4th to 7th July
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An initiative by the City of Cannes to showcase young artists who have won prizes at the world’s leading classical music competitions.
For its 2nd edition, the Young Talents Festival will bring together 9 artists selected from among the winners of major international competitions (Geneva – Switzerland, Rubinstein – Israel, Pau Casals – Spain, Maestra – France, Van Cliburn – USA, Sibelius – Finland, etc.).
Over the course of the Festival’s four concerts, in the exceptional setting of the Place de la Castre overlooking Cannes and its splendid bay, our young talents will perform a wide variety of composers, from J.S. Bach to Messiaen, from Chopin to Prokofiev, from Beethoven to Rachmaninov, illustrating the history of music in all its glory.
After three solo concerts on 4, 5 and 6 July, this second edition will close with the Orchestre national de Cannes on 7 July 2023.
They are, or will soon be, winners of international competitions, forming ensembles with their peers or by chance of artistic encounters, running through auditions, experiencing the first draughts of quivering auditoriums, spreading their talent under the most varied skies.
Young, very young, they have chosen Music, or Music has chosen them; they have chosen an instrument – the piano, the violin or the cello. To the gifts that nature gave them, they added tireless work, perseverance and the sacrifice of everything that seemed less essential. They have harnessed these exceptional qualities to offer us unique moments of immense generosity, when their fingers bring to life the sublime scores of the great musical geniuses, from Bach to Berio.
They are our young talents.
4th July
In collaboration with the Festival international de Piano d’Orléans – Brin d’herbe
Concert ends around 10.30pm
Max GRIMM, piano
Gérard PESSON
Dans la prose du monde – III. Folds of an endless dream sentence
Johannes BRAHMS
Sonata for piano n°3
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Rose POTIER, piano
Gérard PESSON
In the prose of the world – Everything is plural
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
Sonata for piano n°7 in C major K 309- 1st movement, Allegro con spirito
Johann Sebastian BACH
Sinfonia No 15 in B minor
Henri DUTILLEUX
Au gré des ondes – V. Hommage à Bach
Johann Sebastian BACH
Inventio No 15 in B minor
Luciano BERIO
Six encores for piano: Brin
Rose POTIER
…of grass
Frédéric CHOPIN
Nocturne opus 72 n°1 in E minor
Serge PROKOFIEV
Fugitive Visions op.22 – V. Molto giocoso and X. Ridicolosamente
Olivier MESSIAEN
Eight preludes – 1. La Colombe
5th July
LUKA COETZEE, cello
NICOLAS ABSALOM, pianist
Robert SCHUMANN- Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 (9′)
Fanny HENSEL MENDELSSOHN – Sonata o Fantasia for piano and cello in G minor, H. 238 (7′)
Johannes BRAHMS – Sonata for piano and cello No.1 in E minor, Op.38 (25′)
NATHAN MELTZER, violin
Johann Sebastian BACH – Violin sonata in A minor (24′)
Eugène YSAŸE – Sonata for solo violin in A minor No.2, op.27 (12′)
6th July
Geister duo, piano four hands
DAVID SALMON and MANUELl VIEILLARD
Igor STRAVINSKY – Petrouchka, burlesque scenes in four tableaux (transcription by the composer for piano four hands)
KEVIN CHEN, piano
Frédéric CHOPIN – Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 (11′)
Scherzo No. 4 in E minor, Op. 54 (11′)
Sergueï RACHMANINOV – Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, op. 36 (21′)
7th July
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE CANNES,
USTINA DUBITSKY, conductor
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN- The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43 – overture (5′)
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LUKA COETZEE, cello
Dmitri CHOSTAKOVICH – Concerto for cello and orchestra No.1 in E flat major, op.107 (29′)
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NATHAN MELTZER, violin
Jean SIBELIUS – Six humoresques for violin and orchestra, op. 87 and op. 89 (20′)
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KEVIN CHEN, piano
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN – Concerto for piano and orchestra No.4 in G major, op.58 (3
