Florent Boffard © Philippe Gontier

A polyphonic spirit floats over the recital by pianist Florent Bouffad. Fascinated by Bach and Schoenberg – whose entire oeuvre has been recorded by Boffard – Florent Boffard launches himself into George Benjamin’s Shadowlines, six canonic preludes that hide combinatorial art under the classicism of surfaces. Marco Stroppa, a composer who entered the Pantheon of the pianist quite young, imagined at the age of 25, an epic trajectory between the piano and electronics, a memorable concerto where the electronics replace the orchestra. “The relationship between the synthetic sounds and the concrete sounds from the piano is sometimes studied in such a way that they are confused in one image and sensation. Inharmonic timbers and harmony, in other words, illusion and reality, often tend to merge and transform each other.” Marco Stroppa

Florent Boffard piano

Jean-Sébastien Bach Invention à 3 voix n°9 BWV 795
Arnold Schoenberg Pièces pour piano opus 23 n°1, 2
Jean-Sébastien Bach (transcription Florent Boffard) Sonate en trio n°4 BWV 528, Andante
Arnold Schoenberg Pièces pour piano opus 23 n° 3
Jean-Sébastien Bach Invention à 3 voix n°14 BWV 800
Arnold Schoenberg Pièces pour piano opus 23 n° 4, 5
George Benjamin Shadowlines
Marco Stroppa Innige cavatina (excerpt Miniture estrose), Traiettoria…deviata

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production. Diaphonique es the Franco-British fund for contemporary music, a joint initiative of the Institut français, the SACEM, the British Council, the Bureau Export de la musique française, the Amis de l’Institut français Trust, and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
Concert recorded by France Musique.