Junko Okazaki, piano : Fauré, Ravel

Presented by JUNKO OKAZAKI (PLATESV-D-2023-006822). Music and the ineffable. “Muted, even in their outbursts, the music of Fauré and Ravel ‘needs the silence of words to sing’, as the philosopher Jankélévitch would say. Abstract and immaterial, they reject eloquence, that aestheticized pain, preferring what cannot be defined: in one, what floats between earth and sky; in the other, the charm of light and smiling dances. Such Nocturnes and Le Tombeau de Couperin will be performed by pianist Junko Okazaki.” Didier Lemaire.

PROGRAM: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Nocturne No. 1 Op. 33-1 Nocturne No. 4 Op. 36 Nocturne No. 6 Op. 63 Nocturne No. 11 Op. 104-1 Nocturne No. 12 Op. 107 Nocturne No. 13 Op. 119 Intermission Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) – Le Tombeau de Couperin