Discs
Press reviews of the CD Rare french musics
Label Printemps des arts de monte-Carlo, 2021
« Aline Piboule, a pianist both calm and ardent, is precisely the one who has generously devoted herself to the resurrection of unjustly forgotten composers by recording some of their singular and prodigiously penetrating works. »
« Samazeuilh, Decaux, Ferroud and Aubert find in Aline Piboule an enlightened ambassador who allows them to go beyond the time of our amnesia. Her record, full of energy and poetry, takes up the challenge of consecrating their new contemporaneity. »
Jean de Faultrier, Singular’s, August 20212
« The full and luminous sonority of this piano that knows where it is going, virtuoso without ever being affected, with a very careful relief, gives us a superlative reading of Abel Decaux’s « Clairs de lune ». The interpreter greedily follows the indications that the text is full of. »
« The three types of PO Ferroud scotch us »
« Undulating with clarity, Piboule’s playing dreams (Dans la nuit), blows passion (the digital flights of Sur le rivage), colors and spices up Soccory’s Habanera to better abandon it with regret, with a tear of despair. »
François Laurent, Diapason *****, June 2021
« …by the contrasting aesthetics, by the incredible refinement of nuances and sonorities, but also by the merciless incisiveness of the subject (Decaux, Ferroud), Aline Piboule’s interpretations of these pieces are of notable reference ».
« This unspeakable joy of discovery coupled with a finely cultivated hedonism of sound gives this sumptuous recital the aura and thrill of great revelations. »
« As an endearing, singular and masterful performer, Aline Piboule combines an impressive technical mastery or an innate and magical sense of sound color with a deep affinity to the poetic universe of each of these rare, original and highly differentiated pieces. »
Benedict Hévry, Resmusica, June 2021
« In pages better known than these (Fauré/Dutilleux), one could sense an immense talent. It is consolidated and this new recording
is no longer a discovery but a confirmation.
(…) One will admire without reservation, the the precision of her playing, which does not harm either the grandiose evocations nor the deadpan portraits, her sense of construction and gradation, in short, preserves the pianistic speech from one end to the other with continuity and coherence. Then, with the greatest naturalness, these pages which are not necessarily easy to access, neither for the listener nor for the performer, sound with evidence. »
Jacques Bonnaure, Classica, May 2021 (disc awarded a “Choc” by Classica)
« A series of dazzling moments that highlight the unusual ability of the pianist to handle the spectacular flashes without losing her interiority in the long term. »
Pierre Gervasoni, Le Monde, April 2021
« Aline Piboule is an outstanding musician who plays with the contrasts between the works and manages to render all their facets. »
Pierre-Jean Tribot, Crescendo, Belgium, March 2021 (disc awarded a Joker Absolu)
« Aline Piboule gives a passionate and immediately captivating interpretation with powerful climates, a brilliant dramaturgy of light and a great play of dynamics. […] Concerning the Clairs de lune by Abel Decaux, the « French Schönberg » : Aline Piboule’s intense playing produces some very disturbing, disquieting, almost nightmarish moments… Icy coldness, goblin-like movements, everything becomes utterly frightening in La Mer, an impressionist piece with sometimes violent crescendi, composed a few years before Debussy’s masterpiece. »
Rémy Franck, Netherlands, March 2021 (disc awarded a Supersonic Pizzicato)
« A record that makes you madly love this music because everything is there: an impressive instrumental mastery, a dreamy sound, an art of poetry, an art of colors, a fluidity in the play […] An essential disc for any self-respecting record library that respects itself. »
Philippe Cassard, France Musique « Portraits of family », March 2021
« Her expressiveness and interpretations full of emotion are remarkable.
[…] « The richharmonies, the quality of the melodies and the poetic interpretation prove the accurate choice of these composers», « Powerful and expressiveness of style ».
