Concerts

Special concert for the trade-union organisation

His first documented Sofia appearance, at twenty.

American orchestral debut

Followed by a month at Meadow Brook with Istomin, Stern and Rose.

Recital during a Soviet tour

One of many tours of the USSR over some twenty years; the critic S. Kerimov praised a vivid, fully formed personality.

Concert of Jean-Bernard Pommier and Nel Gotkovska

Symphony concert

“The Music of Beethoven”

Summer residency of the Istomin-Stern-Rose Trio

The summer of Stern's forgotten scores, with Zukerman and Lynn Harrell among the young musicians.

Concert with Asen Naydenov

ORTF, “Le Palmarès des chansons”: Liszt, ‘Liebestraum’

A television broadcast, not a concert hall.

Concert with Konstantin Iliev

Concert with Konstantin Iliev (repeat)

Recital

Concert with Dobrin Petkov

Concert with Dobrin Petkov (repeat)

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

A live recording survives.

Concerts Renaissances

With Schneider, of the Casals circle, and the cellist Paul Tortelier.

Bach: Concerto for four keyboards BWV 1065

The year of his Salzburg debut.

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

Concerts Renaissances

With the oboist Maurice Bourgue, forty years before their Musikè concerts.

Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos K. 365

At the festival founded by Pablo Casals, recorded live.

Recital

Subscription cycle A, 3rd concert

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3

A live recording survives.

Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 537 “Coronation”

A RAI public-season concert, broadcast in May 1973.

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3

A live recording survives.

Subscription concerts nos. 1073 and 1074

His earliest documented Barcelona appearance. The programme survives in the Palau's own archive.

Recital: Bach · Brahms, Handel Variations · Schumann, Abegg Variations · Ravel, Sonatine · Debussy

For the Società dei Concerti.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3

Broadcast that summer by Dutch radio.

Concerts Renaissances

Two days before the Istomin concert of 31 May.

Guest soloist

Tour of the Strasbourg Philharmonic

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2

Duke's calendar later recalled his “brilliant performance”.

Subscription concerts nos. 1134 and 1135, 3 and 4 May

Two evenings with the Barcelona city orchestra.

Concerts Renaissances

Fauré: Ballade · Franck: Symphonic Variations

The critic called him the high point of the evening.

Recital

Concert

“Isaac Stern and Friends”: Chausson, Concert for violin, piano and string quartet

The first of three evenings of Stern's series.

“Isaac Stern and Friends”: Spohr, German Songs Op. 103

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2

Vivaldi · Bach: Concerto for two keyboards · Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 (played and directed) · Roussel: Divertissement

He conducts the Orchestre National de France.

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2

Two evenings, 24 and 25 January

The programmes survive in the Palau's archive.

Schumann: Piano Concerto

The second time he stepped in for Maurizio Pollini.

Matinee concert

Evening concert (same day as the matinee)

Weber: Euryanthe overture · Mendelssohn · Tchaikovsky

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

He replaced the ailing Sviatoslav Richter, coming from France to play Beethoven instead of the announced Mozart (3 and 7 October).

Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 459

As director and soloist.

Bach: Magnificat · Mozart: Haffner Serenade

With the Sinfonia Chorus, sixteen years before his appointment as artistic director.

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Stravinsky: Capriccio for piano and orchestra

Berliner Festwochen 1980, in a programme with Hindemith and Reimann.

Recital

McCarter Theatre Series II.

Liszt: Totentanz · also Schumann's Symphony No. 4 and Dutilleux's Timbres, espace, mouvement

Broadcast on France Musique on 2 August 1981; survives only as that INA archive tape, played once more in a 2013 retrospective.

Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 595

Carnegie Hall Schubert Festival: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen · Bartók: Contrasts

Carnegie Hall Schubert Festival: Fantasy in F minor for four hands

Carnegie Hall Schubert Festival: Piano Trio in E flat D. 929

The same evening, in the Main Hall, Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion with Joseph Kalichstein.

Carnegie Hall Schubert Festival: the “Trout” Quintet

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1

Also survives only as an INA archive tape.

