Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt

Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt – Live recital “Correspondances” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:36 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Klarthe Records

The presentation of the Fantasie Op. 17 (1835-36) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) alongside the B Minor Sonata (1852-53) by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) is not based on the simple convergence of a romantic approach – which would in any case need to be stated explicitly – or indeed on a performer’s whim. The two works both have in common formal research, technical biases and aesthetical positions, which unite them considerably. A revealing factor ; the Fantasie is dedicated to Liszt and the Sonata in return is dedicated to Schumann.
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Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt – Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev: Ballets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:48 minutes | 958 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta

Against the backdrop of it’s decors, ballet offers itself up as a spectacle, arousing admiration and enchantment. In the early twentieth century, from the Palais Garnier to the Bolshoi, from the Châtelet to the Mariinsky, the shimmering colors of the orchestra were often combined with the innovative choreography of the Ballets Russes. The music to which these ballets were danced, assigned to illustrious composers, could hardly be for piano, which was tolerated only to accompany the dancers in their rehearsal studios. But is that really the case? If so, then why are there so many piano versions made by the composers themselves, alongside the orchestral ones? Jean- Baptiste Fonlupt answers that question here with dazzling imagination and virtuosity.
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