Helmut Pitsch – O-ton (Austria), April 21, 2021
Press reviews of the CD Dutilleux & Fauré
Label Artalinna, 2017
« A Revelation »
« Famous names are not always a guarantee of good productions – the examples are numerous. However, there are sometimes less well-known artists who make beautiful music. Among them is French pianist Aline Piboule, who discreetly pursues her musical journey. She has just released a CD allowing us to hear what she has to say. »
Radio 100.7, Luxembourg, October 12, 2017
« Through a refined, structured, free interpretation, she affirms authority and science at the keyboard that one will remember, making her a leading figure of the French repertoire. »
Michel Le Naour, Cadences, September/October 2017
« The perfect smoothness of transitions is as surprising as thrilling… (…) But the main reason to appreciate this first soloist recording, beyond its consistency and its originality, is the performance in itself. Aline Piboule is not only tailoring her technique to each composer’s idiosyncrasies (her Fauré is full-bodied, her Dutilleux invigorating), she also delivers a robust yet graceful, elusive yet controlled playing. »
Sophie Bourdais, ffff Télérama n°3518, juin 2017
« A splendor »
« Fauré’s Ballade sounds symphonic in scope and remains always intelligible, which is no small feat. »
« Dutilleux’s Sonata has a majestic and lush sound, creating a sort of inner peace. »
Alain Lompech, Diapason 5*****, Juin 2017
« Chapeau für diese tolle Leistung ! Velvet-tone colours, a great refinement as well as genuine poetic feeling show the artistry of French pianist Aline Piboule. First class! »
Remy Franck, Pizzicato.lu, 16 mai 2017
« Aline Piboule knows how to make her voice heard and claim a place of its own among the top tier performers. (…) She achieves to combine mystery and clarity, rigour and flexibility. (…) The rich textural polyphony of Thème et Variations is absolutely transparent and devoid of any roughness, and the pianist’s touch is bursting with sensuality. (…) There is also much to admire in her subtleness when dealing with the musical flow, always temperate and thorough but full of delicate gradations in volume. »
« A distinct impression of freedom and suppleness. »
« Aline Piboule shows a remarkable inventiveness in playing with the tones and their shimmering colours. »
« A wonderful visiting card, full of promise. »
Jacques Bonnaure, Classica 4****, Juin 2017
« Aline Piboule has a perfect knowledge of these two repertoires. Better yet : an instinc for them. It allows her to overcome all the obstacles with an awe-inspiring obviousness. Her technical mastery sheds light on each and every facets of this adventurous journey. »
Pierre Gervasoni, Le Monde, 28 avril 2017
« Highly recommended recording. One of the most beautiful releases of these last weeks. Ten years from now, it’ll still be one of the gems of your piano collection. »
On Dutilleux :
« Aline Piboule’s has it all : finesse, delicacy, vigour, rythm, and this amazing ability to make her piano sound like an orchestra. All this sheds a fascinating light on Dutilleux’ Sonata. Ms Piboule’s performance is both inspired and ruthless, as is, quintessentially, this masterwork. »
On Fauré :
« Aline Piboule’s sound has a tender and sensitive quality, and her phrasing is a sheer delight. »
« There is much simplicity, nobility and beauty in Aline Piboule’s expressiveness, and it’s a pleasure to the ear. She shows all the greatness of this music without striving to demonstrate anything. She just plays and assimilates this music beautifully. »
Philippe Cassard, France Musique, 6 mai 2017
« The magnitude of the tone, the orchestra-like sound, the straightforward impetus : everything here has the force of the obvious. It never drags yet it takes the time to dream. This squaring of the circle is made possible by a singing and shadowy legato. »
Jean-Charles Hoffelé, Discophilia, Avril 2017
« (The Dutilleux Sonata) is a wonder of musical intelligence, of piano mastery, of dynamism. (…) The Fauré pieces are not parlour music : they’re taken at full tilt, the Ballade almost rushing, and it’s all the more enthralling. A major piano recording. »
Thierry Vagne, 16 avril 2017
Press reviews of the CD
Flûte et piano en France entre 1890 et 1920
« A demonstration of excellent taste and musicianship. »
Classica 4****
« A CD full of charm and flavor. »
Le Dauphiné Libéré
« The elegant style and refined sound of these young artists are equaled only by their virtuosity and musical complicity. »
La Marseillaise
« The piano takes flight under Aline Piboule’s masterful fingertips and is a fine complement to Jocelyn Aubrun’s talent. »
France Catholique 4****
« Jocelyn Aubrun and Aline Piboule display great complicity , as well as flawless understanding of the chosen works. »
Tempo flûte
Concerts
« A pianist that I have always known as much for her talent as for her commitment to the music of today and to forgotten masterpieces (…), these two characteristics do not deny themselves (…) ».
« Aline Piboule, a very very great piano this afternoon on France Musique »
Clément Rochefort – Program Générations France Musique, September 2021 / France Musique
« A path in four stages through diverse and circuitous paths, like an epic where transcended technique vies with emotion: a festival within a festival, a Piboule festival! »
« a marathon panorama of the multiple and eclectic talents of the artist »
Decaux La mer : « a transmission of a great eloquence which borders on the prowess »
Chopin : « the four Ballades, famous pages but renewed by the impetus and the energy ».
