Festival Messiaen 2025 - 1, 2, 3 Heisser ! Concert 2

Three pianists, three pianos - that's all it takes to celebrate 50 years of Jean-François Heisser's career!
His long and rich career embraces the piano, of course, as a soloist or chamber musician, orchestral conducting, artistic direction and also teaching for more than twenty years at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
His pupils have included Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, who joins him on stage for this exceptional concert with Jean-François Heisser's son Charles.

A rare instrumental line-up that, in this programme, covers nearly three centuries of music and diverse aesthetics.
The piano is orchestral in the brilliant and majestic Overture to The Master Singers of Nuremberg; it questions time in Feldman, an American composer close to John Cage and influenced by Schoenberg's dodecaphony, who develops an original system of notation. Composer Luigi Dallapiccola was one of the three pianists at the premiere of Inni ("Hymns") in 1936.
The piece develops an obsessive character around a single thematic motif. Jean-Frédéric Neuburger asserts his dual career as pianist and composer with equal talent, and in T, a title that leaves it to the listener to imagine what inspires him, he plays with colours and shifts.
Finally, contrapuntal language in Bach's Concerto BWV 1064, which brings this singular and exciting musical journey for three pianos to a brilliant close.

Jean-François Heisser, piano
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano
Charles Heisser, piano