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Grimaud was born in 1969 in Aix-en-Provence and began her piano studies at the local conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin before going on to work with Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. She was accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at just 13 and won first prize in piano performance a mere three years later. She continued to study with György Sándor and Leon Fleisher until, in 1987, she gave her well-received debut recital in Tokyo. That same year, renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim invited her to perform with the Orchestre de Paris: this marked the launch of Grimaud’s musical career, characterised ever since by concerts with most of the world’s major orchestras and many celebrated conductors.

Debussy – Clair de Lune (Moonlight) – Grimaud, Piano

Clair de Lune (Moonlight) in D-Flat Major is the third and most famous movement from Claude Debussy’s Suite bergamasque. Its name comes from Verlaine’s poem “Clair de lune”, which means “moonlight” in French.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 23 in A major - Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Mozart – Concerto No. 23 – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488) was finished on March 2, 1786, two months prior to the premiere of the opera, Le nozze di Figaro and some three weeks prior to the completion of his next piano concerto.

Bach - Prelude No 2, Book I - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Prelude

Bach – Prelude No. 2, Book I – Grimaud, Piano

Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847, is a keyboard composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the second prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Schumann - Kreisleriana VI (Sehr Langsam) - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana VI (Sehr Langsam) – Grimaud, Piano

Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850.

Chopin - Ballade No 1 in G Minor - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Ballade / Piano

Chopin – Ballade No. 1 – Grimaud, Piano

Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, dates to sketches Chopin made in 1831 during his eight-month stay in Vienna. It was completed in 1835 after his move to Paris, where he dedicated it to Baron Nathaniel von Stockhausen, the Hanoverian ambassador to France.

Chopin - Mazurka in A Minor, Op 17 No 4 - Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Mazurka / Piano

Chopin – Mazurka Op. 17 No. 4 – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

Mazurka in A Minor is the last one from Op 17, a set of four mazurkas composed by Frédéric Chopin between 1832 and 1833. It is a real masterpiece, in the form of a dance poem. Written in A minor, it is in 3/4 and is marked Lento, ma non troppo.

Satie - Gymnopédie No 1 - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1 – Grimaud, Piano

The Gymnopédie No. 1 is part of Gymnopédies, three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie and published in Paris starting in 1888.

Rachmaninoff, Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor - Hélène Grimaud

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Rachmaninoff – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Hélène Grimaud

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36, in B-Flat Minor, was composed by Sergei Rachmaninov in 1913. Rachmaninoff revised it in 1931, with the note, “The new version, revised and reduced by author.”

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Variation

Chopin – Berceuse in D-Flat Major – Grimaud, Piano

Chopin’s Berceuse, Op. 57, is a lullaby to be played on the piano. He composed it in 1843/44 as variations in D-flat major. Frédéric Chopin originally called his work Variantes.

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4 – Hélène Grimaud

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op. 58, was composed in 1805–1806. Ludwig van Beethoven was the soloist in the public premiere as part of the concert on 22 December 1808 at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.