Philippe Cassard (born 12 September 1962) is a French classical pianist.
Biography
Born in
Besançon
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Capi ...
, Cassard was trained at the
Conservatoire de Paris
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where he won two
first prizes, for piano (
Dominique Merlet
Dominique Marie-Joseph Merlet (born 18 February 1938) is a French contemporary pianist, organist and music educator.
Biography
Born in Bordeaux, Dominique Merlet was a student of Jean Roger-Ducasse, Roger-Ducasse, Louis Hiltbrand, and Nadia Bo ...
's class) and for
chamber music
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(
Geneviève Joy
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's class) in 1982. He then spent two years (1983–85), at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
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(
Hans Graf
Hans Graf (born 15 February 1949 in Marchtrenk) is an Austrian conductor.
Biography
As a child, Graf learned the violin and the piano. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Graz, Austria, and graduated with diplomas in piano and conducting. He a ...
's and
Erik Werba
Erik Werba (23 May 1918 – 9 April 1992) was an Austrian classical pianist who is especially known as an accompanist of singers. He was also a music critic, conductor, composer, author and academic teacher.
Career
Werba was born in Baden bei ...
's classes). After perfecting his skills with
Nikita Magaloff
Nikita Magaloff (; 26 December 1992) was a Georgia (country), Georgian-Russian pianist.
He was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland. His musical interes ...
, he was awarded the
Clara Haskil International Piano Competition
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The competition is a member of the World Federat ...
, then in 1988 he won the Dublin International Competition.
He made his concert debut in Paris in 1985 with mezzo-soprano
Christa Ludwig
Christa Ludwig (16 March 1928 – 24 April 2021) was a German mezzo-soprano and sometime dramatic soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, lieder, oratorio, and other major religious works like masses, passions, and solos in symph ...
.
His international career takes him to Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan, China, South America, Russia. He plays with the major British orchestras (
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, English Chamber, Hallé and BBC Manchester, Ulster Orchestra) and under the direction of
Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner, (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English conductor and violinist. Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ra ...
,
Alexander Gibson,
Vladimir Fedoseyev
Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev (; born 5 August 1932, in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian conductor, accordionist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989) and the Glinka State Prize of ...
,
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Yan Pascal Tortelier (born 19 April 1947) is a French conductor and violinist.
Biography
Born in Paris, Tortelier is the son of the cellist Paul Tortelier, and the brother of Maria de la Pau. Tortelier began piano and violin studies at age 4. A ...
,
Armin Jordan
Armin Jordan (9 April 1932 – 20 September 2006) was a Swiss conductor known for his interpretations of French music, Mozart and Wagner.
Armin Jordan was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. "Mr. Jordan was a large man, with a slab of a face and a ful ...
,
Thierry Fischer
Thierry Fischer (born 28 September 1957) is a Swiss orchestra conductor and flutist.
Early life and education
Fischer was born in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia) to Swiss parents. He studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet and bega ...
,
Charles Dutoit
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In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award. Dutoit held previous positions ...
,
Emmanuel Krivine
Emmanuel Krivine (born 7 May 1947, Grenoble) is a French conductor.
Biography
The son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, Krivine studied the violin as a youth. He was a winner of the ''Premier Prix'' at the Paris Conservatoire, at age 16. ...
,
Rico Saccani
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...
,
Alexander Anisimov
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Anissimov was born in Moscow.
In 1995 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the National Symphony ...
, etc.
He is regularly invited to the
Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron
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, the Irish Great Houses,
Kuhmo, Lincoln, Pharos Trust, West Cork,
Besançon International Music Festival The Besançon International Music Festival () is one of the oldest festivals of classical music that takes place in the city of Besançon, northeastern France, over two weeks from around the middle of September. It was created in 1948.
It is partic ...
, ''
La Folle Journée
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''.
He practices chamber music with
Natalie Dessay
Natalie Dessay (; born 19 April 1965) is a French soprano, best known as an opera singer before her retirement from the opera stage in 2013. She gained wide recognition after her portrayal of Olympia in ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' in 1992, and then ...
,
Karine Deshayes
Karine Deshayes (; born 25 January 1973) is a French mezzo-soprano. She is noted for her interpretations of bel canto roles (principally Rossini and Bellini).
