Brahms: Pièces pour piano Adam Laloum

• 1 Variations sur un thème original en Ré Majeur Op. 21 No.1 18:00
• 2 Capriccio en Fa Dièse Mineur - Un poco agitato 03:47
• 3 Capriccio en Si Mineur - Allegretto ma non troppo 03:23
• 4 Intermezzo en La Bémol Majeur - Grazioso 02:29
• 5 Intermezzo en Si Bémol Majeur - Allegretto gracioso 02:16
• 6 Capriccio en Ut Dièse Mineur - Agitato, ma non troppo presto 03:25
• 7 Intermezzo en La Majeur - Andante con moto 04:10
• 8 Intermezzo en La Mineur - Moderato semplice 03:26
• 9 Capriccio en Ut Majeur - Grazioso ed un poco vivace 03:39
• 10 Rhapsodie en Si Mineur no.1 - Agitato 10:08
• 11 Rhapsodie en Sol Mineur No. 2 - Molto passionato, ma non troppo allegro 07:05
• 12 Intermezzo en Mi Bémol Majeur - Andante moderato 05:53
• 13 Intermezzo en Si Bémol Mineur - Andante non troppo e con molta espressione 05:03
• 14 Intermezzo en Ut dièse Mineur - Andante con moto 06:59
• Total Runtime 01:19:43

Info for Brahms: Pièces pour piano

From the age of 20 onwards, Brahms wrote unceasingly for the piano. His solo pieces for the instrument, ranging from the poetic evocations of the variations Op.21 to the nostalgic yearning of Op.117, may be seen as personal journal.

Adam Laloum was born in Toulouse in 1987. He began studying the piano at the age of ten and has studied with Michel Béroff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pascal Devoyon and Jean-Claude Pennetier. Since October 2009 Adam has been a student at Hamburg’s Hochschule für Musik under Evgeny Koroliov who won the Clara Haskil Prize in 1977.

In September 2009 Adam won the first prize the audience award at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition. One to watch…

Adam Laloum, piano

Adam Laloum
was born in Toulouse in 1987. He began studying the piano at the age of ten. In 1999 he entered the Conservatoire de Toulouse and from 2002 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), class of Michel Béroff. Adam took lessons in chamber performing and attended master classes with Dmitri Bashkirov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pascal Devoyon and Jean-Claude Pennetier. Adam received his diploma in Paris in 2006 and was admitted to the “3rd Perfectionnement” course at the Conservatoire de Lyon, class of in Géry Moutier.

Since October 2009 Adam has been a student at Hamburg’s Hochschule für Musik under Evgeny Korolyov who won the Clara Haskil Prize in 1977. In 2007 Adam appeared in a performing chamber concerts at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron and the Académie Maurice Ravel where he was awarded the Maurice Ravel Prize, which afforded him the opportunity to perform in a chamber music concert series.

Adam has performed at many prestigious festivals and concerts halls as soloist and chamber musician in France (the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the La Grange de Meslay festival, the L’Orangerie de Sceaux festival and L’Epau in Deauville), Switzerland (Théâtre de Vevey and the Salle Métropole in Lausanne) Jordan and Mexico. He has performed with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Sinfonietta de Lausanne under conductors such as Jesüs López-Cobos, Peter Csaba and Jean-Marc Grob.

Adam has received a number of scholarships including a grant from the Fondation de France in 2006, an ADAMI grant in 2006–2007 and a grant from the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire for 2007–2010. In September 2009 he won the first prize the audience award at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition.

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