Hèlené Grimaud - The Emperor Concerto Ludwig van Beethoven • Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden 2007

EPOS IMAGES TV: https://www.youtube.com/c/EPOSIMAGES Hélène Grimaud & Staatskapelle Dresden: Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 in E Flat Major op73 (English Version) - performed in Dresden Saxony Germany 2007 Hélène Grimaud (born 7 November 1969) is a French classical pianist. Hélène Grimaud was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She described family nationalities in a New York Times interview with John Rockwell: "My father came from a background of Sephardic Jews in Africa, and my mother's ancestors were Jewish Berbers from Corsica." Her father was adopted as a child by a French family and he became a university tutor teaching languages.[3] According to Luc Antonini her surname is typical of the region of Trets in Provence. She has stated that, as a child, she was often "agitated". She discovered the piano at age nine. In 1982, she entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where she studied with Jacques Rouvier. In 1985, she won 1st Prize at the Conservatory and the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles Cros for her recording of the Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2. In 1987, she launched her professional career with a solo recital in Paris and a performance with the Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Barenboim. In 1991, at age 21, Grimaud moved to Tallahassee, Florida, to be near a boyfriend who taught bassoon at Florida State University. In 1997, she settled in Westchester County, north of New York City. After some time spent in Berlin, she currently resides in Switzerland. She has a passion for wolves, which she studies and raises. She now divides her time between her musical career and the Wolf Conservation Center, which she co-founded with her former companion, photographer J. Henry Fair. Hélène Grimaud experiences synesthesia, where one physical sense adds to another, in her case seeing music as color, which helps her with memorising music scores. She performed at the Last Night of the BBC Proms in London in September 2008, playing the piano part of Beethoven's Choral Fantasia. This is the stuff from which magic is made: Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, op. 73 -- known as the "Emperor" Concerto, heroic and powerful. "The piece became an incredible teacher: it helped me to look within myself and to go beyond certain limits" (Hélène Grimaud). On Hélène Grimaud's "Beethoven" album the Concerto is coupled with a piano sonata out of Beethoven's late compositional phase where -- noticeable in the slow movement of the concerto as well -- the composer's concern for lyricism had deepened. Thus intimacy and delicacy are the features in the beautiful Piano Sonata no. 28, op. 101 chosen by Grimaud. movie edited by EPOS IMAGES production youtube video google