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Pierre-Laurent Aimard
12+ albums
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (born 9 September 1957) is a French pianist. He was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod. In 1973, he was awarded the chamber music prize of the Paris Conservatoire. In the same year he won the first prize at the international Olivier Messiaen Competition. In 1977, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he became a founding member of the Ensemble InterContemporain. Aimard has collaborated with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, André Previn, James Levine, Andrew Davis, David Robertson, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. He made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty, performing the piano solo part in Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie. Aimard is particularly committed to contemporary music. He was the soloist in several premieres of works such as Répons by Pierre Boulez, Klavierstück XIV by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and the eleventh and thirteenth piano études of György Ligeti. One of his most notable recordings is that of the first two books of Ligeti's piano études. He has also performed the work of contemporary composers such as George Benjamin and Marco Stroppa. Aimard was one of Carnegie Hall's "Perspectives" artists for the 2006-2007 concert season, where he programmed his own series of concerts. In addition to his work with contemporary music, Aimard has recorded the five Beethoven piano concertos with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and t
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Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982) [Hommage à Brahms]/IV. Lamento. Adagio (Instrumental)
1,5412Messiaen : Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus : III L'échange
1,3563J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 - later version of the original print edited by Christoph Wolff - Contrapunctus 9. a 4 alla Duodecima
1,2704Messiaen : Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus : XI Première communion de la Vierge
1,0615Messiaen : Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus : XV Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus
8126Contrapunctus I
8017Contrapunctus II
7368Contrapunctus III
7199Contrapunctus IV
69610Contrapunctus V
665albums
The Liszt Project - Bartók; Berg; Messiaen; Ravel; Scriabin; Stroppa; Wagner
Messaien : Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus
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111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon
Schumann : Etudes Symphoniques & Carnaval
Ligeti: Études; Musica Ricercata
Ravel : Gaspard de la Nuit
African Rhythms
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I
Ravel: The Piano Concertos; Miroirs
Debussy: Préludes Books 1 & 2
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Debussy: Préludes Books 1 2
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Beethoven : Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 5