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Chopin by Collard

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Chopin was born two centuries ago (1810-2010). On this occasion, Emi has just published old recordings by Jean-Philippe Collard (made in the '90). The first one proposes the four Ballades...

Neuburger and Engerer at the "Folle Journée" in Nantes

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Brigitte Engerer played during the "Folle Journée" in Nantes, devoted this year to Chopin. Let's see again : - the first one playing Chopin's 12 Etudes...

A concert for Haïti on February 20th

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

On Saturday February 20th, at 3.30 pm, at the Théâtre du Ranelagh(5, rue des Vignes, 75016 Paris), will take place, at the initiative of the violonist Stéphane Tran Ngoc, a solidarity concert...

Do not forget : the "Folle Journée 2010" in Nantes

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The "Folle Journée" will take place, this year (always in Nantes and in the region), from 27th to 31st January. There will be a geat number of concerts and recitals by a great numbers...

Hibiki Tamura plays Chopin and Liszt

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The pianist Hibiki Tamura, laureate of the Idemitsu Music Award 2006, First great prize Marguerite Long 2007, will play at the "Maison de la culture du Japon", in Paris, on...

Saténik Khourdoian as a star !

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

The young violinist Saténik Khourdoian has just published a CD called Exotismes. It is supported by the Meyer Foundation (collection "Jeunes solistes"). Programme : works by Phlippe...

Violon contest 2010 : Registration

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The registration form and the rules are on-line.

About Svetlin Roussev

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The violinist Svetlin Roussev will play during the following concerts : - Wednesday 2 December 2009, 8.30 pmSalle André Marshall, 56, bd des Invalides, Paris 7eProgramme : recital with Elena...

56 CDs : Aldo Ciccolini's complete recordings !

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The label EMI ha just published a box with 56 CDs which will contain the complete recordings of the pianist Aldo Ciccolini (from 1950 to now). There will be many recordings which are inedited on...

They play Spanish music !

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Albeniz died one century ago (1860-1909) : it is the opportunity for Radio France to celebrate Spanish music. So, on 28 and 29 November, we will be able to hear seven recitals and concerts of...

Contest 2009 : the album

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Come back to the Contest 2009 with Jérôme Panconi's pictures.

to see the photographs

Programme of the gala concert of October 24th at 7.30 pm

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

This gala concert will be dedicated to Gaby Pasquier, Marguerite Long's friend and general secretary of the Long-Thibaud Contest. Programme : Mikhaïl Ivanovitch Glinka (1804-1857)...

Programme of the rehearsal of October 24th at 11 am

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Serge Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) : Concerto for piano and orchestra No 4Guillaume Vincent, piano Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) : Concerto for left handMaria Masycheva, piano (pause) ...

CONTEST 2009 : PALMARES

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The 1st Great Prize Marguerite Long – Académie des Beaux-Arts is not attributed. Maria MASYCHEVA, 26 (Russia) : - 2nd Great Prize – Ville de Paris - Prize SAS the Prince...

CONTEST 2009 : ABOUT THE FINAL TEST WITH ORCHESTRA

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The final test "Concerto" will take place on Thursday, October 22nd, Salle Olivier Messiaen in Radio France, at 2 pm and 6.30 pm (information : 33 1 56 40 15 16). The 5...

CONTEST 2009 : THE 5 FINALISTS

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

At the end of the semi-final test, here are the five finalists candidates chosen by the jury presided by Aldo Ciccolini : - No 1 : Yunjie CHEN, 28 (China), who...

CONTEST 2009 : RESULTS OF THE ELIMINATORY TEST

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

At the end of the eliminary test (completely anonymous : the jury was behind a screen and the candidates were designed by a number), the jury chose 12 candidates for the semi-final test : ...

Listen to the candidates playing !

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

To hear the candidates of the Contest 2009 playing, please click on the following link :

hear extracts of the contest

Emilie Brégeon will sing the song during the contest

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The young French soprano Emilie Brégeon will sing the song (by Debussy, Ravel, Wolf or Liszt) during the semi-final test with the candidates. She began to sing in the Maîtrise de Radio...

Contest 2009 : the 20 candidates

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Yesterday, Tuesday October 13th, there were 20 candidates present at the drawing lots : - Mr. Ryoji Ariyoshi, 30, Japan- Mr. Eric Artz, 26, France- Miss Suzana Bartal, 23,...

