Luc Beausejour

Luc Beauséjour – Famous Sonatas and a Fantasia for Fortepiano (2022)
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“[Mozart’s] immense ability to dream in sound-structures served [his] secret coveting of love and affection.”
– Norbert Elias (from Mozart, Portrait of a Genius, 1991)

Like many musicians of his time, Mozart played several different instruments, including violin, viola, organ, and, of course, harpsichord. But his favourite was the new fortepiano, invented in Italy in the early 18th century and signi cantly improved in the 1770s. He encountered the instruments of Johann Andreas Stein in Augsburg in 1777, shortly before his second trip to Paris, and after arriving in Vienna, he developed a special fondness for those of Anton Walter, acquiring one in 1784. These instruments were perfectly suited to the style cultivated by Mozart and his contemporaries, so vastly different from the polyphonic constructions of earlier generations. At the keyboard – whether performing his sonatas, concertos, or the improvisations described in numerous accounts – he always favoured “taste,” “precision,” and “emotion.”

Luc Beauséjour lovingly performs these works on Famous Sonatas and a Fantasia for Fortepiano!
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Luc Beauséjour – New Baroque Sessions (2021)
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Pianist Luc Beauséjour presents the New Baroque Sessions, collecting works from baroque composers Johann Jakob Froberger, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, François Couperin, Armand-Louis Couperin, and Claude Balbastre!

“When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived at our doorsteps in the spring of 2020 and all my con- certs were cancelled, I began to think about a second program of Baroque music on the piano. With encouragement from François Mario Labbé and Julie Fournier, Analekta’s president and general manager respectively, I selected repertoire that I enjoy and that I feel sounds very good on the piano.”
– Luc Beauséjour

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Luc Beauséjour – Bach: Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-527 for Harpsichord, Marimba & Cello (2021)
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“Several years ago, I was asked to take part in an event entitled ‘Delirium Vivaldi,’ the closing con- cert of the eighth annual Classical Spree festival, put on by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conducted by Kent Nagano, the concert featured well-known works by the “Red Priest,” with the idea being to perform arrangements on unusual instruments such as octobass, cimbalom, bagpipes, and marimba.

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