Bach, Schumann, Janáček & Bartók: En plein air

Featuring

David Kadouch
Johann Sebastian Bach
Robert Schumann
Leoš Janáček
Béla Bartók

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Compositional Technique

Bartók's Out of Doors (1926) exhibits an aesthetic ambiguity, combining a percussive, 'sonic cubism' with mimetic elements, particularly in 'The Night's Music,' creating a 'psychedelic' sound.

Performer Biography

David Kadouch has received guidance from renowned pianists and musicians such as Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini, Maria João Pires, Daniel Barenboim, and Itzhak Perlman.

Composition History

Schumann's Waldszenen (Forest Scenes) were composed after his opera Genoveva, whose fourth act takes place in a 'dense and disturbing forest where death lurks,' a theme central to the Waldszenen.

Performer Biography

David Kadouch, born in 1985, began piano studies at a young age and was admitted to the prestigious CNSM de Paris at 14, later studying with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid.

Album & Artwork

The album title "En plein air" (Out of Doors) refers to the concept of the 'distant space, glimpsed through the window, which attracts and disturbs' in the featured works.

Performer Biography

David Kadouch was recognized as 'Révélation Jeune Talent' at the Victoires de la Musique in 2010 and 'Young Artist of the Year' at the Classical Music Awards in 2011.

Composition History

Bach's Capriccio was written when he was twenty years old, inspired by his brother Johann Jacob leaving to serve King Charles XII, and conveys a gloomy premonition of never reuniting.