Jean-Philippe Schweitzer on the radio

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Jean-Philippe Schweitzer, president of the Long-Thibaud Foundation, will be invited by Lionel Esparza's Magazine, on Tuesday October 13th at 6 pm on France Musique. He will speak on Monday 19th at 2...

Contest 2009 : the schedule is changing

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Five and not six great prizes will be awarded this year by the Long-Thibaud Contest. Consequently, the semi-final test will take place, on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October, from 2.30 to 7 pm...

Roussev plays Medtner and Grieg

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The violinist Svetlin Roussev and the pianist Frédéric d'Oria-Nicolas have just recorded Grieg and Medtner's Violin and Piano Sonatas (1 CD Fondamenta). They will play together on October 7 at...

Maguerite and Jacques on France Musique

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud will be, from Monday 5 to Friday 9 October, the heroes of Olivier Bernager's programme Grandes Figures broadcasted on France Musique from 2.30 pm to 4 pm. ...

Philippe Hersant's Onze Caprices

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Ji-Yoon Park and Julien Szulman will play Philippe Hersant's Onze Caprices pour deux violons on Friday 16 October at 8 pm in the Cercle national des armées in Paris (information : 33 1 44 90...

2009 : Philippe Leroux composes AMA, commissioned by the contest

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Every year, the Long-Thibaud contest commissions a new work to a composer. In 2009, the French composer Philippe Leroux wrote AMA.

Ilia Rachkovski crowned in Bucuresti

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The pianist Ilia Rachkovski, great prize Jacques Thibaud 2001, received the special prize for the interpretation of a sonata by George Enescu during the Enesco Contest which took place in September...

Next contest soon ! (1)

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The next piano contest will take place from 15 to 24 October 2009. 26 candidates were selected. The 9 members of the jury (Aldo Ciccolini, president), are : Michel Beroff (France), Eric...

Next contest soon ! (2) : schedule

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Schedule of the piano contest 2009 : - 25 September, 11 am : Press meeting (Paris City Hall) ; - 15 and 16 October, 10.30 am and 2.30 pm :...

A concert by the Friends of the contest on October 16

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0200

A concert organized by the "Association des amis du Concours Long-Thibaud" will take place during the next contest, on Friday October 16th at 8 pm, at the Cercle national des armées, 8,...

55 CDs : Aldo Ciccolini's complete recordings !

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The label EMI will publish, next October, a box with 55 CDs which will contain the complete recordings of the pianist Aldo Ciccolini (from 1950 to now). There will be many recordings which are...

Beethoven by Per Tenstrand

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Per Tengstrand prepares Beethoven's complete sonatas. He will play them in Paris (April 2010), at the Hôtel des Invalides, at the Swedish Cultural Centre and in other places. Seven concerts are...

Gala concert in Shanghaï

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The gala concert of the Long-Thibaud Contest took place on June 26 at the Concert Hall in Shanghaï. The Korean violinist Hyun-Su Shin, first great prize 2008, played sonatas by Tartini and Grieg...

Contest 2009 : results of the preselection

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The next piano contest will take place in 2009, Mr Aldo Ciccolini presiding. In the selection committee were : Christie Julien, pianist, Corinne Kloska, pianist and Paul Blacher, assistant...

Florent Schmitt by Jean-Claude Pennetier

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Jean-Claude Pennetier and Christian Ivaldi have just published Florent Schmitt's complete four hands piano music (1 CD Timpani).

Svetlin Roussev plays Bernstein

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The violinist Svetlin Roussev, leader of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, will play Berstein's Serenade for solo violin, strings, harp and percussion on 5th June, at the Salle...

Christophe Boulier's new CD

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The French violinist Christophe Boulier (Great Prize Long-Thibaud 1984) has just published a new CD within the framework of the 150th birthday of the France-Japan relationship. It has been...

News of Jean-Claude Pennetier

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The first CD of Fauré's complete solo piano music recording by Jean-Claude Pennetier has just been published by Mirare. Programme : the four Valses-Caprices and the nine Préludes op. 103. ...

Ciccolini in La Chaise-Dieu

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Cyril Huvé, artistic director of the "Académie de musique de La Chaise-Dieu" (Auvergne, France), invited Aldo Ciccolini to give masterclasses from 21 to 24 May 2009. (Information :...

