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Cultured. On Sunday 03.05.26

The weekend letter returns to the tribute, with memories from the Northern Sinfonia's Ron Thorndycraft.

Jean-Bernard put in 35 years of high quality musical contribution to this region of which he'd become truly fond.

Pianist and conductor Jean-Bernard Pommier (1944 - 2026) remembered

Sam Wonfor remembers 35 years with the Northern Sinfonia, and the night he played and conducted a concerto when the soloist dropped out.

So, we play together…

In appreciation: Jean-Bernard Pommier

Ben Hogwood's tribute through the recordings: the Mozart and Beethoven cycles, Brahms with Jaime Laredo, Mozart with Sinfonia Varsovia.

French Pianist Jean-Bernard Pommier has Died, Aged 81

Obituary: his early start, Moscow at seventeen, and the long collaboration with Karajan.

Hommage à Jean-Bernard Pommier

The town's tribute, with a video, to the founder of the Festival Piano Prestige.

Jean-Bernard Pommier, pianiste français à la carrière internationale, est mort

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it. (by Marie-Aude Roux)

Hommage au pianiste Jean-Bernard Pommier (1944-2026)

An 89-minute radio tribute by Philippe Cassard through his recordings.

Décès de Jean-Bernard Pommier, pianiste et chef d'orchestre

Obituary recalling Sancan, Berlin, Moscow, Karajan, Stern, Rostropovich, Newcastle, Turin and Menton.

Il laisse aux mélomanes une abondante discographie rythmée par les noms de Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Poulenc

Disparition du pianiste et chef d'orchestre Jean-Bernard Pommier

Pierre Jean Tribot's obituary: a full career, from lessons at four to his residency in Sofia.

musicien accompli, fidèle à son Béziers natal

Les morts oubliés

The former head of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande remembers him and asks Warner to reissue his recordings.

French pianist Jean-Bernard Pommier has died at the age of 81

Death notice in the Luxembourg music magazine.

Mort du grand pianiste et chef d'orchestre Jean-Bernard Pommier

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it. (by Philippe Gault)

Leading French pianist dies, 81

Norman Lebrecht's death notice: from Karajan and Boulez to Newcastle, Turin and Sofia.

Mort du grand pianiste et chef d'orchestre Jean-Bernard Pommier

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it. (by Louis-Valentin Lopez)

Jean-Bernard Pommier est mort : le pianiste prodige de Béziers, lauréat du Concours Tchaïkovski à 17 ans, s'éteint à 81 ans après une longue maladie

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it.

Muere el prestigioso pianista y director de orquesta francés Jean-Bernard Pommier

Obituary in the Spanish classical music magazine.

Herbert von Karajan Live in Berlin, 1970–1979

John Quinn singles out his 1974 Mozart K. 488 with Karajan in the new box.

Pommier matches that elegance; he plays with a light touch, yet there is ample body to his tone.

Festival Piano Prestige

Preview of the 13th festival he founded, with historic pianos from the René Portes foundation; about 1,000 listeners the year before.

Dublin International Piano Competition 2025: 'As a jury member, I feel terrible for those poor kids playing in front of us'

Michel Béroff, a fellow Sancan pupil, remembers Pommier in Moscow in 1962.

He didn't get the first prize, but Khrushchev liked very much his Mozart and Shchedrin and gave him a kiss.

Pasen op TV Dordrecht: Johannes-Passion en Experience Klassiek

Local TV broadcasts his Beethoven evening with Olga Martinova at the Kunstkerk.

Liefhebbers in een goede bezette Kunstkerk genoten vorige week zondag van sonates van Beethoven

Marseille-Concerts : le franc Mozart de Jean-Bernard Pommier

Philippe Gueit on an hour of Mozart without interval, for Mozart's birthday, at the Opéra de Marseille.

Jean-Bernard Pommier

An all-Mozart recital at the Opéra de Marseille, part of a Mozart sonata series.