Biography
Deshayes was born in Rueil-Malmaison. She studied musicology at the Sorbo ...
,
Angelika Kirchschlager
Angelika Kirchschlager (born 24 November 1965, Salzburg) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.
Career
Kirchschlager began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied percussion and piano. In 1984, she w ...
,
Stéphanie d'Oustrac
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*Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born 1984), Belgian noble; wife of Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
*Princess Stéphanie (disambig ...
,
Wolfgang Holzmair
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Holzmair studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He won 2nd prize in the baritone class of the 's-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition in 1981, an ...
,
Donna Brown,
Isabelle Faust
Isabelle Faust (born 19 March 1972) is a German violinist who has worked internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She has received multiple awards.
Life and career
Faust was born in Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, on 12 Mar ...
,
David Grimal,
Anne Gastinel,
Diemut Poppen,
Matt Haimovitz
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Family, musical education and ea ...
,
Christophe Desjardins, the Moraguès wind quintet, the
Ysaÿe,
Takács,
Ébène
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,
Modigliani,
Voce,
Chilingirian, Vanbrugh String Quartets etc., actors
Philippe Torreton,
Françoise Fabian
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The Manifesto of the 343 Women () ...
,
Judith Magre
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Filmography
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Magre, Judith
1926 births
Living people
French film actresses
French television ...
,
Micheline Dax
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The Paris-born actress was born Micheline Josette Renée Etevenon. Sh ...
,
Roland Bertin
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Selected filmography
* '' Le ...
, the Solistes de Lyon/
Bernard Tétu...
Cassard's name is closely linked to
Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...
, a complete recording of which he made in 1994 and that he played in one day and four concerts in Besançon, Paris, Marseille, Angoulème, London, Dublin, Sydney, Tokyo, Lisbon, Vancouver and Singapore. He has recorded several discs dedicated to Schubert. His recording of Brahms' ''
Klavierstücke'' Op 116 to 119 was released in 2010.
In 2012, several projects related to Debussy were born: complete solo piano projects played in one day (
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Lille Piano(s) Festival, Toulouse d'Été, Paris Salle Gaveau); a collaboration with soprano Natalie Dessay in a program that included youth melodies, 4 of which had never been performed before, as well as ''
La Damoiselle élue
''La Damoiselle élue'' ('' The Blessed Damozel''), L. 62, is a cantata for soprano and contralto soloists, 2-part female chorus, and orchestra, composed by Claude Debussy in 1887–1888 based on a text by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It premiered in ...
'' cantata. Recitals accompany the release of this CD at the
Wigmore Hall
The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall at 36 Wigmore Street, in west London. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and opened in 1901 as the Bechstein Hall; it is considered to have particularly good building acoustics, acoustics. It specialis ...
of London, the
salle Pleyel
The Salle Pleyel (, meaning "Pleyel Hall") is a concert hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, designed by the acoustician Gustave Lyon together with the architect Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926, and the work was completed i ...
in Paris, the
Victoria Hall of Geneva, the , the
Corum of
Montpellier
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and finally a CD of works for 4 hands and 2 pianos (''
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
''Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune'' ( L. 86), known in English as ''Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun'', is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was composed in 1894 and first performed ...
'', ''
Petite suite'', ''
En blanc et noir
''En blanc et noir'' (; ), L. 134, CD. 142, is a suite in three movements for two pianos by Claude Debussy, written in June 1915. He composed the work on the Normandy coast, suffering from cancer and concerned about the prospects of France in t ...
'', ''Lindaraja'', ''Première Suite pour orchestre'', previously unreleased on disc) with pianist François Chaplin.
In 2013, he was invited at
La Folle Journée
La Folle Journée is a French annual classical music festival held in Nantes. It is the largest classical music festival in France. The festival's name refers to the Pierre Beaumarchais play ''The Marriage of Figaro'', whose alternative title i ...
of Nantes, Bilbao and Tokyo/Kanazawa.
He became an adviser to the "classical" music programme at the Festival (Charente-Maritime), and hired Natalie Dessay,
Baptiste Trotignon,
Dominique Merlet
Dominique Marie-Joseph Merlet (born 18 February 1938) is a French contemporary pianist, organist and music educator.
