Alain Planès (piano)

Musical greatness is often inversely proportional to the size of the halls in which it is performed. This applies more to few musicians than to the French pianist Alain Planès. Although he follows a path that places him at the level of the greatest performers, he invariably prefers artistic integrity over showmanship. For many years he was the solo pianist of Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain, where he collaborated with eminent composers such as Ligeti and Berio. Planès' discography reveals a preference for the early Romantic and impressionistic repertoire: at the Harmonia Mundi label he recorded all the piano sonatas of Schubert and the complete keyboard music of Debussy on. With us, the refined grandmaster proves his courage by choosing Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, three composers who force the interpreter to tap into his deepest being in order to do justice to their genius. do.