Pierre Sancan, 15 ans

Michelle Debra names Pommier among the great French pianists Sancan trained.

Il a formé les plus grands pianistes français de la fin du xxe siècle

Décès du pianiste Pedro Carboné

The Spanish pianist rebuilt his technique with Pommier.

l'a aidé à obtenir une sonorité plus profonde et plus pénétrante

Vienna: Masterclasses with Jean-Bernard Pommier & Olga Martinova

A week of violin and piano masterclasses in Vienna, ending with a concert at the Mozarthaus.

De maître à élève

Recalling the 1960 Berlin competition: in the over-fifteens he took first prize, ahead of Maria João Pires.

Chez les plus de 15 ans, Jean-Bernard Pommier gagne le premier prix, devant Maria João Pirès !

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, un pianiste plein de projets

Bavouzet names Pommier as the French pianist who brought Bartók's Second Concerto to French stages.

jusqu'à ce que Jean-Bernard Pommier puisse jouer en France le 2ème Concerto de Bartók

Jean-Bernard Pommier

In the "Beethoven Ultime" programme in Brittany, 2020 and 2021.

POMMIER Jean-Bernard (page professeur)

The school's own biography of him as a teacher, recovered from the Internet Archive: Yves Nat and Eugène Bigot at the Conservatoire, Istomin in New York, and the founding of Musikè in 2011.

Le jury, présidé par Emile Guilels, lui décerne le premier Diplôme d'honneur avec ses félicitations.

Qui sont les six directeurs qui se sont succédés de 1950 à 1998 au Festival de musique de Menton ?

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it. (by André Peyrègne)

Элисо Вирсаладзе: «Для Нейгауза уроки никогда не были средством подготовки к конкурсам»

Eliso Virsaladze, third prize in Moscow in 1962, remembers the competition and names Pommier as more interesting than some prize-winners.

Жан-Бернар Помье, получивший лишь диплом, был гораздо интереснее.

36ème Festival de musique d'Ankara : Jean-Bernard Pommier

A solo recital at the Ankara International Music Festival.

Ensemble International Musikè

The Musikè ensemble he founded: 32 young professionals from across Europe.

Ensemble international Musiké

The Musikè ensemble he founded, in concert.

L'ensemble international Musikè, fondé par Jean-Bernard Pommier, réunit les meilleurs jeunes musiciens internationaux

Жан-Бернар Помие и Инеке Хелингман

He conducts Rachmaninov's First Concerto and the Pastoral Symphony.

Le très grand pianiste Jean-Bernard Pommier dans un concert-lecture d'Olivier Bellamy

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El Vendrell acogerá un Festival musical más próximo a Casals

He plays at the Pau Casals Festival in El Vendrell, Casals's birthplace, with Camerata XXI.

El día 22 el pianista Jean-Bernard Pommier y la Camerata XXI tocarán temas de Mendelssohn, Mozart y Dvorak.

Jean Bernard Pommier, l'excellence à l'état pur.

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it.

Жан-Бернар Помие

Preview of a Beethoven recital in Sofia.

Духът на Бетовен се е вселил в него

Le Théâtre des Franciscains, un site privilégié pour la création artistique

History of the Béziers theatre: Pommier succeeded Jérôme Savary as director and created a resident ensemble.

Рахманинов

He plays and conducts Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Svetlin Roussev and Atanas Krastev.

"Френски дух" - Жан-Бернар Помие и Анри Дьомаркет

"French Spirit": he conducts La Mer and Saint-Saëns, with Henri Demarquette.

Епохи – Жан-Бернар Помие

He plays and conducts Ravel's G major Concerto in Sofia, 52 years after his first performance of it there.

From Russia with Passion: Portrait of Olga Martinova

Olga Martinova talks about her life and her long musical partnership with Pommier.

We spent hours and hours playing together and yes, talking about music endlessly.

Обыкновенное чудо над Волгой

At the Persona festival in Togliatti on the Volga, "an old friend of the festival" plays four Beethoven sonatas.

