Johannes Brahms - Geneviève Laurenceau / Johan (...)

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) SONATES POUR VIOLON GENEVIEVE LAURENCEAU violon, JOHAN FARJOT piano

SONATAS FOR VIOLIN OF JOHANNES BRAHMS GENEVIEVE LAURENCEAU violin, JOHAN FARJOT piano

Zig-Zag Territoires recently discovered Geneviève Laurenceau’s talent, brillant violonist, super-solist of the orchestre du capitole de Toulouse, 1er price of Novossibirsk international competition & Grand Prix of the Académie Maurice Ravel. She is partner of ensemble Contraste (Arnaud Thorette & Johan Farjot) with whom we recorded Café 1930 arrangements of tangos in 2009.

Geneviève Laurenceau, prodigy violonist, goes very young to Germany to perfect her violin with the german master Wolfgang Marschner once Konzertmeister of the Dresden Staatskapelle and later with the russian master Zakhar Bron major teacher (Vadim Repin was one of his pupils) and finally comes back to her french roots with Jean Jacques Kantorow.

She waits until 33 years old and a clear maturity to record with Johan Farjot on a stradivarius violin of 1682, her first solo recording in a major disputed repertoire, highest point of Brahms inspiration and romantic chamber music : the three sonatas for violin and piano.

« And if the three sonatas of Brahms belongs to the most beautiful pieces written for violin and piano, Brahms was part of my musical environment since the beginnings. I recall the emotion I felt when I was 11 years old, as I was listening to the second sonata : the beauty of the moving themes that I was listening for the first time left an immediate and longlasting grove. I dreamt to the time I would be old enough to play Brahms and this sonata above all.

Childhood emotions are intuitives and spontaneous ; sometimes they disappear and lose their strenght ; but my passion for Brahms stayed and his language lasted, I love listening to Brahms as well as playing it. I love entering in his noble and deep sounds, following his long lines clear and generous, the beauty of his passionate thems, nostalogic and delicate, I love the balance which exists in his pieces, the happy harmony generated by these lines. In Brahms music, I see the nature everywhere, its strong colors, tender, green and blue, I ear the rain falling ; I see the blue mountains of the black forest, large lakes which sometimes are covered by gray and heavy clouds ; I feel the grass under my barefeet and smell the moss of the under-woods... » Geneviève Laurenceau