Nour Ayadi

The young prodigy Nour Ayadi displays the full range of her gifts, from the grace of Rameau to the power of Liszt's Dantesque visions, via the virtual poetry of Debussy.

This recital begins with the delicate art of the Baroque harpsichord, as Rameau's Suite in D, part of the Second Book of 1724, contains some of the composer's most beautiful pieces, between effusive melancholy, playful humour and mysterious visions. Debussy, himself the author of an Hommage à Rameau, is represented by the tormented and virtuosic vertigo of his Masques from 1904, offering the 'black' side of his Verlainian inspiration, and by D'un cahier d'esquisses, whose seductive visual and sonic qualities herald the Estampes et les Images. Après une lecture de Dante, the crowning achievement of the second 'year of pilgrimage', is a furious, epic, infernal, gloomy, unchained piece that, ahead of the Sonata in B minor, reaches a peak of Lisztian piano playing. A veritable spectrum of Schumann's Romanticism, the Symphonic Etudes in fact adopt the form of a theme with variations, moving from the most dazzling virtuosity to imponderable nocturnal poetry.