Carnegie Hall Serenades: an all-Bach evening, including the Toccata in D BWV 912

That night, inside a Cleveland Quartet concert, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for piano duet with Marc Neikrug.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

Beethoven: “Moonlight” Sonata · Stravinsky: Tango and Ragtime

Recital: Beethoven, Op. 49 No. 1, Op. 2 No. 2, “Moonlight” · the fourteen Chopin waltzes

For the Unione Musicale, fourteen years before he first conducted in Turin.

Recital

Reviewed as an ideal recital.

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Concert

As director and soloist.

Recital: Schubert, Sonata D. 664 · Beethoven, “Appassionata” · Schumann, Carnaval

Semana de Música de Cámara, Memorial Rosa Sabater. The courtyard was nearly full and he added a Chopin waltz.

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2

Recital: Schubert, Sonata in A Op. 120 · Beethoven, “Appassionata”

International Piano Series, recorded by KRO radio.

Concert

As director and soloist.

Recital

Concerts Renaissances

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (televised)

Haydn: Sonata in E-flat · Beethoven: ‘Waldstein’ Sonata · Chopin: Impromptu Op. 36, Polonaise-fantaisie, Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise

Carmel Music Society.

“Il pianoforte di Beethoven”: Sonatas Opp. 49/1, 14/1, 14/2, 22 and 53

Concert

As conductor.

Recital, William Kapell Festival

The jurors of the first Kapell competition each gave a recital.

Jury member, Concours Clara Haskil

Concert

Matinee, probably a repeat of 8 January

Season finale

“El romanticisme simfònic”

Euroconcert series. He brings his English orchestra to Barcelona.

Mostly Mozart Festival

Billed as conductor and pianist; repeated on 22 January.

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

An official event of the American bicentennial of the French Revolution committee, announced in April 1989.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”

During the Melbourne summer festival he led from 1990.

Recital: Beethoven · Franck · Ravel · Debussy

Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 503 · Symphonies Nos. 23 and 40

Also in Maastricht and Sittard.

Concert

The Northern Sinfonia on tour in Florida, “with Jean-Bernard Pommier as pianist/conductor”.

Recital: Beethoven, Sonatas Nos. 24, 25 and 30 · Franck, Prélude, choral et fugue

His Paris return as the first volume of the Erato Beethoven came out.

Beethoven: Coriolan · Piano Concerto No. 1 · Symphony No. 4

He opens the orchestra's Beethoven cycle.

Schumann: Piano Concerto · Fodor: Symphony No. 2

The season opener, also in Venlo and Maastricht.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3

Autumn 1994, with Enescu's Second Symphony on the programme.

Liszt: Totentanz

Concert in the double role of pianist and conductor

His first appearances with the orchestra, repeated on 12 March; open dress rehearsal on the Sunday morning.

Beethoven: Fidelio Overture and Piano Concerto No. 1 · Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Two days after the Turin concert of 11 March 1996, on the same tour.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 · Schumann: Symphony No. 2

With the winner of the Viotti competition.

Subscription concert

He also conducted the finals of the Monte-Carlo Piano Masters in 1993, 1995 and 1997.

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G · Burrell: Clarinet Concerto (London premiere) · Schumann: Symphony No. 2

Haydn: Symphony No. 49 “La Passione” · Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 459 · Symphony K. 550

Repeated on 13 January.

Viennese New Year's Eve concert

Repeated at Bardonecchia on 1 January 1999.

Plays and conducts, with the pianist Laia Masramon

OBC season 1998–99.

Concert

Chamber recital, oboe and piano

Symphony concert, with Olga Martinova

The earliest dated evidence of his partnership with Olga Martinova.

Symphony concert

Vivaldi: Concerto for two violins RV 514

Symphony concert, with Kalina Krasteva

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

ResMusica praised his slow movement.

Tbilisi International Piano Competition, final round

Conducted the finalists; predates the site's other Tbilisi date (2015) by a decade.

60th Geneva Competition, final: Beethoven's Fourth Concerto

He conducts the concerto final.

Mozart: Concerto for three pianos K. 242

He plays and conducts.

Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 466 (Lille piano festival)

Beethoven: Consecration of the House · Piano Concerto No. 2 · Symphony No. 4

The orchestra's 60th-anniversary concert.

Jury member, 2nd Sviatoslav Richter Piano Competition

Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 2 Nos. 1–3 and Op. 7

First evening of his Beethoven cycle in the newly opened Kings Place.

Beethoven: the 32 sonatas

His second complete cycle.

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto · Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suites Nos. 1 and 2

Solo recital

A regular guest of the chamber music festival on the Volga.

Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos K. 365 (Nuits pianistiques de Moldavie–Mer Noire)

Stravinsky: Concerto in D · Britten: Simple Symphony · Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 14 K. 449

Live broadcast on Musiq'3, with the Brussels Conservatory's festival orchestra under Shirly Laub.

Saint-Saëns: Africa

Second Piano Prestige festival: the Labèque sisters with the ensemble

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 · Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Repeated the following evening.

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (Busan Maru International Music Festival, 11–15 September)

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 25, 2 and 23 “Appassionata” · Schubert: Fantasy for four hands

At Brigitte Engerer's Pianoscope festival; the four-hand Schubert with Berezovsky closed the festival.

“Hommage à Beethoven”: Piano Concerto No. 1

He plays and conducts.

Beethoven: the 32 sonatas

Another complete cycle.

Beethoven: the 32 sonatas in eight recitals

Broadcast by RTBF.

Concerto with Idil Biret

Festival Piano aux Franciscains

A trio with the cellist Natalia Gutman, in his home town.

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Festival Piano aux Franciscains.

Beethoven sonata series (four evenings, September–October)

During his years as principal piano teacher at Codarts.

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 1, 18 and 29 ‘Hammerklavier’

Fourth of the eight Flagey recitals; Musiq'3 recorded the cycle but never broadcast it.

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 8 ‘Pathétique’, 12, 25 and 28

From the same unbroadcast Flagey cycle.

Mozart and Schumann

Piano and string quartet.

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 (Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music)

Mozart: Concerto for two pianos · Staynov–Chuchkov: Rachenitsa

Date confirmed by the Sofia Philharmonic's own artist archive.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 · Martinček: Symphony No. 4

He plays the concerto and conducts the symphony.

Martinček van Grob: Symphony No. 4 “In memoriam M. R. Štefánik” (Bratislava Music Festival)

Two days after the first performance in Žilina.

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2

Final round of the Tbilisi International Piano Competition: Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Piano trios: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Ravel

Two evenings, 7 and 8 January.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (opening concert, İzmir Piano Festival)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 2, 17 “Tempest”, 10 and 26 “Les Adieux”

Second evening of the Gaveau cycle.

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 8 “Pathétique”, 12, 25 and 28

Third evening.

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 5, 11, 19, 20 and 23 “Appassionata”

Fourth evening.

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 13, 7, 27 and 21 “Waldstein”

Fifth evening, called “a lesson in music” by Concertclassic.

“Colette et la musique”: readings with piano

Bellamy reads Colette; Pommier answers at the piano. The concert was his idea.

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 15 “Pastorale”, 3, 24 and 30

Sixth evening.

Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 16, 14 “Moonlight”, 6 and 31

Seventh evening.

Four Beethoven sonatas

At the festival's tenth anniversary.

Schumann: Piano Quintet Op. 44

Two days after the Ravel and Franck concert.

"French Spirit": Saint-Saëns, Debussy's La Mer, Goleminov, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations

With the cellist Henri Demarquette.

Recording of Emmanuel Hieaux's Entre tes mains, symphony for string orchestra (AMA label)

Beethoven: Sonatas

Beethoven: Triple Concerto · Lalo: Symphonie espagnole (Martenski muzikalni dni)

The Sofia Philharmonic on tour two days before the Sofia concert.

Beethoven: Triple Concerto · Lalo: Symphonie espagnole

InterHarmony International Music Festival

Chamber music concert.

Recital with cello, InterHarmony

With the cellist Misha Quint.

Solo recital

Festival de Villevieille, in the courtyard of the château.

