Ravel · Bonis Clémence de Forceville & Ismaël Margain

• Mel Bonis (1858 - 1937): Phoebé, Op. 30 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Ismaël Margain):
• 1 Bonis: Phoebé, Op. 30 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Ismaël Margain) 02:51
• Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112:
• 2 Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: I. Moderato 04:58
• 3 Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: II. Presto 03:23
• 4 Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: III. Lento 06:01
• 5 Bonis: Violin Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 112: IV. Con moto 06:13
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Violin Sonata in G Major, M. 77:
• 6 Ravel: Violin Sonata in G Major, M. 77: I. Allegretto 07:48
• 7 Ravel: Violin Sonata in G Major, M. 77: II. Blues. Moderato 05:24
• 8 Ravel: Violin Sonata in G Major, M. 77: III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro 03:46
• Tzigane, M. 76:
• 9 Ravel: Tzigane, M. 76 10:18
• Total Runtime 50:42

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Mel Bonis und Maurice Ravel scheinen Welten voneinander entfernt zu sein – unterschiedliche Lebenswege, unterschiedliche Stile. Doch indem Clémence de Forceville ihre Musik auf einem einzigen Album vereint, deckt sie eine verborgene Verwandtschaft auf: Raffinesse, eine Vorliebe für das Exotische und Mythische, ein glühendes Feuer unter zurückhaltender Ausdruckskraft. Ein kühnes, aber erfolgreiches Unterfangen – zusammen mit Ismaël Margain fängt Clémence de Forceville die Intensität und Virtuosität dieser Werke ein und ermöglicht es, nicht nur einen, sondern gleich zwei musikalische Genies neu zu entdecken.

Clemence de Forceville, Violine
Ismaël Margain, Klavier

Clémence de Forceville
is considered one of the most promising French violinists of her generation. Her numerous activities as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher make her an accomplished and versatile musician.

Born in 1991, she began playing the violin at the age of 4 with Radu Blidar. She won her first international prizes at the age of 9 and gave her first concerts. She studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Olivier Charlier and then perfected her skills in Germany with Antje Weithaas and Mihaela Martin. Selected in international masterclasses such as Ravinia Stean's Music Institute, IMS Prussia Cove or Ozawa Academy, she receives the advice of great masters such as Daniel Barenboim, Eberhard Feltz, Andràs Schiff, Alfred Brendel, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Zakhar Bron..

Prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, she collaborates as a soloist with various orchestras such as the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of New Europe, the Südwestphalia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Portugese Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris or the Chamber Orchestra of Catalonia, in the great classical and romantic concertos as well as contemporary creations.

She has been invited to perform at numerous festivals in France and abroad such as Les Folles Journées, La Roque d'Anthéron, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Sonoro Festival, Verbier Festival, Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims.. She performs with artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Philippe Graffin, Shani Diluka, Gary Hoffman, Benedict Kloeckner, Anna Fedorova, Léa Hennino, and Adam Laloum. . she has already performed throughout the world in prestigious venues such as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Tokyo International Forum, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Victoria Hall in Geneva and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Passionately invested in the chamber music repertoire, she played as first violin of the Hieronymus String Quartet for three years, then with the Trio Sōra with whom she recorded the six great Beethoven Trios for a triple album released by the Naïve label. Acclaimed by international critics, the album also received a Choc Classica of the year 2021.

Fascinated by the symphonic repertoire, Clémence de Forceville has been first concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Orchestre National de Lille, and is regularly invited as concertmaster in various ensembles and orchestras. She has distinguished herself in concerts by playing/conducting in repertoires ranging from Beethoven to Stravinsky, notably at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées where she received critical acclaim. She has also performed within the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pierre Boulez Ensemble. She will be playing from march 2023 as first concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.

Since 2021 she has been teaching at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris as an assistant in Philippe Graffin's class.

Thanks to the generous support of the Boubo-Music Foundation, Clémence plays a violin by Lorenzo Storioni dating from 1777.

Ismaël Margain
was born in 1992 in Sarlat in the Dordogne departement of France, where he began his musical training (piano, flute, saxophone, jazz, composition...). The pianist and conductor Vahan Mardirossian, with whom Ismael has worked since his youth, introduced him to his former teacher, Jacques Rouvier, who prepared him for the entrance competition for the Conservatoire National de Musique et Danse in Paris. ​

Accepted unanimously, he chose to enroll in the class of Nicholas Angelich, then after Angelich’s departure, he chose to pursue his training with Roger Murano and Michel Dalberto. He was a prize winner in the International Competition“Generation SPEDIDAM 2011”, in which he performed Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto. The prize was awarded by Aldo Ciccolini. This led him to perform Ravel’s Concerto in G at the Touquet International Music Masters festival in 2012. ​

It was, however, through the international competition “Long-Thibaud 2012”, where he performedMozart’s twenty-third piano concerto, that Ismael gained general public recognition. In this competition he won the “Prix du Public” and the third Marguerite Long Grand Prize, presented by the president of the jury, Menahem Pressler. In 2015, he played this concerto in a televised performance as part of the “Victoires de la Musique” festival and competition, where he was recognized in the category,“instrumental soloist discovery". ​

In 2011, during a recital at the Limoges Opera, Ismaël rendered homage to Liszt on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth, and to one of his favorite composers, Schubert. He was invited very soon afterwards to perform in numerous festivals, for example the Easter and “Musical August” festivals at Deauville, the Chopin festival in Paris, the Festival of Music at Menton, the Bel-Air Keyboard Festival at Chambery, the Pablo Casals festival at Prades, the “Vacances de Monsieur Haydn” festival at La Roche-Posay, the “Printemps Musical des Alizes” festival at Essaouira in Morocco, “Tempo Piano Classique” at Croisic,“Piano aux Jacobins” at Toulouse,“Esprit du Piano” at Bordeaux,“Piano(s) a Lille”, and the Festival de Pont-Croix. He performs recitals and in chamber music with the Hermes quartet, Lise Berthaud, Edgar Moreau, Francois Salque, Gerard Causses, Alexandra Soumm, Bertrand Chamayou, Guillaume Vincent... and Adrien La Marca, who has invited him to record duets of Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann. He often plays at the Salle Cortot in Paris, for the Centre de Musique de Chambre, founded by Jerome Pernoo. ​

After winning the first prize in the competition of the “Societe des Arts” at Geneva, he has appeared in Germany at the Klavier Ruhr Festival, and in Switzerland and Bulgaria, performing Chopin’s second piano concerto. He has also toured Latin America and the United States, where he gave a series of recitals, concerts and master classes. ​

He has been invited to perform as soloist with several orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, and the Orchestre de l’Opera de Marseille. ​

Ismaël Margain is a resident artist at the Singer Polignac foundation, winner of the prize of the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, supported by the SAFRAN Foundation, and the l’Or du Rhin Foundation. He plays piano four-hands with Guillaume Bellom, with whom he has recorded two discs, dedicated to Mozart and Shubert, under the label Aparte/Harmonia Mundi. A Mendelssohn disc recorded live at Deauville on the B Records label came out in 2015. His first solo album, devoted to Schubert, will appear in early 2017.

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