With his Well-Tempered Clavier, Johann Sebastian Bach created a musical cosmos spanning all keys – Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin countered this universe with a radically different model in the 24 Pr\u00e9ludes which he composed on Majorca: fragments, moments of inspiration, aphorisms. Robert Schumann saw them as “ruins”, Franz Liszt considered them “golden dreams”. Swiss pianist and conductor Jean-Francois Antonioli gives form to these fleeting features on his disc PRELUDES: he explores these pieces not as short introductions, but as dense character pieces – not fragments, but architectural details which give a foretaste of the large-scale. Chopin emphasised how much he had struggled with this work time and again: his compositions give evidence to a cumbersome process of intensification and ever denser structures. Jean-Francois Antonioli also chisels away at the most detailed of nuances: the pianist is known for his obsession with detail which leaves nothing to chance. PRELUDES was recorded at one of the world’s most beautiful concert halls: the exceptional acoustics at the Victoria Hall in Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With his Well-Tempered Clavier, Johann Sebastian Bach created a musical cosmos spanning all keys – Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin countered this universe with a radically different model in the 24 Pr\u00e9ludes which he composed on Majorca: fragments, moments of inspiration, aphorisms. Robert Schumann saw them as “ruins”, Franz Liszt considered them “golden dreams”. Swiss pianist and conductor … Continue reading Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Antonioli:|Preludes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[699,1315],"tags":[715,716],"class_list":["post-9885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-klanglogo","category-music","tag-frederic-chopin","tag-jean-francois-antonioli"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9886,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9885\/revisions\/9886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}