Annees de Pelerinage : Chamayou (3CD)

Liszt:
Annees de pelerinage, Premiere annee, Suisse (9 pieces), S. 160
Annees de pelerinage, Deuxieme annee, Italie (7 pieces), S. 161
Supplement: Venezia e Napoli (3 pieces), S. 162
Annees de pelerinage, Troisieme annee (7 pieces), S. 163

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Recorded: 2011

With this recording of the complete Annees de Pelerinage by Franz Liszt, the celebrated French pianist Bertrand Chamayou makes his own personal musical statement to celebrate the composer's 200th anniversary. During the anniversary year Bertrand Chamayou has undertaken the monumental feat of playing the whole of this set of pieces in a single three-hour performance at many leading venues throughout the world.

Pianist Bertrand Chamayou was born in Toulouse in 1981, and is among the most sought after personalities on the music scene today. After he became a prize-winner at the international Long-Thibaud competition at in 2001 Bertrand's talent was spotted by pianist Jean-Francois Heisser who was later to become his professor at Paris Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique. He went on to complete his training with Maria Curcio in London and was given precious advice by such great masters as Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Murray Perahia.