PROGRAMME:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D minor, K 32
Stéphane Delplace
Septem Perpetuum in D minor
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in G major, K 14
Lucas Debargue
Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in E major, K 531
Stéphane Delplace
Klavierstück No. 6 in E minor
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in B minor, K 27
Lucas Debargue
Toccata in B minor
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in E-flat major, K 253
Stéphane Delplace
Prelude and Fugue No. 27 in E-flat major
Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in C minor, K 115
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
Performed by Lucas Debargue (piano), the prize-winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition (2015)
The programme of Lucas Debargue's recital consists of music by friends – even though these friends may be separated by centuries. The programme focusses on one-movement sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. A contemporary of Bach and Handel as well as a friend of Farinelli, Scarlatti composed more than five hundred sonatas; his inventions to a great extent defined the future development of keyboard music. The Russian piano school is inconceivable without Scarlatti's sonatas – as is Debargue's pianism. Ever since the time that the ten-year-old pianist laid his hands on the eleven volumes of Scarlatti's sonatas, Lucas Debargue has thought of Scarlatti as a friend and an interlocutor. In October 2019 Debargue recorded fifty-two of Scarlatti's sonatas on the Sony Classical label – four CDs. This recording was awarded the prestigious Choc de l’année prize by Classica magazine in 2019 and was nominated for the Opus Klassik award in 2020. Debargue perceives the music of Scarlatti's sonatas as a kind of enigmatic code which must be read, deciphered and brought to life rather than as a musical-cultural exhibit frozen in time merely to be displayed. He regularly performs Scarlatti at his recitals, rendering him not an "encore composer" but the true hero of the evening. This programme, performed to great acclaim last month at the festivals La Roque D'Anthéron and La Grange de Meslay, is structured as a dialogue between Scarlatti and musicians of the present day – Debargue himself and his friend Stéphane Delplace, also a composer and pianist. This 18th to 21st century dialogue also includes Bach, the grand master of the baroque: Debargue will open the recital with his Italian Concerto and conclude it with the Toccata in C minor.
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