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Album review: BBC Music Magazine

Under her hands all the pleasures of this portmanteau work emerge vividly: the passion of the opening movement and the breathless eagerness of the second; the dips into deep inwardness and the witty syncopations of the finale, which Grimaud makes deliciously sexy.

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New book “Renaître”

« C’est une petite fille, à la sortie d’un concert, qui m’a donné l’élan qui me manquait. Elle m’a demandé, simplement : La musique, ça sert à quoi ? J’ai été, un court instant, aussi déconcertée que ses parents. Oui, pour quoi faire la musique ? Et pour quoi faire tous ces musiciens grâce auxquels nous continuons à entendre un son qui traverse les siècles ? Tous ces artistes qui ne produisent ni ne fabriquent rien dans un monde pourtant dévolu à la matière, à la technique, un monde où, justement, la parole ni le dialogue ne sont plus vraiment le diapason de nos échanges. De là, ce livre, et l’idée que porte son titre Renaître. Ce n’est encore pas assez d’être né : il importe de se remettre au monde, et de l’aimer. » Hélène Grimaud “It was a little girl, after a concert, who gave me the momentum I was missing. She simply asked me: What’s the purpose of music? For a brief moment, I was as bewildered as her parents. Yes, what is the purpose of making music? And what about all those musicians thanks to whom we continue to hear a sound that travels through centuries? All these artists who neither produce nor manufacture anything in a world nonetheless devoted to matter, to technique, a world where, precisely, words and dialogue are no longer really the tuning fork of our exchanges. Hence this book, and the idea behind its title Reborn. It is still not enough to be born: it is important to put oneself back into the world, and to love it.”

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Album review: The Arts Fuse

Grimaud, a pianist whose grasp of the Romantic sensibility (especially the willingness to risk and commit all in pursuit of an artistic goal) is total, has a field day with it here. From the downbeat of the stormy, rhythmically a-blur “Äusserst bewegt,” this is a Kreisleriana that holds nothing back.

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Interview: Bunte Quarterly (Germany)

Intensiver Blick: Als Kind hatte Hélène Grimaud ein schwer zu bändigendes Temperament. Ihre Eltern suchten nach einer Lösung und schickten ihre Tochter zum Klavierunterricht. Heute zählt die Französin zu den berühmtesten Pianistinnen unserer Zeit.

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