Un monde Fantastique Jean-Baptiste Doulcet

• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886): Paraphrase sur la valse de Faust de Charles Gounod, S. 407:
• 1 Liszt: Paraphrase sur la valse de Faust de Charles Gounod, S. 407 11:31
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Liederkreis, Op. 39 (Transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt, S. 568):
• 2 Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39 (Transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt, S. 568): No. 12, Frühlingsnacht 02:54
• Kreisleriana, Op. 16:
• 3 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: I. Äußerst bewegt 03:03
• 4 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch 08:42
• 5 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: III. Sehr aufgeregt 04:27
• 6 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: IV. Sehr langsam 03:08
• 7 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: V. Sehr lebhaft 03:23
• 8 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VI. Sehr langsam 04:24
• 9 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VII. Sehr rasch 02:14
• 10 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VIII. Schnell und spielend 03:23
• Myrthen, Op. 25 (Transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt, S. 566):
• 11 Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25 (Transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt, S. 566): No. 1, Widmung 03:54
• Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage deuxieme année (Italie), S. 161:
• 12 Liszt: Années de pèlerinage deuxieme année (Italie), S. 161: VII. Après une lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi Sonata 18:43
• Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (b. 1992): Endymion:
• 13 Doulcet: Endymion 07:54
• Total Runtime 01:17:40

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“This fantasy world is a programme designed as a mirror, which is held up to our daily surroundings and where puzzling poetry abounds, creating a world simultaneously characterized by legends, lightness, and metaphysical depth too.” Jean-Baptiste Doulcet pays tribute to the fantasy literature that pervades the Romantic repertoire by combining Schumann, Liszt, and his own composition inspired by a poem by John Keats, an open door to an uncertain and poetic language.

Jean-Baptiste Doulcet, piano

Jean-Baptiste Doulcet
Born in 1992 in Paris, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet is a pianist, improviser and composer.

He won in 2019 the 4th prize and the audience prize of the Long-Thibaud competition (presided by Martha Argerich), and the Modern Times' prize in Clara Haskil 2019 (pres. Christian Zacharias). He is also laureate of the 2nd prize of the 8th Piano Nordic Competition and laureate of the Charles Oulmont's foundation.

Considered as one of the rising stars of french piano alongside Alexandre Kantorow and Rémi Geniet (Classica Magazine), he released his first CD (from a live concert) on Beethoven, Schumann and his own improvisations on audience's themes (Les Spiriades, 2017). His second album (Schumann and Liszt), has been released in 2022 with the label Mirare.

We heard him these last years in France (Paris Philharmony, Pleyel, Gaveau, Cortot, La Folle Journée, La Roque d'Anthéron, Nohant, Lisztomania...), in Denmark, United States, China, Italy, Germany... Known for his musical personality as much as a soloist than a chamber music partner (he played alongside the Oistrakh String Quartet, Augustin Dumay, Marc Coppey, Quatuor Hermès, Quatuor Arod...), but also for his improvisation concerts, Jean-Baptiste is a complete artist.

After studying in Paris Conservatory (CNSMdp) with Claire Désert (piano and chamber music), Thierry Escaich and Jean-François Zygel (improvisation), he has worked with great names of piano pedagogy : Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist who follows and works with him since two years, Dmitri Bashkirov, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Epifanio Comis, Alexey Lebedev...

As a composer, he wrote more than twenty works for soloist instruments, chamber music or larger ensemble. The Gewandhaus commissioned him a second string quartet, premiered in 2018 in Leipzig ; his Piano Trio has been played in Paris' Le Petit Palais, and artists as Raphaël Pidoux from the Trio Wanderer, or Mona Quartet, are playing his works.

His Trilogy of passion for 12 cellos - from Goethe's poems - is edited and printed at Alfonce Productions.

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