BENJAMIN GODARD (1849-1895)
PIANO WORKS • 1
ELIANE REYES
Benjamin Godard was regarded as one of the most promising young composers in France but, standing firm against the ‘Wagner fever’ of his contemporaries, his music fell out of favor after his untimely death. Most of his piano works are character pieces such as the descriptions of water in Sur la Mer. This is a feature shared by the Schumann-like fairies and sprites of the Sonate Fantastique, contrasting with the powerful virtuoso abstraction of the Second Sonata.
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ELIANE REYES
The Belgian pianist Eliane Reyes gave her first concert at the age of five. When she was ten, she became a laureate of the Cziffra Competition at Senlis and played a Haydn concerto at the Tibor Varga Festival. She studied at the Brussels Conservatoire Royal, Berlin Hochschule des Künste, Salzburg Mozarteum and the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur and has gone on to an international concert career. Her recordings have brought various awards and honours, including nomination in 2012 and 2015 in the solo category of the International Classical Music Awards and in 2013 in the contemporary music category for her recording of piano works by Nicolas Bacri [Naxos 8.572530]. She is professor of piano at the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique and a frequent member of international competition juries.
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