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François-Frédéric Guy will be guesting at the Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo on 30 November and 1 & 7 December with the complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas. After his three recitals on 23 and 24 November, he will interpret the remaining 32 works there in five concerts.
With his celebrated sonata cycle, the pianist has appeared in Washington, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Carlo, Norwich, Metz and Buenos Aires.
Dates see left
Musashino Shimin Bunka Kaikan, Recital Hall
François-Frédéric Guy, expert in romantic German repertoire and especially Beethoven's works, describes his experience as an orchestra leader from the piano as an "thrilling tightrope act". Since 2012, he has dedicated himself to this particular challenge, now taking it even further with the two piano concertos by Johannes Brahms. In an interview, the pianist described the peculiarities of his double role and his path to conducting....
He plays Bartók, Brahms and Prokofiev in the world’s great concert halls, works closely with contemporary composers such as Bruno Mantovani and Marc Monnet, his recording of Liszt’s Harmonies poetiques et religieuses has received glowing reviews – however the key element of pianist François-Frédéric Guy’s musical world is Ludwig van Beethoven. He describes in poetic language his special relationship to the composer’s works: “You plunge into them as if on a deep-sea expedition and discover a secret world, which seems familiar and mysterious at the same time.”...