Harpsichordist Céline Frisch is fond of the Abbesses' heart-warming intimacy. She will appear there on her own for the third time, without her usual accomplices Café Zimmerman, to browse, along with the audience, through Jean-Philippe Rameau's works for the harpsichord. An emblematic figure of the French baroque repertoire, Rameau doubtlessly shares with his elder, François Couperin, the status of father of the French keyboard school. He delineated its forms (suite and order), refined its style and developed a brilliant virtuosity, associated, however, with extreme elegance. This style became his unmistakable hallmark. Céline Frish goes right to the very heart of Rameau's music, without mannerism or vanity. She will reveal to those willing to receive her tactful and contrasted interpretation the delicate emotions induced by the instrument which French 18th century composers have extolled incomparably.
Jérémie Szpirglas
RAMEAU Suite in A from the First Book (1706); Extracts from the Suite in E from the Harpsichord Pieces (1724/1731); Suite in G from the New Harpsichord Pieces (1728)
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