Raphaël Pichon
Born: 17th October 1984, France
Nationality: French
The French conductor and countertenor Raphaël Pichon was born in Paris in 1984 and was a boy chorister at Versailles before studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he formed Ensemble Pygmalion in 2006. Their debut recording of Missae Breves by JS Bach was released on Alpha in 2008, and won praise from Gramophone for Pichon’s ‘warmth and an unusual sensitivity to the periodic structure of each movement’; their discography also includes the Mass in B Minor (‘a Bach project of the highest calibre’ – Gramophone), Rameau’s Dardanus and Castor et Pollux, Enfers (a recital of Rameau, Gluck and Rebel with baritone Stéphane Degout, which won the Recital Category at the 2019 International Opera Awards), and the Gramophone Award-winning Mozart – The Weber Sisters with Pichon’s wife, the coloratura soprano Sabine Devieilhe.
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Recording of the Week,
A Mozart Requiem with a twist from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon
The French conductor and his dynamic ensemble shed new light on the score (given here in Süssmayr's familiar completion) by weaving in material from Mozart's youth which foreshadows ideas later developed in the Mass - including an early 'Miserere' and music from 'Thamos, König in Ägypten'.
Interview,
Raphaël Pichon on Monteverdi's Vespers
The conductor talks about his new recording of Monteverdi's unique sacred masterpiece, plus recent and upcoming Delibes and Mozart projects.
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