Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Alexandre Tharaud, piano

Marin Marais
Cello Suite No. 1 in A minor - from Pièces de Viole, Book 3
Preludio – from Pièces de Viole, Book 2
Sarabande – from Pièces de Viole, Book 2
Les Folies d'Espagne for cello and piano - from Pièces de Viole, Book 2

Franz Schubert
Cello Sonata in D major, D 384

Francis Poulenc
Cello Sonata, FP 143

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Jean-Guihen Queyras Video biography

A long-standing friendship and a musical understanding with no secrets: the LuganoMusica audience already heard Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud's first récital at the LAC in 2019. Their return is one of the most eagerly-awaited chamber music concerts of the new LuganoMusica season.

Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras was a soloist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and has collaborated extensively with Pierre Boulez. His approach to music manages to connect sound worlds that are only distant in appearance and provides unique listening experiences without ever losing the desire to experiment. “I have always had an eclectic temperament. As a student, I was already inquisitive and flirted with all sorts of repertoire. Then, at the Conservatory, I was the one the composition students approached when they needed a guinea pig,” said Queyras in an interview for Bachtrack.

Along with pianist Alexandre Tharaud, he shares the same open vision of music. Together, they have recorded some of the greatest masterpieces for cello and piano, such as the Brahms Sonatas and Schubert's Arpeggione. Their latest recording project, released in 2020 by harmonia mundi, is called Complices and is a collection of some of their most acclaimed encores performed in the course of twenty years of concert performances.