for Cello and Piano, Op. 73:
• 4 Schumann: Fantasiestücke for Cello and Piano, Op. 73: I. Zart und mit Ausdruck 03:16
• 5 Schumann: Fantasiestücke for Cello and Piano, Op. 73: II. Lebhaft, leicht 03:20
• 6 Schumann: Fantasiestücke for Cello and Piano, Op. 73: III. Rasch und mit Feuer 04:11
• Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99:
• 7 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: I. Allegro vivace 08:51
• 8 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affetuoso in F-Sharp Major 06:35
• 9 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: III. Allegro passionato in F Minor 06:49
• 10 Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: IV. Allegro molto 04:32
• Total Runtime 01:04:49

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For their first recording, Bruno and Tanguy have chosen three masterpieces of Romantic chamber music. Throughout this programme, the piano carries on a dialogue with the sound of the cello in a fascinating polyphony, bearing witness to a unique moment of poetry, magic, and complicity.

"Two young French musicians offer promising and subtly interpreted performances of these central works of the Romantic cello repertoire for their début album." (The Strad)

Bruno Philippe, cello
Tanguy de Williencourt, piano

Bruno Philippe
was born in 1993 in Perpignan. There, he began studying the cello with Marie-Madeleine Mille and regularly attended Yvan Chiffoleau’s masterclasses. In 2008, he pursued his studies at the CRR in Paris in the class of Raphael Pidoux. In 2009 he was unanimously accepted by the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance in the class of Jerome Pernoo and joined Claire Desert’s chamber music class. Subsequently, he participated in the masterclasses of David Geringas, Steven Isserliss, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

He has, since October 2014, been studying as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson.

In November 2011, he won the third Grand Prix and the Best recital at the André Navarra International Competition. In September 2014, he won the third prize and audience prize at the International Competition of the ARD in Munich.

Bruno Philippe is regularly invited to perform at the Kammersaal of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cité de la Musique, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse and to play with the Bayerische Rundfunk, the Munich Kammerorchestrer, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, under the direction of conductors such as Bruno Mantovani and Michel Tabachnik. In 2013, he was notably invited to the Kursaal Besançon to play the Elgar concerto.

Bruno Philippe also performs at the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, the Festival of Hix, the Folle Journée de Nantes, the Vacances de Monsieur Haydn in La Roche-Posay, Musique à Deauville, the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, the Roque in Anthéron, the Amsterdam Cello Biennale … He has the opportunity to play with renowned musicians: Gary Hoffman, Renaud Capuçon, Jerome Ducros, Tamestit, Sarah Nemtanu Lise Berthaud, Christophe Coin, Jerome Pernoo, Raphael Pidoux, Emmanuelle Bertrand, as well as French Cellos or Dissonances (David Grimal). In 2009, he recorded the duet opus 54 No. 1 by Offenbach with Raphael Pidoux for Integral Classic.

He has already been invited to the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland and the Festival de Pâques of Aix-en-Provence in 2015.

Bruno Philippe was awarded scholarships from the Safran Foundation for music, the Raynaud-Zurfluh Foundation, the Foundation Rheingold, the AMOPA, the Banque Populaire Foundation, and in August 2014 won the Nicolas Firmenich price at the Verbier Festival. He also received the support of the « Christa Verhein-Stiftung » for his studies at the Kronberg Academy. Since March 2012, he plays with a Fanck Ravatin cello on loan from Mécénat Musical Société Générale.

Tanguy de Williencourt
studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Roger Muraro, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Claire Désert, and obtained a Masters in piano and accompaniment with distinction. He is now on the Artist Diploma Programme.

Studying lieder and mélodies with Jeff Cohen and Anne le Bozec, and orchestral conducting with Nicolas Brochot and George Pehlivanian, he won the 2008 Yamaha Competition, was runner-up in the 2013 Fauré Competition, and he received bursaries from the Or du Rhin, Blüthner and Meyer Foundations.

Tanguy de Williencourt has attended many masterclasses with Jacques Rouvier, Anne Queffélec, Christian Ivaldi, Christoph Eschenbach and the Wanderer Trio, and continues to work with Paul Badura-Skoda and Eric Heidsieck.

He has been invited to perform at a number of festivals – Chopin à Bagatelle, Piano à Lyon, La Folle Journée de Nantes, La Roque d’Anthéron – and in such prestigious venues as the Cité de la Musique de Paris, the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, the Alti Hall in Kyoto and the Berlin Philharmonie’s Kammersaal.

He had the opportunity to perform with distinguished musicians such as Olivier Charlier, Patrice Fontanarosa, Jérôme Pernoo, and with the Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ensemble Matheus.

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