News from Khourdoian, Chamayou, Tiberghien

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Satenik Khourdoian has just been crowned "Révélation classique de l'Adami 2009 ; she will play on July 18 at the "Festival des grands crus de Bourgogne". Bertrand Chamayou will...

1959-2009 : Happy birthday, Fuji !

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200

1959-2009 : the history of Fuji Television • 1957 : establishes Fuji Television Network, Inc. • 1959 : commenced broadcasts. • 1982 : first time to achieve the top spot in...

Deadline : 1st of May !

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Attention, if you want to join the next piano contest, the deadline is : 1st of May !

Rosanova - Roussev : a new CD

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Coming soon ! Ysaÿe, Franck and Saint-Saëns will be at the programme of Elena Rozanova and Svetlin Roussev's new CD.

Véra Tsybakov's new CD

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Véra Tsybakov's new CD has just been published (Intrada). It countains works by Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Gershwin. A concert will be organized on 8 April, salle Gaveau, to promote this...

Montpellier : Ciccolini and others

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200

Aldo Ciccolini will give masterclasses during the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, from 28 to 31 July (informations : 33 1 56 40 44 46). He will also give a recital...

The members of the jury 2009

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Here are the members of the jury of the piano contest 2009 : French members : - Aldo Ciccolini, president of the jury - Michel Beroff - Jean-Claude...

Laurent Korcia's new CD

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Laurent Korcia's new CD, untitled "Cinéma", will be published on March 16 (1 CD EMI 5099926578224). Programme : 20 standards of the movie music. A miniwebsite was created for the...

An interview with Antoine de Grolée

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The French pianist Antoine de Grolée will play on March 25th at Radio France (concerts cycle "Déclic"). For this event, he gave an interview to Fantastique, the newsmagazine of...

The Long-Thibaud laureates invited by the Bru Zane Foundation

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

A new foundation, devoted to the French romantic music, was born : the Bru Zane Foundation, based in the palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice. Its vocation : to publish scores, to organize symposiums...

In memoriam Yehudi Menuhin

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Ten years ago Yehudi Menuhin died. He was until the end of his life the president of the violin juries of the Long-Thibaud Contest. EMI publishes three important boxes with historic...

Gala concert in Tokyo

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

A gala concert at Suntory Hall of Tokyo (Japan) was given to promote the Long-Thibaud contest (on 5 february 2009).Here was the programme : Bartok's Violin Concerto No 2with...

Concert at the Embassy of France of Tokyo

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Musical moment at the Embassy of France of Tokyo, on February 5th, 2009 : - Johann Sébastian Bach's Sonata for violin only in C major BVW 1005 (Fugue and Largo)with Haruka Nagao, 4th Prize...

Inscription form : be careful !

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Be careful ! We recently made some modifications (Eliminatory test and Semi-finale).

Bertrand Chamayou on France Musique

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The pianist Bertrand Chamayou (who will play on Thursday 12 February at the Châtelet Theatre with the Orchestre national de France) will be invited by Lionel Esparza in the...

In memoriam Anna Stella Schic

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The pianist Anna Stella Schic, who became Marguerite Long'student in 1947, has just died. She had premiered several scores by Heitor Villa Lobos (Concerto No 2 and Momo precoce) and...

Neuburger on France Musique

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger will be invited on Monday January 26th at 8.05 pm on France Musique.

About CDs

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Ten years after Yehudi Menuhin's death, Emi proposes a new edition of his recordings : in a box of 50 CDs, his complete recordings (50 CD 264 131 2), in 10 CDs the great violin concertos (10 CD 264...

Véra Tsybakov : records, concerts

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

After a CD devoted to Chopin and 2 CDs-books devoted to Martinu and Harsanyi, Véra Tsybakov continues to work for the label Intrada. She has just recorded a new program which will be published in...

Cédric Tiberghien and the Monde de la musique

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Cédric Tiberghien, first great prize Marguerite Long 1998, is on the cover of the French magazine Le Monde de la musique (December 2008), with nine other pianists, under the title :...

Charles Cros likes Bertrand Chamayou

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The pianist Bertrand Chamayou was crowned by the French "Académie Charles Cros" (an academy devoted to the recording) with the title of "instrumental soloist of the year" for his...

About Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger's last CD, "Live at Suntory Hall" (2 CD Mirare MIR 060) received a "Choc" from the French magazine Le Monde de la musique (issue of November 2008)....