Вырвался на юбилей давний друг «Персоны» французский пианист Жан-Бернар Помье.

Jean-Bernard Pommier en concert le 15 et le 19 juin à la Salle Gaveau

Michel Jakubowicz on the last two evenings of the Gaveau cycle.

Un incroyable parcours commencé le 2 mars 2015 Salle Gaveau par un pianiste aux moyens impressionnants

Le dernier concert de l'intégrale des sonates pour piano de Beethoven par Jean-Bernard Pommier

The final evening, 19 June 2015, ending with Op. 111.

c'est donc la troisième fois qu'il s'adonne à cette aventure, un privilège réservé à une poignée de pianistes

Les Sonates de Beethoven par Jean-Bernard Pommier à Gaveau – Leçon de musique

Alain Cochard on the fifth Gaveau evening.

Un grand moment de piano certes, mais d'abord une grande leçon de musique

Jean-Bernard Pommier, habité par Beethoven

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it. (by Marie-Aude Roux)

Concert : Jean-Bernard Pommier à la Salle Gaveau

A listener's review of unshowy playing, entirely at the service of the score.

On apprécie cette simplicité du jeu, accessible, apaisante

Intégrale des Sonates pour piano de Beethoven par Jean-Bernard Pommier (2) à Gaveau – Vers l'essentiel

Alain Cochard praises his classical restraint and refined palette.

une sacrée leçon de musique

Leonard Rose (timeline)

The Strad's Leonard Rose timeline: his last commercial recording, in 1982, was the Brahms sonatas with Pommier.

Final commercial recording - Brahms sonatas with Jean-Bernard Pommier

Les 32 Sonates de Beethoven – Les choix de Jean-Bernard Pommier

Claude Samuel on the opening of the Gaveau cycle and its Hammerklavier.

Pommier y est parfaitement parvenu

Intégrale des Sonates pour piano de Beethoven par Jean-Bernard Pommier (1) – Magistrale entrée en matière

Michel Le Naour on the opening of the Gaveau cycle, ending with the Hammerklavier.

une liberté d'agogique, une clarté, une élégance et un puissant sens des contrastes

ポミエのベートーベン ピアノ・ソナタ全集

Kentaro Azuma praises the vitality and flow of his Beethoven cycle.

初期の方はもぎたてのレモンみたいにさわやかであり

Concert: Western Classical music

Two trio evenings in Mumbai with Philippe Graffin and Henri Demarquette.

Jean-Bernard Pommier is considered one of the most important French pianists of his generation.

Jean-Bernard Pommier - L'intégrale des sonates de Beethoven en huit concerts

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it.

Trente ans d'art lyrique au Théâtre des Arènes de Béziers

Mentions him as director of the Théâtre des Franciscains in Béziers since 2011.

l'éminent pianiste et chef d'orchestre Jean-Bernard Pommier

Duo Harpian (compte-rendu d'Edith Weber)

A record review that quotes his own definition of sincerity as the artist's essential obligation.

avec la seule recherche de la sincérité qui est une des obligations essentielles de l'artiste

Récital de piano de Jean-Bernard Pommier: Beethoven

Belgian radio broadcasts an evening from his eight-concert Beethoven cycle at Flagey in Brussels.

Une intégrale portée avec brio et inspiration par le grand pianiste français Jean-Bernard Pommier

Jean-Bernard Pommier, een impressie

A reporter watches him teach at Codarts, then talks with him about attention, love and respect in music.

De liefde maakt alles goed. Maar vergeet niet dat liefde altijd begint met respect.

Pommier speelt pianosonates van Beethoven

Announces his Beethoven series at Pro Rege in Rotterdam and his appointment as principal piano teacher at Codarts in 2011.

Festival piano aux Franciscains

The 2013 festival in Béziers, with a trio of Pommier, Olga Martinova and Natalia Gutman.

