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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.

Rachmaninoff - Prelude No 12 in G-sharp minor - Grimaud, Piano

Rachmaninoff – Prelude No. 12 – Grimaud, Piano

Thirteen Preludes Op. 32, is a set of thirteen preludes for solo piano, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1910. The prelude No 12 in G-Sharp Minor is one of the most famous.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Hélène Grimaud

Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, is a piano sonata in four movements. Frédéric Chopin completed the work while living in George Sand’s manor in Nohant, some 250 km (160 mi) south of Paris, a year before it was published in 1840.

Brahms - Piano Concerto No 1 - Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Hélène Grimaud

The Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, is a work for piano and orchestra completed by Johannes Brahms in 1858. The composer gave the work’s public debut in Hanover, the following year.

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Choral / Fantasy / Piano

Beethoven – Choral Fantasy – Grimaud, Piano

The Fantasy (Fantasia) for piano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80, usually called the Choral Fantasy, was composed in 1808 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The work is noted as a kind of forerunner to the later Ninth Symphony.

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 28 in A Major - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 28 – Hélène Grimaud

This sonata marks the beginning of what is generally regarded as Ludwig van Beethoven’s final period, where the forms are more complex, ideas more wide-ranging, textures more polyphonic, and the treatment of the themes and motifs even more sophisticated than before.