Debussy: 2 Preludes: La cathédrale engloutie & La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Ondine
Le Gibet
Scarbo
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Brahms: Sextet No. 2 in G, Op 36
Belcea Quartet
Diyang Mei, viola
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Brahms may have concealed a sorrowful love story in his second sextet: one motif represents the woman he almost married…and then didn’t. It opens with a tenderly ethereal whisper and ends with some of the most exhilarating music he ever wrote. Chamayou, perhaps the leading French pianist of the moment, offers a selection of Debussy solo piano music before the interval.