L'ensemble Béziers Musikè en Languedoc, présidé par le talentueux pianiste Jean-Bernard Pommier

ベートーヴェン：ピアノ・ソナタ全集/ジャン=ベルナール・ポミエ

A Japanese listener on the care given to every note of his Beethoven.

一音一音がとてもうつくしい。

Jean-Bernard Pommier - Flagey

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it.

Pianoscope à Beauvais : le Testament de Brigitte Engerer

Victoria Okada on his Beethoven at the last Pianoscope programmed by Brigitte Engerer.

sa rigueur horlogère et son dynamisme hors du commun sont stupéfiants

Théâtre : Gustave Fayet, industriel, architecte, vigneron, musicien, peintre, mécène et collectionneur !

A theatre piece on the Béziers patron Gustave Fayet, with Pommier at the piano, at the Franciscains.

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos; Aubade; Sinfonietta

Four stars for his Poulenc with Anne Queffélec and Richard Hickox.

Pommier and Queffélec have the spirit of this music in their veins

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos; Piano Concerto; Aubade

Anthony Burton compares a newer Poulenc disc with Pommier's.

Jean-Bernard Pommier (with Richard Hickox, and Anne Queffélec in the Double Concerto) brings out Poulenc's more sombre qualities

Hörtest – Durch das Hochgebirge: Die Klaviersonaten von Ludwig van Beethoven

A German survey of Beethoven sonata recordings calls his versions "remarkably beautiful".

die ausgesprochen schönen Versionen von Oppitz, O'Conor und Pommier

В Тольятти пройдет VI Фестиваль камерной музыки

The Togliatti chamber music festival announces a solo recital by Pommier.

Musikè-Durham: artists, faculty and complete list of works, 2000-2009

The academy's own record of its Durham decade: the faculty year by year, from Maurice Bourgue and Bruno Pasquier to Olga Martinova, and every work played, from the six Brandenburgs he directed in 2001 to the last concerts of August 2009.

Schumann: Kinderszenen, Arabesque, Variations Abegg, Papillons, Novelettes

Four stars for the reissue of his Schumann.

Pommier's coolly objective approach is admirably suited to the Novelletten and the early Abegg Variations.

Happy birthday times two

The Chicago Symphony archivist on his debut with the orchestra under Riccardo Muti at Ravinia, 28 July 1973.

Маэстро Жан-Бернар Помье дал концерт в Москве

He plays and conducts in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the hall of the 1962 competition.

Его первым педагогом по музыке была русская пианистка

Жан-Бернар Помье дал концерт в Москве

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it.

Jean-Bernard Pommier plays Debussy

On the reissue of his Debussy.

The highlight is a wonderfully droll La plus que lente.

Jean-Bernard Pommier (Mozart Piano Sonata K570)

A listener on his measured tempi in Mozart.

As a result, I hear things in the music that are new and novel for me.

Beethoven: Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano). Hall One, Kings Place, London

Mark Berry on the first evening of his Beethoven cycle at the new Kings Place.

There was real Beethovenian character here: humour and vehemence from the opening bars.

Бюллетень Конкурса им. Рихтера №6

As a juror at the Richter Competition in Moscow, he turns to hush a restless audience.

Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. Concert « 60 ans » : Beethoven

He leads the Nice Philharmonic's 60th-anniversary concert from the keyboard.

Jean-Bernard Pommier (Piano) - Short Biography

A reference biography compiled in 2007 from his agency material and updated in June 2026.

Alexandre Kobrin, Cédric Tiberghien, les Pianos du Nouveau Siècle

He conducts the Orchestre National de Lille in Mozart at the Lille piano festival.

ポミエのベートーヴェンのソナタ全集

A Japanese listener's five-star recommendation of the Beethoven cycle.

60ème Concours de Genève, encore un palmarès contestable

He conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in the Geneva Competition final.

J.B. Pommier et le Vlaams Radio Orkest

Ravel's G major Concerto in Brussels with Yoel Levi; the critic singles out his slow movement.

Pollini Beethoven

Colin Anderson on his regard for Pommier's Erato Beethoven.

