{"title":"Jean-Yves Thibaudet","description":"\u003cp\u003eb. 1961. French pianist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean-Yves Thibaudet is a well-known French concert pianist with a substantial Decca discography, particularly celebrated for Romantic and 20th-century repertoire including Rachmaninov and Ravel. Small product count in sample likely reflects catalog slice only.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"beethoven-sonatas-for-piano-violin-2","title":"BEETHOVEN: COMPLETE VIOLIN SONATAS","description":"BEETHOVAN Sonatas for Piano and Violin - Midori teams up with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet for Beethoven Sonatas. \"Sonatas are really musical conversations between two artists. Melodies are traded back and forth. Timing is critical. There is no room for error in the absence of a large orchestra. Truly they are performances without a net. 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The tragic climaxes hit you right in the gut.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the Second Symphony, Jean-Yves Thibaudet offers a first class account of his solo part. The Masque is especially outstanding–virtuosic but at the same time nicely “cool.” Prior to that, in the opening variation sets, Alsop knits the music together expertly, ensuring that the glum bits never bog down, and that the entire first part builds inexorably to its exciting conclusion. The following Dirge is is a barn-burner, and somehow after all of this the Epilogue never turns hollow. Again, I don’t think that Bernstein could have done better, and as suggested above the engineering is also rock solid and brilliant by turns. 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