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GEOFFROY COUTEAU
Geoffroy Couteau’s decision to record the complete corpus for solo
piano in chronological order of composition stems from the desire
to share with the listener the traversal of that style like a traversal
of time – the traversal of a life.
He seizes this body of work rather as a young actor might embark on
playing the character of Peer Gynt in Henrik Ibsen’s epic play, which
begins with a hero aged twenty and ends, more than six hours later,
with that same man in the twilight of his existence.
An itinerary in which, Ibsen teaches us, the essential challenge is to succeed
in being oneself. And it is a challenge that incontestably faced the language
of Brahms.