I have a particular regard for Jean-Bernard Pommier in this music, on Erato

Serge Prokoviev ou Pierre le Grand

His Peter and the Wolf with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana.

Le chef dispense une leçon de style tonique

Les pianos anciens de Jean-Claude Gisclard

He nearly recorded a complete Fauré on the historic pianos of his friend Jean-Claude Gisclard's château in the Languedoc; the project was abandoned.

BBC Proms: Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Jean-Bernard Pommier (listings)

5 August 1998: he brings the Northern Sinfonia to the BBC Proms, playing and directing Chopin's First Concerto, with Mozart's 40th and a Casken London premiere.

Pommier, la vera anima di Brahms

The Lingotto concert that closed the Filarmonica di Torino's season, taken over from Giulini: a full hall, endless applause, and the news that he would become music director.

Pommier, la vera anima di Brahms

Torino, paura al Regio: sostituito da Pommier

Giulini is taken ill rehearsing Brahms's First with the Filarmonica di Torino; Pommier takes over the concert at the Lingotto.

Direttore Pommier, al pianoforte Eun Joo Chung

Conducting the Viotti competition winner in Brahms's First Concerto: under him, the orchestra always seems to find a particular energy and cohesion.

L'Orchestra, dalla guida di Pommier, sembra sempre trarre un'energia e una coesione particolari.

Pommier, l'allievo dirige il maestro

In Turin, January 1997, he conducts his teacher Eugene Istomin in Mozart's K. 467 with the Filarmonica di Torino: 'the pupil conducts the master'.

Pommier, l'allievo dirige il maestro

OFT: Giulini e gli altri « grandi »

The self-governing Filarmonica di Torino let its players judge the conductors; their two favourites were Giulini and Pommier, 'a true revelation on the podium'.

vera rivelazione sul podio, allievo di Eugene Istomin

Évian : un orchestre de jeunes et leurs aînés

At Marta Istomin's request he builds a youth orchestra for the Évian festival in which he and his friends, Bourgue and Pasquier among them, play side by side with eighty students: the seed of Musikè.

Chacun doit contribuer au résultat final. C'est la marque d'un grand orchestre

Lawrence Foster Interview with Bruce Duffie

Lawrence Foster mentions Beethoven's Third with Pommier and the Chicago Symphony.

Comings and Goings: BBC Young Musician masterclasses

A televised BBC Young Musician of the Year masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music, in a series with Lynn Harrell and Evelyn Glennie.

Monte-Carlo Piano Masters (finale)

He conducts the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic in the final of the Monte-Carlo Piano Masters, as again in 1995 and 1997.

Grieg, Strauss, Franck : Dalberto, Philharmonia, Pommier (Denon)

Alain Lompech on the Denon record with Dalberto: one of the most musicianly pianists of the day, now revealed as a conductor in his own right.

l'un des pianistes les plus musiciens du jour et que l'on découvre chef de plein droit

Beethoven, Franck : Jean-Bernard Pommier (Conservatoire d'art dramatique)

His Paris 'rentrée' as the Erato Beethoven cycle begins: one of the rare French pianists at home with the great orchestras, and one whose colleagues always come to listen.

Ses confrères assistent toujours en nombre à ses concerts. C'est un signe.

The Society of the Four Arts 1936 to 1996: season 1990-1991

The Northern Sinfonia of England in Palm Beach, Florida, in January 1991, with Pommier as pianist and conductor.

L'eau vive de Fontfroide

Le Monde at Fontfroide: the abbey's concerts, run since 1967 by Nicolas d'Andoque and the Friends of Fontfroide with Pommier.

« Piano aux Jacobins » 1989 : 10e anniversaire

For the festival's tenth anniversary he shares the five Beethoven concertos with Alicia de Larrocha, Maria João Pires and Sergio-Daniel Tiempo, under Michael Stern.

Mostly Mozart Festival (listings)

Conductor and pianist with the San Francisco Symphony in its Mostly Mozart festival at Davies Symphony Hall, January 1989.

