Rethinking Liszt | Emmanuel Despax in Conversation with Petroc Trelawny

Coinciding with the release of his new Liszt album on ‪@SignumRecords‬, French pianist Emmanuel Despax engages in an in-depth conversation with British broadcaster Petroc Trelawny. Discover Despax’s profound connection to Liszt and his unique perspective on the composer’s works.
Listen to the album:
lnk.to/LisztPianoWorks
Chapters:
00:00 - Lineage
02:18 - Proximity to the composer
04:09 - Performance ethos
05:18 - Placing works in context
07:27 - Learning new repertoire
08:25 - Approach to the score
09:04 - Technique and risk-taking
12:02 - Risk-taking in Liszt’s Sonata
14:29 - Presenting Liszt’s Sonata
17:04 - Motivic analysis in the Sonata
20:57 - Rethinking Liszt and his influence
23:11 - The hero theme
25:46 - The autograph manuscript
26:25 - The Sonata’s ending
29:01 - Ruth Nye and passing the torch
31:02 - Recording process
35:19 - Mental health
39:32 - Avoiding burnout
Filming:
‪@KnightClassical‬
Filmed at World Heart Beat, Embassy Gardens, London.
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[@elsondeo]

Thoroughly enjoyable! I loved your discussion of the risk inherent in distant leaps. Not all passages were meant to be "prettified."

[@EmmanuelDespax]

Many thanks!

[@ulfwernernielsen6708]

Arrau went to play Bach on a modern grand piano after listening to his own recording of the Goldberg variations. The was in 1987 . His last recording was 4 Bach Partitas . That was in 1991 , 3 months before his death.

[@brucehain]

I hear that Arrau called it the roadrunner in reference to the 1st two notes.