harmonia nova #5 Bruno Philippe and Tanguy de Williencourt

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
• 1 Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" (Arr. Carl Czerny): I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto 14:01
• 2 Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" (Arr. Carl Czerny): II. Andante con variazioni 15:58
• 3 Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" (Arr. Carl Czerny): III. Finale - Presto 08:51
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828):
• 4 Nacht und Träume, D. 827 03:40
• 5 Der Jüngling und der Tod, D. 545 03:38
• 6 Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821: I. Allegro moderato 12:03
• 7 Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821: II. Adagio 04:01
• 8 Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821: III. Allegretto 09:23
• 9 Ständchen, D.889 03:41
• Total Runtime 01:15:16

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Bruno Philippe has studied with David Geringas, Steven Isserliss, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since October 2014, he has been studying as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. He has won many competitions and in 2017, he is laureate of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.

During the next few months, Bruno Philippe can be seen in concertos, above all with the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt and Orchesterakademy of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.

His first album, devoted to Brahms’s Sonatas, recorded with the pianist Tanguy de Williencourt for the Evidence Classic label, came out in 2015. Now in 2017 he joins the label Harmonia Mundi and releases this new album around Beethoven and Schubert’s sonatas, with Tanguy de Williencourt. Tanguy de Williencourt studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Roger Muraro, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Claire Désert, and obtained a Masters in piano and accompaniment with distinction. He is now on the Artist Diploma Programme. Studying lieder and mélodies with Jeff Cohen and Anne le Bozec, and orchestral conducting with Nicolas Brochot and George Pehlivanian, he won the 2008 Yamaha Competition, was runner-up in the 2013 Fauré Competition, and he received bursaries from the Or du Rhin, Blüthner and Meyer Foundations. He has recorded for both Evidence classics and Mirare.

Bruno Philippe, cello Tononi
Tanguy de Williencourt, Steinway piano

Bruno Philippe
was born in 1993 in Perpignan. There, he began studying the cello with Marie-Madeleine Mille and regularly attended Yvan Chiffoleau’s masterclasses. In 2008, he pursued his studies at the CRR in Paris in the class of Raphael Pidoux. In 2009 he was unanimously accepted by the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance in the class of Jerome Pernoo and joined Claire Desert’s chamber music class. Subsequently, he participated in the masterclasses of David Geringas, Steven Isserliss, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

He has, since October 2014, been studying as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson.

In November 2011, he won the third Grand Prix and the Best recital at the André Navarra International Competition. In September 2014, he won the third prize and audience prize at the International Competition of the ARD in Munich.

Bruno Philippe is regularly invited to perform at the Kammersaal of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cité de la Musique, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse and to play with the Bayerische Rundfunk, the Munich Kammerorchestrer, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, under the direction of conductors such as Bruno Mantovani and Michel Tabachnik. In 2013, he was notably invited to the Kursaal Besançon to play the Elgar concerto.

Bruno Philippe also performs at the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, the Festival of Hix, the Folle Journée de Nantes, the Vacances de Monsieur Haydn in La Roche-Posay, Musique à Deauville, the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, the Roque in Anthéron, the Amsterdam Cello Biennale … He has the opportunity to play with renowned musicians: Gary Hoffman, Renaud Capuçon, Jerome Ducros, Tamestit, Sarah Nemtanu Lise Berthaud, Christophe Coin, Jerome Pernoo, Raphael Pidoux, Emmanuelle Bertrand, as well as French Cellos or Dissonances (David Grimal). In 2009, he recorded the duet opus 54 No. 1 by Offenbach with Raphael Pidoux for Integral Classic.

He has already been invited to the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland and the Festival de Pâques of Aix-en-Provence in 2015.

Bruno Philippe was awarded scholarships from the Safran Foundation for music, the Raynaud-Zurfluh Foundation, the Foundation Rheingold, the AMOPA, the Banque Populaire Foundation, and in August 2014 won the Nicolas Firmenich price at the Verbier Festival. He also received the support of the « Christa Verhein-Stiftung » for his studies at the Kronberg Academy. Since March 2012, he plays with a Fanck Ravatin cello on loan from Mécénat Musical Société Générale.

Tanguy de Williencourt
studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Roger Muraro, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Claire Désert, and obtained a Masters in piano and accompaniment with distinction. He is now on the Artist Diploma Programme.

Studying lieder and mélodies with Jeff Cohen and Anne le Bozec, and orchestral conducting with Nicolas Brochot and George Pehlivanian, he won the 2008 Yamaha Competition, was runner-up in the 2013 Fauré Competition, and he received bursaries from the Or du Rhin, Blüthner and Meyer Foundations.

Tanguy de Williencourt has attended many masterclasses with Jacques Rouvier, Anne Queffélec, Christian Ivaldi, Christoph Eschenbach and the Wanderer Trio, and continues to work with Paul Badura-Skoda and Eric Heidsieck.

He has been invited to perform at a number of festivals – Chopin à Bagatelle, Piano à Lyon, La Folle Journée de Nantes, La Roque d’Anthéron – and in such prestigious venues as the Cité de la Musique de Paris, the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, the Alti Hall in Kyoto and the Berlin Philharmonie’s Kammersaal.

He had the opportunity to perform with distinguished musicians such as Olivier Charlier, Patrice Fontanarosa, Jérôme Pernoo, and with the Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ensemble Matheus.

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