Pommier speelt met klanken emoties

A recital in which he made Beethoven's Op. 14 and Schumann's Kreisleriana answer one another.

Sasha: A Musician's Life

Alexander Schneider remembers playing sonatas with Istomin and Pommier at Château de Reux in Normandy and at Les Treilles in the Var, and lists him among the Casals Festival soloists.

Stralend seizoensslot LSO

Conductor and soloist at once for the Limburg orchestra's season finale, directing Mozart's K. 467 from the keyboard.

de welhaast ideale vorm van musiceren

Summer Programs 1986: William Kapell festival recitals

At the first Kapell competition in Maryland the jurors each gave a recital: Ax, then Pommier on 16 July 1986, then Orozco and Kuerti.

Pianist Pommier dirigeert integer bij het R'dams Phil.

Conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic's Beethoven cycle: quiet, purposeful, after warmth, cantabile and precision.

Exhibitionisme is hem ten enenmale vreemd.

Liszt: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Rezension)

A German record critic names him, with Casadesus and Ciccolini, as a model of French 'clarté' at the piano.

jener Clarté, die untrennbar mit den Namen von Casadesus, Ciccolini oder Pommier verbunden ist

Pommier: virtuoos, sterk in het lyrische

Stepping in for Ingrid Haebler at the 400th concert of the Groningen music society: Schubert, the Appassionata and Schumann's Carnaval before 550 listeners.

virtuoos, sterk in het lyrische

Chronique musicale de l'année 1985

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it.

Jean Bernard Pommier

A Concertgebouw recital in the International Piano Series, recorded for broadcast by KRO radio.

Un auténtico maestro del piano, Jean Bernard Pommier, ofreció anoche un gran concierto

A night recital in the courtyard of the Alcázar of Segovia: Schubert, the Appassionata and Carnaval; a touch 'almost comparable to Cortot's'.

dar la obra como si fuera nueva

Ideaal recital in Concertgebouw: fenomenale techniek van pianist Pommier

A Debussy, Ravel and Brahms recital in the Concertgebouw's main hall; the critic notes that he would not court applause, and that his only way of communicating was the music itself.

Zijn enige manier om te communiceren is via de muziek zelf.

Concerto Isaac Stern / Jean-Bernard Pommier

La Scala archive photograph of his recital with Isaac Stern.

Carnegie Hall Serenades (Performance History, 3-10 June 1982)

A week of Carnegie Hall Serenades: Bach with Cho-Liang Lin, the Rite of Spring for piano duet with the Cleveland Quartet's evening, Beethoven's Fourth Concerto with Zukerman and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the 'Hammerklavier' in the Main Hall.

Carnegie Hall Schubert Festival (Performance History, 7-11 June 1981)

Five concerts in five days at Carnegie Hall's Schubert festival, from Der Hirt auf dem Felsen to Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and the 'Trout' with Stern, Zukerman and Rose.

McCarter Theatre Series II: Jean-Bernard Pommier, pianist

A recital in Princeton's McCarter Theatre series, in a season with I Musici, the Emerson and the Tokyo quartets.

Orchestre national de France, dir. J.-B. Pommier, avec Eugene Istomin (Brahms)

5 March 1980, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées: he conducts the Orchestre National de France with Istomin in Brahms's Second Concerto, live on France Musique.

London concert diary: Northern Sinfonia, conductor Pommier (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 28 March 1980)

London diaries of 1980-85: the Northern Sinfonia and Chorus under him in Bach's Magnificat, Ravel with Kondrashin and the LPO, the ECO, the Hallé, the BBC Symphony and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta.

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: concerto diretto da Riccardo Muti

Florence, October 1979: he replaces the ill Sviatoslav Richter with Riccardo Muti and the Maggio Musicale orchestra, in Beethoven's First Concerto.

Performance History, 1978–79 season

Saint-Saëns's Second Concerto with Zubin Mehta, three evenings at Avery Fisher Hall.