The Prize of the audience-Banque transatlantique

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Saténik Khourdoïan won the Prize of the audience (prix du public-Banque transatlantique) 2008.

Photographs of the Contest 2008 (2)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Let's live again the Contest 2008 with other pictures by Jérôme Panconi :

photographs of the gala concert at the Châtelet

Prize of the audience : to night !

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Prize of the audience 2008 (audience of the Salle Olivier Messiaen and internet audience) will be revealed to night at 7.30 pm at the Châtelet Theatre.

Photographs of the Contest 2008 (1)

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Let's live again the great hours of the Contest 2008 with the photograph Jérôme Panconi :

The final test "concerto".

The palmares.

PALMARES 2008

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

GREAT PRIZES First Great International Prize Jacques Thibaud-Académie des beaux-arts :30 500 euros Hyun-Su Shin, 21 years (South Korea) Second Great Prize - Ville de Paris : 15 200...

Gala concert 2008 : the programme

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Programme of the concert of Monday November 17th, 7.30 pm (Théâtre du Châtelet) : FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) : Sonata for violin and piano in A minor, op. 137n° 2, D 385BERNARD CAVANNA (b....

Saturday, November 15th : final test "concerto"

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The final test "concerto" of the Long-Thibaud Contest 2008 will take place on Saturday November 15th, Salle Olivier Messiaen (Radio France), with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio...

The contest on France Musique

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

President Jean-Philippe Schweitzer, Salvatore Accardo and Laurent Korcia will be invited by Lionel Esparza in his broadcast programme Le Magazine on France Musique, to night, 13 November, from 6 to...

Contest 2008 : let's vote !

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

This year, the Prize of the andience of the Long-Thibaud will be given by the audience of the Salle Olivier Messiaen and by the internauts. On Saturday November 15th (from midnight), you will...

Contest 2008 : the 4 finalists

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

4 violinists will take part at the final tests of the Long-Thibaud Contest 2008 : - Saténik KOURDHOÏAN, 25 years old (France) will play Sibelius'Concerto ;- Noah BENDIX-BALGLEY, 24 years...

Tristan Pfaff crowned

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The French pianist Tristan Pfaff, prize Marguerite Long 2007, has just won the second prize of the Ferrol Contest in Spain (the first prize was not awarded !).

photo Jérôme Panconi

Contest 2008 : result of the eliminatory test

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The eliminatory tests took place from 7 to 9 November in a complete anonymity for the second year (jury behind a screen ant attribution of numbers to the candidates). 12 young violonists are...

Two interviews with Julien Szulman

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The young violinist Julien Szulman recently gave two interviews : the first one in ResMusica.com, the second one in Fantastique, the wabmagazine of Radio France. To read the interview in...

Aldo Ciccolini on France Musique

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The pianist Aldo Ciccolini will be invited by Dominique Boutel every day from Monday 20th to Friday 24th, from 7.50 to 8 am, on France Musique.

to see France Musique's website

Contest 2008 : the members of the jury

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The members of the 2008 contest (this year : violin) are :- Salvatore Accardo (Italy), president of the jury ;- French members : Ivry Gitlis (replaced by Suzanne Gessner), Amy Flamer, Laurent...

An interview with Antoine de Grolée

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The young French pianist Antoine de Grolée will open, on Wednesday 17 September, the concerts cycle "Génération Jeunes Interprètes", at 6 pm in the studio Sacha Guitry of Radio...

About Mikhail Rudy's autobiography

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Rudy by Rudy ? the autobiography of a running away pianist.

• Mikhaïl Rudy, Le Roman d'un pianiste, éditions du Rocher, 2008, 209 p., 19,90 euros.

Naïve celebrates Laurent Korcia

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

To celebrate its ten years, the Franch label Naïve proposes a new edition of important recordings. Among them : a CD by Laurent Korcia : (Dances, Double Jeux) (2004) with a CD bonus.

Mikhaïl Rudy everywhere

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Next September and October will be great months for the pianist Mikhaïl Rudy : recital on September 12th at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and concert on October 26th at the Salle Pleyel ;...

Contest 2008 : results of the preselection

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The preselection committee had listen to more than 80 candidates from 21 countries. 34 violinists are selected : the youngest is 18 years old, the oldest 30 ; average age : 23 years and a half....