Franz Liszt

• 1. Waltz from Faust, Concert Paraphrase (after Gounod), S.407 12’16

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano sonata n°. 15 in C major, K. 545 ‘Sonata facile’(easy sonata)

• 2. Allegro 5’30
• 3. Andante 5’27
• 4. Rondo-Allegretto 2’06

Johannes Brahms

Variationen über ein Thema von Paganini op. 35

Book I

• 5. Thème 0’35
• 6. Variation I 0’33
• 7. Variation II 0’37
• 8. Variation III 0’38
• 9. Variation IV 0’56
• 10. Variation V 0’51
• 11. Variation VI 0’31
• 12. Variation VII 0’36
• 13. Variation VIII 0’37
• 14. Variation IX 1’28
• 15. Variation X 1’48
• 16. Variation XI. Andante 1’15
• 17. Variation XII 1’12

Book II*

• 18. Variation I 0’54
• 19. Variation II. Poco animato 0’39
• 20. Variation III 0’36
• 21. Variation IV. Poco allegretto 0’56
• 22. Variation V 0’27
• 23. Variation VI. Poco più vivace 0’29
• 24. Variation VII 0’24
• 25. Variation VIII. Allegro 0’43
• 26. Variation IX 1’03
• 27. Variation X. Veloce, energico 0’57
• 28. Variation XI. Vivace 0’36
• 29. Variation XII. Un poco andante 1’24
• 30. Variation XIII. Un poco più andante 0’54

• 31. Variation XIII (Book I) 0’42
• 32. Variation XIV. Allegro (Book I) 2’32

Franz Liszt

• 33. Réminiscences de Norma (after Bellini’s opera), S.394 17’52

Sergueï Rachmaninoff

• 34. Wohin ? (transcription for piano from Franz Schubert‘s Die schöne Müllerin) 2’48

* Michel Dalberto does not play the Theme from the Variations at the beginning of Book II and has
chosen to play only the Finale (Variation XIV) from Book I to close the cycle.

Born in Paris in 1955, Michel Dalberto was thirteen when he entered the class of Vlado Perlemuter, one of Alfred Cortot’s favourite pupils, at the Paris Conservatoire. Jean Hubeau also had a great influence on the young pianist.

At the age of twenty he won the First Mozart Competition in Salzburg and was unanimously awarded the Clara Haskil Prize. The First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition (where he succeeded Radu Lupu, András Schiff and Murray Perahia) sealed his reputation in 1978.

He was then invited to play in most of Europe’s musical centres with such conductors as Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Charles Dutoit, Sir Colin Davis, Yuri Temirkanov and Daniele Gatti. He is also a guest at major festivals, including Lucerne, Florence, Aix-en-Provence, the Wiener Festwochen, Edinburgh, Schleswig- Holstein, La Grange de Meslay, La Roque d’Anthéron, Newport, Miami and Seattle. Since the beginning of his career, Michel Dalberto has been acknowledged as one of the leading interpreters of Schubert and Mozart. Among his other composers of predilection are Liszt, Debussy, Fauré, Schumann and Ravel.

A renowned chamber musician, he plays in trio formation with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, in duo partnerships with Boris Belkin, Vadim Repin, Nikolaj Znaider, Yuri Bashmet, Gérard Caussé, Truls Mørk and Emmanuel Pahud, and performs the piano quintet repertory with the Ébène and Modigliani quartets. In the domain of vocal music, he has partnered Jessye Norman, Barbara Hendricks and Nathalie Stutzmann. Michel Dalberto has also acquired experience as a conductor over the past few years and has conducted many orchestras in Asia and Europe.