Name: Recital: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Plays Ravel, Haydn
Start: 2023-07-27T18:00:00
Location: Aspen Meadows Resort

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Aspen Music Festival

A passionate and charismatic artist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet brings elegance and personality to Haydn and Mozart, and illuminates the textures and color palettes of Debussy and Ravel. This engaging program opens with a charming Haydn sonata followed by what may be the briefest of musical nods to another composer in Ravel’s Menuet sur le nom de Haydn. In Jeux d’eau, Ravel was “inspired by the splashing of water and by the musical sounds of fountains, cascades and rivulets.” The first movement of Sonatine was written for a magazine competition. Although it was disqualified for being a few bars too long and the competition was canceled because the magazine was going under, the completed work is one of Ravel’s most charming. In its five movements, Miroirs evokes fluttering moths, birds lost in a hot, dark forest, a small boat in the ocean, a Spanish serenade, and distant church bells. Be inspired by the artistry of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in this captivating program!