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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.

Chopin - Nocturne No 19 in E Minor Op 72 No 1 - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Nocturne / Piano

Chopin – Nocturne No. 19 – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

The Nocturne No. 19 in E minor, Op. 72 No. 1, was the first one written by Frédéric Chopin in 1827. Until then the nocturne form had been the exclusive domain of John Field, an Irish-born composer.

Bach-Liszt - Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 - Grimaud, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIC / Fugue / Piano / Prelude

Bach-Liszt – Prelude and Fugue – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

Prelude and Fugue in A minor, is a piece of organ music written by Bach sometime around his years as court organist to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1708–1717). Because of the piece’s overall rhapsodic nature, many organists play this piece freely, and in a variety of tempi.

Hélène Grimaud performs Rachmaninoff's Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 No. 2 in C Major and No. 1 in F Minor.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33 No. 1,2 – Grimaud, Piano

The Études-Tableaux (“study pictures”), Op. 33, is the first of two sets of piano études composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. They were intended to be “picture pieces”, essentially “musical evocations of external visual stimuli”.

Beethoven - Emperor Concerto (No. 5) in E-Flat Major - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Beethoven – Emperor Concerto (No. 5) – Hélène Grimaud

The Piano Concerto No. 5 by Beethoven, popularly known as the Emperor Concerto, was his last completed piano concerto. It was written between 1809 and 1811 in Vienna, and was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf, Beethoven’s patron and pupil.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 23 in A major (Adagio) - Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto

Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23 (Adagio) – Hélène Grimaud

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, Busoni - Chaconne in D Minor BWV 1004 - Grimaud, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIC / Dance / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Bach-Busoni – Chaconne in D Minor – Grimaud, Piano

The Chaconne in D Minor from Johann Sebastian Bach is the fifth and last movement of its Partita No 2 in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004), written between 1717 and 1720.

Ravel - Jeux d'Eau in E Major - Grimaud, Piano

IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC / Piano

Ravel – Jeux d’Eau (Water Games) – Grimaud, Piano

Jeux d’eau is a piece in E Major for solo piano by Maurice Ravel. The title is often translated as “Fountains”, “Playing water” or literally “Water Games”.

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

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Variation

Chopin – Berceuse – Hélène 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.

Schumann - Kreisleriana VIII (Schnell Und Spielend) - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana VIII (Schnell Und Spielend) – Grimaud, Piano

It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850. In 1839, soon after publishing it, Schumann called it in a letter my favorite work, remarking that The title conveys nothing to any but Germans.

Brahms - Rhapsody No 1 in B Minor - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Rhapsody

Brahms – Rhapsody No. 1 – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

The Rhapsodies, Op. 79, for piano were written by Johannes Brahms in 1879 during his summer stay in Pörtschach, when he had reached the maturity of his career.