Cage² Bertrand Chamayou

• John Cage (1912 - 1992): Mysterious Adventure:
• 1 Cage: Mysterious Adventure 07:44
• The Unavailable Memory Of:
• 2 Cage: The Unavailable Memory Of 02:39
• Primitive:
• 3 Cage: Primitive 02:48
• In the Name of the Holocaust:
• 4 Cage: In the Name of the Holocaust: Pt. 1 05:50
• 5 Cage: In the Name of the Holocaust: Pt. 2 02:24
• The Perilous Night:
• 6 Cage: The Perilous Night: I. 02:28
• 7 Cage: The Perilous Night: II. 00:44
• 8 Cage: The Perilous Night: III. 04:13
• 9 Cage: The Perilous Night: IV. 01:00
• 10 Cage: The Perilous Night: V. 00:43
• 11 Cage: The Perilous Night: VI. 03:14
• Root of an Unfocus:
• 12 Cage: Root of an Unfocus 04:33
• Daughters of the Lonesome Isle:
• 13 Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle 08:55
• A Valentine out of Season:
• 14 Cage: A Valentine out of Season: Movement I 02:00
• 15 Cage: A Valentine out of Season: Movement II 00:50
• 16 Cage: A Valentine out of Season: Movement III 00:58
• Tossed as It Is Untroubled:
• 17 Cage: Tossed as It Is Untroubled 03:13
• Bacchanale:
• 18 Cage: Bacchanale 06:56
• Our Spring Will Come:
• 19 Cage: Our Spring Will Come 04:09
• And the Earth Shall Bear Again:
• 20 Cage: And the Earth Shall Bear Again 02:36
• Total Runtime 01:07:57

Info for Cage²

Cage² is the title of Bertrand Chamayou's new album - he calls it the twin brother of his most recent Letter(s) to Erik Satie - both recorded at the Miraval studios. CAGE² is also the title of a performance Bertrand Chamayou conceived with dancer and choreographer Élodie Sicard, featuring 12 pieces composed by John Cage for prepared piano, in the period between 1940 and 1945. John Cage wrote all the pieces of this album for dance solos: for the American dancer Syvilla Fort, for dancers and choreographers such as Valérie Bettis, Wilson Williams, Pearl Primus, Jean Erdman, but also for the terrific Merce Cunningham. Bertrand has also delivered brilliant booklet notes on Cage, the genesis of the prepared piano and the pieces themselves.

Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Bertrand Chamayou
has established himself as a personality of the highest level on the international music scene, performing in venues like the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, New York’s Lincoln Center, the Herkulessaal, Musikfest Bremen, Wigmore Hall, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Festival, Rotterdam Gergiev Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and orchestras like the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammer Philharmonie, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, the WDR Sinfonie Orchester, the SWR Sinfonie Orchester, the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. Bertrand has worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Neville Marriner, Semyon Bychkov, Michel Plasson, Louis Langrée, Fabien Gabel, Joshua Weilerstein, Jérémie Rhorer, Stéphane Denève, Ludovic Morlot, Andris Nelson.

In the 2013/14 season, Bertrand will debut with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester at Berlin’s Philharmonie with Stéphane Denève the NDR Sinfonie Orchester in Hamburg with Semyon Bychkov and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, ; he will return with the Hessischer Rundfunk Orchester in Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, will tour with Ludovic Morlot and his Orchestre de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, will return for an evening recital at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and be given a residency with the Orchetsre National de Bordeaux in their brand new auditorium including several orchestral performances, recitals and a tour. He will also tour in the United-States and play a recital at New York’s Lincoln Center.

Bertrand Chamayou released a very successful César Franck CD in March 2010, which was awarded several prizes including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice. In 2008 his Mendelssohn CD had also been a wide success. He had released in 2006 a very successful Liszt live CD (Transcendental Etudes) for Sony Classical. In 2011, he celebrated Liszt’ 200th anniversary recording the complete Years of Pilgrimage for Naive which he also performed in several venues throughout the world. The album received raving reviews worldwide and got several prizes including Gramophone ‘s Choice. He played the same year with Pierre Boulez and the Orchestre de Paris at Salle Pleyel,. In February 2011, he won a Victoire de la Musique as “Soloist of the Year”.

At 20, Bertrand was a prize-winner at the international Long- Thibaud competition . Born in 1981, Bertrand was very soon remarked by pianist Jean-François Heisser who was later to become his professor at Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. Bertrand Chamayou completed his training then with Maria Curcio in London and was given precious advice by such great masters as Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Murray Perahia.

Betrrand has been a regular chamber music player with partners including Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit, Baiba Skride, Sol Gabetta, Nicolas Baldeyrou. He now regularly performs throughout the world with Sol Gabetta.

This album contains no booklet.