Chicago Symphony 1977-78 season preview

Announced for the Chicago Symphony's 1977-78 season: Bartók's First Concerto under Daniel Barenboim.

M. Barre au cycle Beethoven

During the 1977 Beethoven cycle with Barenboim and the Orchestre de Paris, in which he played all five concertos, Prime Minister Raymond Barre praised the Mozartian accents of his First Concerto.

Le pianiste Jean-Bernard Pommier a su rendre les accents mozartiens du 1er Concerto

Jean-Bernard Pommier vervangt Pollini magnifiek

He steps in for the ill Maurizio Pollini with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and plays Mozart's K. 467 instead.

vervangt Pollini magnifiek

Isaac Stern and Friends (Performance History, 10, 11 and 13 September 1976)

Three evenings of Isaac Stern's 'Stern and Friends' at Carnegie Hall: Chausson's Concert, the 'Trout' with Stern, Zukerman and Rose, and Schubert's F minor Fantasy with the young Yefim Bronfman.

Jean Pommier onstuimig pianist

With the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Roberto Benzi in Fauré's Ballade and Franck's Symphonic Variations: the critic calls him the high point of the evening.

subliem en uiterst klankvol klavierspel

Festivals : le Northern Sinfonia dirigé par Jean-Bernard Pommier à Prades

August 1975: his first concert with the Northern Sinfonia is the closing concert of the Prades festival, where he had played for Casals's circle as a child.

Daniel Barenboïm et l'Orchestre de Paris

Bartók's First Concerto with Barenboim and the Orchestre de Paris: no longer a promise, the critic writes, but a well-deserved consecration.

moins une révélation qu'une consécration largement méritée

Duke Artists Series: Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Bernard Pommier

With the Strasbourg Philharmonic at Duke in March 1975, back for a recital that November; the programme recalls Salzburg 1971 and 1972, the 1973 Casals Festival and the orchestras of Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh.

Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra (Performance History)

His first Carnegie Hall appearance on record: Saint-Saëns's Second Concerto with the Strasbourg Philharmonic under Alain Lombard, presented by Sol Hurok.

Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra (announcement)

Soloist of the Strasbourg Philharmonic on its first American tour under Alain Lombard: Columbia, South Carolina, 5 March 1975.

St. Louis Symphony concert, 3 October 1974 (club notes)

Guest soloist with the St. Louis Symphony at Powell Hall on 3 October 1974.

« Osterfestspiele » voor AVRO-radio

Dutch radio broadcasts the Salzburg Easter Festival: he plays Beethoven's Third Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan.

Solist is de pianist Jean Bernard Pommier

Israëlisch Philharmonisch orkest in Nederland

During the Yom Kippur War he stayed in Israel playing for soldiers and in hospitals with the Israel Philharmonic, alongside Mehta, Stern, Zukerman and Barenboim.

Deze laatste was er niet toe te bewegen Israel te verlaten zolang hij zich in het beoorlogde land nuttig kon maken

Concerto diretto da Nino Sanzogno, pianista Jean-Bernard Pommier

RAI broadcasts his Naples concert of 16 March 1973: Mozart's 'Coronation' Concerto with Nino Sanzogno.

Place aux jeunes : Jean-Bernard Pommier

A 1971 record column welcomes his Debussy recital in the 'Moment musical' series and recalls his Moscow diploma of honour.

Un vrai feu d'artifice

Souvenirs à deux voix, de Maxime Jacob à Dom Clément Jacob

Behind a paywall or not accessible to us: title only, we have not read it. (by Maxime Jacob)

Russisch dagboek van Theo Olof (2)

The violinist Theo Olof's Soviet diary records meeting the young French pianist Pommier in a Leningrad hotel.

Ontmoet in hotel jonge Franse pianist Pommier

Большой зал консерватории: пианист Жан Бернар Помье (Франция)

A recital in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in February 1967: Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin, Ravel.