Biography
Born in Bordeaux, Dominique Merlet was a student of Jean Roger-Ducasse, Roger-Ducasse, Louis Hiltbrand, and Nadia Bo ...
,
Anne Queffélec
Anne Queffélec (born 17 January 1948) is a French classical pianist, born in Paris.
Biography
Anne Queffélec is the daughter of Henri Queffélec and sister of Yann Queffélec, both noted writers. Her brother Hervé Queffélec is a mathema ...
,
Michel Dalberto
Michel Dalberto (born 2 June 1955) is a French concert pianist.
Biography
Dalberto was born in Paris into a non-musical family. He began studying the piano at the age of three and a half. When he was twelve, he was introduced to Vlado Perlemuter ...
,
Yevgeny Sudbin
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, Geoffroy Couteau,
Roger Muraro,
Nelson Goerner,
Cédric Pescia
Cédric Pescia (born 1976) is a pianist. He is a dual citizen of France and Switzerland.
Biography
Pescia studied at the Conservatoire de Musique in Lausanne, the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and t ...
, etc.
During the year 2014, Philippe Cassard and Natalie Dessay performed in prestigious venues and festivals:
Jordan Hall Jordan Hall may refer to:
People
* Jordan Hall (writer), writer of the web series ''Carmilla''
* Jordan Hall (lacrosse) (born 1984), Canadian lacrosse player
* Jordan Hall (basketball) (born 2002), American basketball player
* Jordan Hall (Americ ...
(Boston),
Carnegie Hall
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(New York),
Suntory Hall
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(Tokyo),
Salle Gaveau
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The plans for t ...
(Paris), the , as well as in Seoul, Montreal, Quebec City and San Francisco. They recorded a second CD
Erato Records
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, 2015. combining melodies by Duparc, Fauré, Chausson and Poulenc.
For "La Dolce Volta" label, Philippe Cassard returned to Schubert, with sonata D959 and works for piano for 4 hands (Fantaisie D940, Lebensstürme D947, Rondo D951) with the Swiss pianist
Cédric Pescia
Cédric Pescia (born 1976) is a pianist. He is a dual citizen of France and Switzerland.
Biography
Pescia studied at the Conservatoire de Musique in Lausanne, the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and t ...
.
Cassard was
artistic director
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of the
Festival des Nuits Romantiques (1999–2008). He invited artists such as
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (; ; born 5 June 1941) is an Argentine classical concert pianist. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argerich gave her debut concert at the age of eight before receiving further piano training in Europe. At an early age, she won sev ...
,
Radu Lupu
Radu Lupu (30 November 1945 – 17 April 2022) was a Romanian pianist. He was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of his time.
Born in Galați, Romania, Lupu began studying piano at the age of six. Two of his major piano teache ...
,
Aldo Ciccolini
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Biography
Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples. His father, whose family bore the title of Marquis in the city of Macera ...
,
Jordi Savall
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, the
Alban Berg Quartett
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,
Felicity Lott
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Education
Lott was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and bega ...
,
Augustin Dumay
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Biography
Dumay was invited as a soloist to appear with Yo-Yo Ma in Paris by Herbert von Karajan. Later on, he performed Béla Bartók's ''Second Concerto'' with ...
,
Leif Ove Andsnes
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,
Nelson Freire
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,
Paul Meyer,
André Dussollier
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, the
BBC Philharmonic
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, the
Orchestre national de France
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etc.
A regular producer at
France Musique
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History
The channel was lau ...
since 2005 with more than 400 broadcasts of ''Notes du traducteur'', a program that was crowned by the SCAM prize for "best sound work" in 2007, all radios combined. A boxed set of 6 CDs containing some of the programmes he devoted to Schubert was released at the end of 2011 (France Musique/Harmonia Mundi) and won the Grand Prix of the
Académie Charles-Cros
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. In 2015, another 6-CD box set was issued, this time dedicated to Debussy.
Since September 2014, he has been collaborating on the broadcast ''Classic avec Dessay'' on
France Inter
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It is the successor to Paris Inter, later known as France I, and created as a merger of the France I and France II networks, first as RTF Inter in October 1963, then ren ...
, providing the musical programming.