Bach: Concertos for one, two, three and four pianos

Sixth Festival Piano Prestige, on instruments of the Fondation René Portes.

“Colette et la musique”

Chamber concert

Takemitsu: Riverrun · Schumann: Introduction and Allegro Op. 134 · Dvořák: Symphony No. 6

Mendelssohn, Mozart, Dvořák

In Casals's birthplace, at the festival that bears his name.

“Destiny and Media”

“Douce France”: Beethoven, Sonatas Nos. 25, 26 and 23 “Appassionata”

Date and title confirmed by the Sofia Philharmonic's own artist archive.

Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream · Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor · Italian Symphony

7th Festival Piano Prestige, which he directed. Vivaldi followed on 10 October.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

He conducted the same programme that afternoon for the schools, at the Centre François Mitterrand.

Turina: Escenas andaluzas · Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence · Brahms: Piano Quintet

7th Festival Piano Prestige.

Emmanuel Hieaux: Impressions Nocturnes (recording)

“Colette et la musique”, concert with readings

Grands Interprètes series.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 · Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony

With his former student as soloist.

Mozart: Violin Sonata K. 380 · Tournier: Au matin · Hasselmans: La source · Beethoven: Variations on a theme from The Magic Flute · Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2

Eighth Festival Piano Prestige.

Bach and Mozart

Eighth Festival Piano Prestige.

Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus overture · Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Zabaleta's harp transcription · Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

Eighth Festival Piano Prestige.

Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus overture · Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Zabaleta's harp transcription · Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

On tour through the Hérault with his 32 young musicians.

Musikè, 32 young musicians from across Europe

The ensemble he founded.

Final of the Young Pianist Foundation competition: Chopin, Franck, Thomas Beijer

He conducts the concerto final.

Schumann: Piano Concerto

Recital, 36th Ankara International Music Festival

Beethoven: Cello Sonata Op. 102 No. 1 · Franck: Violin Sonata · Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1

9th Festival Piano Prestige.

Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik · Haydn: Piano Concerto in D · Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings

9th Festival Piano Prestige, with David Lively as piano soloist.

Haydn · Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8 · Chausson: Concert

First of four Piano Prestige dates across the Hérault (Nébian, Bédarieux, Bayssan followed).

Debussy: Cello Sonata (recorded)

Schumann: Piano Quintet Op. 44 · Schubert: “Trout” Quintet D. 667

Tenth Festival Piano Prestige.

Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 466 · Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”

10th Festival Piano Prestige; he played and conducted the concerto from the keyboard.

“Happy Birthday Marielle Nordmann!”

La Musicale de Williencourt series.

“Happy Birthday Marielle Nordmann!”

Second of three galas for the harpist's 80th birthday; the site had only the first, 15 Dec 2020.

Beethoven, Schulhoff, Brahms

Chamber music in the hall of the École Normale, where he taught.

Schubert, Mendelssohn, Beethoven

Guest of the harpist Marielle Nordmann.

Closing concert of a week of masterclasses

Rossini: La cambiale di matrimonio (staged, director Tito Celestino da Costa)

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3, 5 and 2

11th Festival Piano Prestige. The next day, Tchaikovsky's Trio with Olga Martinova and Boris Baraz.

“A great pianist and young talents”

Sharing the stage with young pianists.

Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, Sonatas K. 331, 332, 457

Part of a Mozart sonata series for Marseille Concerts.

Schubert mal anders

For the Vienna Piano School, Verein Pro Arte.

Mendelssohn: Octet · Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

12th Festival Piano Prestige.

Mozart: variations and sonata

A shared Mozart programme with his former student.

Chamber concert: cello, violin and piano (sources disagree on the exact composers)

12th Festival Piano Prestige; a fourth date the site was missing alongside 22, 24 and 28 November.

Beethoven: three violin sonatas

12th Festival Piano Prestige.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 · Haydn: Symphony No. 1

13th Festival Piano Prestige, with Philippe Cassard as soloist.

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons · Mozart: Piano Concerto K. 449

He played and conducted Mozart from the keyboard.