Pierre-Laurent Aimard?’s latest album Schubert Ländler , released in May 2024, has been listed as one of the Boston Globe’s Top 10 best classical albums of the year . It also featured on The Times’ list of best classical albums of 2024 and was described as ?“captivating” …
Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s Schubert Ländler album receives review from Gramophone Schubert composed around 450 dances for piano. While their original function may have been modest, all are exemplary of their kind, and …
Schubert Ländler , recorded on Pentatone, includes over 100 of Schubert’s popular dance pieces. For Aimard, there is a kinship between Schubert’s Ländler and Kurtág’s Játékok, pieces that he often performs side …
Early next year, Aimard returns to the States for solo recitals in Chicago (Feb 25), San Francisco (Feb 27) and Philadelphia, where he pairs his performance with a masterclass (Feb 23).
The late Olivier Messiaen is another of the modernist masters with whom Aimard enjoyed especially close personal and professional ties.
This year marks the centennial of the birth of György Ligeti, with whom Aimard shared an intimate working relationship until the Hungarian composer’s death in 2006. In a recent essay for VAN magazine, Aimard describes his late friend as “the epitome of a polyglot and a free spirit,” whose music is “irresistible in its visual poetry and the power of its gestural, formal, rhythmic and tonal influence.”
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins forces with the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen for a recording of Bartók’s complete piano concertos . A pianist himself, Bartók imbued his three concertos with multiple aspects of his …
Aimard’s first Bartók concerto recording – made with Pierre Boulez, Stefanovich and the London Symphony Orchestra – was recognized with a Grammy nomination; to quote The Guardian, “In piano music like this he has no equal.”
Pierre-Laurent Aimard honored the 100th birthday of György Ligeti with an essay in Van Music Magazine.