{"id":2306,"date":"2021-06-23T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/koncerty\/david-fray-fok\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:47:22","slug":"david-fray-fok","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/programme\/david-fray-fok\/","title":{"rendered":"David Fray & FOK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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A poet of the piano<\/h2>\n

When French pianist David Fray<\/strong> gave his debut at the Firku\u0161n\u00fd festival in 2017, particularly in the Chopin pieces he remained true to his reputation as a \u201cpoet of the piano\u201d. Born in the Pyrenees region, with Moravian roots on his mother\u2019s side, he launched his career achieving competition success at the Montreal International Music Competition; in 2008 BBC Music Magazine named him Newcomer of the Year, and the Arte television channel broadcast a documentary about him by renowned director Bruno Monsaingeon<\/strong> entitled Sing, Swing & Think. Fray\u2019s repertoire extends from Johann Sebastian Bach<\/strong> to the late Pierre Boulez<\/strong>, while Bach and also Schubert are among his key composers. \u201cBach is the beginning and the end of classical music. He is the greatest composer,\u201d<\/em> the pianist states, adding that his music often moves him to tears. This season he continues his tour presenting the Goldberg Variations, and two years ago he got together with Renaud Capu\u00e7on<\/strong> to record Bach\u2019s Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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The Firku\u0161n\u00fd festival audience will be treated to the programme compiled from his penultimate album, featuring\u202fBach concertos for two, three and four keyboard instruments, in which \u2013 as on the recording \u2013 he is partnered by Jacques Rouvier<\/strong>, his teacher from the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur in Paris, and by Audrey Vigoureux<\/strong> and Emmanuel Christien<\/strong>, also former pupils of Rouvier. The artists will be accompanied by a string ensemble from the Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted from the piano by Fray himself.<\/p>\n

The BWV 1060-1063 and BWV 1065 concertos are associated with Bach\u2019s Leipzig period; these are versions of the composer\u2019s concertos for other instruments or arrangements of works by him that did not survive in their original form. Concerto in A minor BWV 1065 for four harpsichords is a transcription of Vivaldi\u2019s concerto L\u2019Estro armonico Op. 3 for four violins. As an admirer of Italian Baroque concertos, here Bach pays tribute to one of their greatest masters, the 280th anniversary of whose death we commemorate this year.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Watch the excerpt from Concerto for two keyboards by Bach<\/h4>\n <\/div>\n