Tsjaikovski: Grote Sonate; Doumka (HMV FALP 861)

A Dutch radio magazine welcomes his Tchaikovsky Grande Sonate record: the playing of the 1962 Moscow prize-winner is 'fabulous'.

is fabuleus, geweldig

« Zoon, je hebt ons hart veroverd » : Chroestsjev omhelsde jonge Franse pianist

A Paris profile of the eighteen-year-old after Moscow: his organist father in Béziers, his first teacher Madame Koslov, his Salle Pleyel debut, and the piano he played in a Montmartre bistro.

Uw vertolking van Mozart heeft mijn hart geraakt.

II Международный конкурс имени Чайковского (репортаж)

Pravda's competition report introduces the youngest competitor, seventeen, already twice a first-prize winner, playing the same evening as John Ogdon.

Самый юный из конкурсантов — 17-летний Ж. Помье

Royaume de la musique (Palmarès 1953)

The prize list of the 1953 national radio competition: at nine he takes a premier accessit in the piano class for ages 8 to 10.

Premiers accessits : … Jean-Bernard Pommier (Béziers)

Séance publique annuelle : présentation du jeune prodige Jean-Bernard Pommier

His own town's learned society presents the nine-year-old for the first time; he plays Mozart with his uncle, the flautist M. Roquefort.

La salle vibre d'enthousiasme devant la maîtrise du jeune Pommier

La vie au royaume de la musique

He is one of five children billed for the radio tournament of 19 November 1953, and one of four from the Midi.

Jean-Bernard Pommier, de Béziers

Petites Étoiles à tous les firmaments (grille RTF)

RTF listings for a programme of child prodigies: Pommier, aged eight, plays Bach preludes on the organ for Montpellier.

Montpellier : Jean-Bernard Pommier (8 ans) : à l'orgue : Préludes (J.-S. Bach)

La vie du royaume de la musique

The RTF radio tournament 'Le Royaume de la musique': on 3 April 1952 the seven-year-old Pommier represents Béziers.

Jean-Bernard Pommier et Pierre Jamel, qui eux, représenteront Béziers

Помье Жан-Бернар

A Russian profile of his twenty years of tours in the Soviet Union.

Jean-Bernard Pommier (Great Musical Collaborations)

The story of forty years of friendship with Istomin, in both men's words.

It was not a master-student relationship, but an on-going dialogue between colleagues.

Jean-Bernard Pommier

Encyclopedia entry: training, prizes, his turn to conducting in the early 1980s, the Melbourne Summer Festival from 1990.

Jean-Bernard Pommier

The festival's artist page, from his years as artistic director.

le jury, présidé par Emile Guilels, lui décerne le Premier Diplôme d'Honneur avec ses félicitations.

Spotlight Beethoven: The solo concertos

Pommier among Karajan's soloists in Beethoven's Third Concerto.

such excellent Beethoven interpreters as Eduard Erdmann, Edwin Fischer, Hans Richter-Haaser, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Emil Gilels

Brahms: Violin Sonatas; Cello Sonatas

Mike D. Brownell on the Brahms sonatas with Laredo and Rose.

a keen sense of balance and pacing that matches both instruments nicely.

Jean-Bernard Pommier (artist page)

The orchestra's biography: also Visiting Fellow of St Chad's College, Durham.

Jean-Bernard Pommier

French profile page.

Jean-Bernard Pommier en concert

Eleven Paris concerts, 2015 to 2022.

Жан-Бернар Помье: все публикации

All the Russian site's articles about him.

Review – Karajan: Live in Berlin 1970-1979

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Poulenc – works for piano & orchestra

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Un Grand virtuose du piano : le Cazoulin Jean-Bernard Pommier

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Biographie : Jean-Bernard Pommier

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Jean-Bernard Pommier - Artistes

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Помье Жан-Бернар

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Консерваторию посетил французский пианист и дирижер Ж.-Б. Помье

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Pommier, Jean-Bernard

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Jean-Bernard Pommier (notice 23044)

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