Lumen

Featuring

Camille El Bacha
Johann Sebastian Bach
Frédéric Chopin

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Composer's Artistic Vision

The album 'Lumen' is born from Camille El Bacha's spontaneous urge to blend piano masterpieces with his personal pieces and ephemeral creations, aiming to place his inspirations into a timeless 'echo chamber' rather than deconstructing the repertoire.

Performer Biography

Camille El Bacha, the pianist, improviser, and composer, developed his unique musical language in Jean-François Zygel's improvisation class at the Paris Conservatoire.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Camille El Bacha, the pianist, improviser, and composer on this album, aims to highlight the improvisatory dimension of the prelude, which he considers its quintessential element.

Interpretation

Camille El Bacha's program combines his own compositions with preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach (from The Well-Tempered Clavier) and Frédéric Chopin (the 24 Préludes Op. 28), creating a single musical tableau.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Camille El Bacha views composing, performing, and improvising as three facets of the same creative process, moving between them almost unconsciously at the piano.

Compositional Technique

A melodic leitmotiv, introduced at the beginning with a few metrically free notes, reappears throughout the program in improvised interludes, shaping and transforming it.

Composer Biography

Camille El Bacha's pianistic approach, though rooted in classical music, shares similarities with that of a jazz musician and aligns with an 18th and 19th-century tradition where composers often improvised after performing their own works.