Alexandre Tharaud performs easy listening classical music for Le French May
Le French May's classical music offering on May 18 is a piano recital by Alexandre Tharaud. His easy-listening programme comprises 15 bite-sized movements from works by four composers.
ALEXANDRE THARAUD PIANO RECITAL
Le French May

Fellow Frenchman Maurice Ravel completed his Miroirs (Reflections) in 1905, and Tharaud has opted to play the middle three of its five movements: Sad Birds, A Boat on the Ocean and The Jester's Aubade.
The music is every bit as colourful as the titles, each being dedicated to one of Ravel's unconventional artistic friends.
Polish by birth, but French by dint of his long association with the city of Paris, Frédéric Chopin is represented by three of his popular waltzes from the 1830s, salon music that reflected the glitter of society ballrooms at the time.