Jean-Nicolas Diatkine, piano

Presented by JEAN-NICOLAS DIATKINE (PLATESV-D-2023-006822) Music beyond words Inspired by the French romantic poet Aloysius Bertrand and by the fantastic atmosphere dear to Hoffmann, Ravel goes beyond the initial framework to bring us into a sound universe unknown until him. After crossing the threshold of this realm of the imagination, one can only bow before the one who reigns there as master through the very constraint that the weakness of his hearing imposed on him: Beethoven and his ultimate sonata op.111, which he could only hear in spirit. Finally, one finds the poetic and romantic spirit of Adam Mickiewicz, through Chopin's Ballades whose elaboration is so powerful that it dispenses with any explicit reference: « let them guess », he would say. PROGRAM M. Ravel – Gaspard de la nuit L. Beethoven – Sonata n°32 op.111 F. Chopin – Four Ballades