He has been giving
masterclass
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es since 2008 at the
Royal Northern College of Music
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in Manchester (''Visiting Tutor''), and at the Tibor Varga Academy
in Sion (Switzerland) during the summer. He was a jury member at international competitions in Geneva, Epinal, Dublin, Melbourne.
Philippe Cassard is the author of an essay dedicated to Schubert (
Actes Sud
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...
- Classica, 2008) and an interview book with
Jean Narboni and Marc Chevrie ''Deux temps trois mouvements'' (Capricci, 2012) devoted to music and cinema.
Distinction
* Chevalier of the
National Order of Merit (1999)
Selected discography
*
Ludwig van Beethoven
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's
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op. 125, transcribed in 1851 for two pianos by
Franz Liszt
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and catalogued as S. 657, with
Cédric Pescia
Cédric Pescia (born 1976) is a pianist. He is a dual citizen of France and Switzerland.
Biography
Pescia studied at the Conservatoire de Musique in Lausanne, the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and t ...
(
La Dolce Volta, 2020)
* Schubert's
Sonata in A major, D. 959 +
Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands, D 940, Lebensstürme D947, Rondo D951 with Cédric Pescia (
La Dolce Volta, 2014)
*
Debussy
Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...
's Mélodies, with Natalie Dessay, soprano (Virgin's Classics, 2012)
* Debussy's Works for piano for 4 hands and 2 pianos, with François Chaplin (
Decca
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Music
* Decca Records or Decca Music Group, record label
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* Decca Studios, recording facility in West ...
, 2012)
*
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period (music), Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, oft ...
's ''Klavierstücke'' Op. 116-119 (2010)
*
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
's 4 Impromptus D899, 4 Impromptus D935, 2 Lieder transcribed by Liszt (2008)
*
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...
's Fantasiestücke Op. 12, ''
Kinderszenen
' (, "Scenes from Childhood"), Opus number, Op. 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838.
History and description
Schumann wrote 30 movements for this work but chose 13 for the final version. T ...
'' Op. 15,
Humoresk Op. 20 (2004)
*
Jean Françaix
Jean René Désiré Françaix (pronunciation Fran-say or Fran-seks) was born on 23 May 1912, in Le Mans and died in 25 September 1997, in Paris). Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator known for his prolific outp ...
's Concertino, with the
Ulster Orchestra
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, direction
Thierry Fischer
Thierry Fischer (born 28 September 1957) is a Swiss orchestra conductor and flutist.
Early life and education
Fischer was born in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia) to Swiss parents. He studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet and bega ...
(2004)
*
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
's
Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960,
Piano Sonata in A major, D 664 (2002)
* ''Victor Hugo, poèmes en musique'', with
Marie Devellereau, soprano (melodies by Bizet, Fauré, Saint-Saens, Lalo, Hahn, Liszt, Britten, Donizetti)
* ''Sur le bout des doigts'': works by Scarlatti, Bach, Schubert (Impromptu op.142/1), Chopin (Prélude, Étude), Schumann (Arabesque, first movement of the Trio in G minor), Debussy (Toccata, ''
Jardins sous la pluie''), Smetana (Final of the Trio in G minor) with the participation of
David Grimal (violin) and
Henri Demarquette (cello)
* Debussy's
Préludes (books 1 and 2), ''Images'' (books 1 and 2), ''Estampes'', ''Images Oubliées'', ''L'Isle Joyeuse''
*''Portes Ouvertes'': music of the 20th century with
Matt Haimovitz
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Family, musical education and ea ...
, cello; Debussy, Sonata -
Benjamin Britten
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's Sonata Op. 65 -
Anton Webern
Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyric poetry, lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonality, aton ...
's 3 little pieces Op. 11.
Publications
* ''Franz Schubert'',
Actes Sud
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* ''Deux temps trois mouvements. Un pianiste au cinéma'', interview with Marc Chevrie and Jean Narboni, Capricci, 2012
References
External links
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France Musique
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History
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Philippe Cassard(
France Culture
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Philippe Cassard, piano(Festival Nohant)
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Debussy : Clair de lune par Philippe Cassard(YouTube)
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20th-century French male classical pianists
20th-century French classical pianists
French radio producers
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
1962 births
Musicians from Besançon
Living people
21st-century French male classical pianists
21st-century French classical pianists