Nour Ayadi

The young prodigy Nour Ayadi deploys the broad range of her talents in this concert featuring the refinement of Rameau, the powerful Dantesque visions of Liszt, and the virtual poetry of Debussy.

It is with the delicate art of the Baroque harpsichord that this recital begins, since Rameau’s Suite en ré, part of his Deuxième Livre from 1724, contains some of the composer’s most beautiful pieces, between effusive melancholy, impulsive humour and mysterious visions. Debussy, himself author of an Homage to Rameau, is represented by the tormented virtuoso vertigo of his Masques from 1904, offering the “dark" side of his Verlainian inspiration, and by D’un cahier esquisses, whose almost visual sonic seduction foreshadows Estampes and Images. A crowning achievement of the second of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage, Après une lecture de Dante is a furious, epic, infernal, lugubrious and unbridled piece that reaches, ahead of the Sonata in B minor, a summit of Lisztian piano. A vast perusal of the Romanticism of Schumann, the Symphonic etudes adopt the form of a theme with variations, going from raging virtuosity to imponderable nocturnal poetry.

Piano Nour Ayadi

^{© Bruno Tocaben}

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Suite en ré (selection)

Claude Debussy
D’un cahier d’esquisses
Masques

Franz Liszt
Après une lecture de Dante

Robert Schumann
Symphonic etudes op. 13