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"Classic restraint, elegance and economy, an ideal absence of artifice and idiosyncrasy." Gramophone Pascal Rogé's performances around the world have established him as one of the great pianists of his generation and as a worldwide ambassador of the French repertoire. Following his recital debuts in London and Paris at the age of seventeen, he made his first recording for Decca. Shortly thereafter, he became an exclusive Decca artist, a collaboration which has produced over twenty recordings. Mr Rogé's interpretation of the two Ravel concertos with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony won both a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison Award and his recording of Poulenc's piano works received the 1988 Gramophone Award for Best Instrumental Recording. His three volumes of Satie Piano music are regarded as standard versions and have become worldwide best sellers. Other recordings feature a Ravel cycle, a Debussy cycle and an award-winning version of the complete Saint-Saëns piano concertos with Charles Dutoit. "Pascal Rogé brings delicacy, virtuosity and sparkle to the piano part...altogether delicious playing." The Penguin Guide on his Saint-Saëns performance. He has also recorded the Poulenc piano concerto, as well as Poulenc's Concerto Champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra. Rogé's disc of Ravel chamber music, made with Chantal Juillet and Truls Mørk won the 1997 Gramophone Award for Best Chamber Music Recording. Rogé exemplifies the finest in French pianism; his playing of Poulenc and Ravel in particular is characterized by its elegance, beauty and delicate phrasing; "illuminating, enchanting, a luxuriant version...this is arguably the finest recording of Ravel's piano works" Gramophone. He is widely known for his best-selling interpretations of Satie's piano works; "Rogé has real feeling for this repertoire and conveys its bitter-sweet quality and its grave melancholy as well as he does its lighter qualities. This remains the primary recommendation on CD for this repertoire." Penguin Guide Along with his other specialities, Rogé has made Poulenc's music virtually his own over the last thirty years and it is repertoire with which he feels a deep affinity. He is one of the chief protagonists of Decca's Poulenc Centenary celebration box sets. With Charles Dutoit, he has contributed all the orchestral music for keyboard; "A new disc from either Pascal Rogé or Charles Dutoit is almost always a guarantee of consummate musicianship." wrote BBC Music Magazine of the recent Concert champêtre disc and The Sunday Times called it "A delight from start to finish". Rogé's final disc (Volume 3) of the Complete Music for Solo Piano was the most recent issue along with The Complete Mélodies which he recorded with Felicity Lott, François Le Roux, Gilles Cachemaille and Catherine Dubosc. Pascal Rogé is known as one of the most stylish artists of his generation, both as concert artist and recitalist. His busy schedule partners him with leading conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons and Kurt Masur. He has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world and some of the orchestras he has appeared with include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, l'Orchestre de Paris, l'Orchestre National de Radio France, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Geneva, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and all the major London orchestras. He appears regularly in the United States, is a frequent guest artist in Latin America, Mexico, Australia and especially in Japan. Recent activities during the 1999/2000 season included appearances with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and with the Vienna Symphony . Recitals in London's Wigmore Hall, in Berlin, Vienna, and at the Sintra Festival (Portugal), a chamber music tour of Italy and Spain were among the artist's activities during spring of 2000. The season 2000-01 features appearances at the Grand Teton Festival in Wyoming, in Singapore, and Taipei, concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, recitals in Bergamo, Pescara, Paris, London , to name some. In the autumn of 2001 Pascal Rogé will tour Australia and return to Japan for his 20th tour of that country.
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