Beethoven Piano concertos nos. 2 & 3

Beethoven - Piano concertos Nos. 2 & 3

François-Frederic Guy PIANO
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Philippe Jordan

Since his debut with the Orchestre of Paris under the direction of Wolfgang Sawallisch, by way of a live recording of Brahms’s Piano Concerto no.2 with Paavo Berglund and the London Philharmonic, François-Frédéric Guy has succeeded, without undue haste or impatience, in asserting a strong musical personality.
As his passion for opera and orchestral music goes hand-in-hand with a certain taste for taking risks, he chooses from the ocean of the piano repertoire works that are among the most complex, notably Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata which he has played around sixty times in public and recorded twice. He is very close to such composers of today as Ivan Fedele, Marc Monnet, and Hugues Dufourt, whose entire output of piano music he performs and who has dedicated a work to him.
He has recorded the complete sonatas for cello and piano of Beethoven and Brahms with Anne Gastinel. He can be heard in recital in international concert series in London, Washington, Tokyo, Rio, Cologne, and Berlin. He also plays at prestigious festivals like La Roque d’Anthéron, the Varsovia Summer Festival, the Lucerne Festival (under the direction of Bernard Haitink), the Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, and the Musica Festival in Strasbourg. He made his debut at the BBC Proms in London with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia in August 2006.
Over the next few seasons, François-Frédéric Guy will perform the complete cycle of thirtytwo sonatas and the five piano concertos of Beethoven with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the direction of Philippe Jordan, with whom he appears regularly, notably at the Salle Pleyel in Paris and the Royal Festival Hall in London.

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