Lucas Debargue & Kristof Barati

Barati & Debargue perform Debussy, Brahms & Franck

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Artist: Lucas Debargue & Kristof Barati - Soloist: Lucas Debargue & Kristof Barati - Composer: César Franck, Johannes Brahms & Claude Debussy
Verbier Festival, Switzerland | 77 min | 2018 | TV-G

Barati & Debargue perform Debussy, Brahms & Franck

Violinist Kristof Barati and Pianist Lucas Debargue pair for the first time in a duo concert at the 25th anniversary edition of the Swiss Verbier Festival in 2018. Although this was their inaugural collaboration, the two young artists found a perfect understanding around this romantic programme. The two featured works were written very few years apart from one another (Brahms’ first sonata for violin and piano in 1879 and Franck’s sonata in A in 1886). The Brahms sonata was recorded by Kristof Barati a few years ago, while Franck’s is known to be a favourite of Lucas Debargue. The virtuoso piano part suits his gigantic hands and the fantasy of the third movement his love for improvisation. The cyclic form and the many echoes between the piano and violin parts unite the two artists, like accomplices in possession of the best assets to bring in all the emotion these romantic works have to offer. The listener is suddenly in a position to re-discover the scores and cannot but join the admiration marks that escape from the audience in between the movements. A very moving performance which deserves its benchmark status.

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