Recital of rare French musics: « We thus pass from luxuriance to originality (with Ferroud) and strangeness (with an almost atonal Decaux, in 1907!), transmitted between virtuosity, dexterity, sensitivity and effusiveness. A faultless course! The encore played with delicacy with a Romance by Fauré and the Clair de lune by Debussy. »
Pierre-René Serna – ConcertClassic.com, August 2021 / Festival Berlioz
Chopin : « Chopin’s Prelude No. 16 is a violent gust of wind that sweeps away everything in its path, an extraordinary page of the Romanticism in the flamboyant interpretation of Aline Piboule (…) ».
Debussy : « an energy and a concentration that stuns : vitality of the colors, clarity of the lines and the sound planes in De l’aube à midi sur les vagues ; orchestral dimension of the piano in Jeux de vagues ; beautiful legibility of the text in Dialogue du vent et de la mer of which she leads without fail the dramaturgy until the final emergence. »
Schmitt: « Aline Piboule restores the harmonic richness, the colors and the melodic vein within a very orchestral play that she knows so well how to maintain, in the commitment of the gesture and the resonant power of her piano. »
Aubert: « In the night » (…) « that the pianist makes shine with a thousand lights through a transcendental virtuosity. »
Michèle Tosi – Resmusica, August 2021 / Berlioz Festival
« An anthology of rare works by composers of the beginning of the XXth century for which Aline Piboule stands for with self-indulgence and virtuosity.»
Marie-Aude Roux – Le Monde, April 6, 2021 / Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Recital at the Palais Garnier of Monaco
« Aline Piboule provides the « special lights» of which Debussy speaks in Clair de lune
moonlight off Samazeuilh, a piece swinging between mystery of the depths, poetry of sound and nostalgia delicately suggested by our pianist. From « Pierre-Octave Ferroud », « Bourgeoise de qualité » and « Vieux Beau » are pieces of character to which she gives
brilliance and panache with an ease and fluidity of gesture that delight us. The keyboard is homogeneous and and the scope virtuoso.»
Michèle Tosi – Resmusica, April 2021 / Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Recital at the Palais Garnier of Monaco
« Aline Piboule has the talent to compose and defend programs where the music of the XXth century and of our time blends with that of past centuries, where the discovery competes for the front of the stage with the known repertoire» […] « Clair lune au large (Samazeuilh) appears under the impalpable touch of the pianist. […] « Clair de lune au large» (Samazeuilh) appears under the impalpable touch of the pianist…A moment of nocturnal reverie with delicate harmonies” […] (Types de Ferroud) « two pieces of character of which the pianist raises the spice and the superb with a lot of spirit and a bewildering technical agility.»
Jany Campello – ConSpirito, April 2020 / Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival, Recital at Monaco’s Palais Garnier
« Aline Piboule guides us through the unexpected riches of a French repertory that – though contemporary with the masterpieces of Debussy, Fauré, Ravel – is the work of nearly forgotten composers. »
« Aline Piboule displays an unfailing mastery […] One lets go of the disconcerting reality of the day in favor of this pure moment of reverie with which she presents us. »
« Aline Piboule, demonstrating great artistry, stayed firmly at the helm of her emotions to deliver us a masterfully performed concert. »
Jany Campello – ClassiqueNews, March 24, 2020 / Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival, Recital at Monaco’s Palais Garnier
« These works […] are served by the mastery, inspiration and conviction of Aline Piboule. »
Nicolas Darbon – Olyrix, March 16, 2020 / Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival, Recital at Monaco’s Palais Garnier
« On a majestic Bösendorfer, the musician brought to life four unjustly neglected composers. »
« Let us praise the vision of Aline Piboule, committed to the revival of these works and the reinstatement of their highly distinctive ingenuity. Demonstrating an impressive digital ease in these sometimes technically challenging pieces, it is above all in the troubling mood of Abel Decaux’ Clairs de lune that her dreamlike interpretation reached its highpoint. »
« A fascinating, superbly interpreted program. »
Jean-Claude Hulot – Diapason, March 17, 2020 / Monte-Carlo Spring Arts Festival, Recital at Monaco’s Palais Garnier
« A Barcarolle by Chopin whose breaths are combined with magnificent rubato belonging only to Aline Piboule, singing the thirds with sensuality and luminous lyricism. ” “A gourmet piano! ” “We did not see time pass … All we needed was a little boldness, intelligence, imagination and a few amps between the soloist and the public! A current that Aline Piboule successfully established. »
Jany Campello – Magazine Pianist, August 23, 2017 / Festival Around Ventoux
« The elegance of her playing lives up to the finesse of the score… Under Piboule’s fingers, music notes transform into master paintings full of color. »
Victoria Okada – Resmusica, July 21, 2016 / Festival Format Raisins
«On Sunday, Aline Piboule offered up a program of most impressive density and sharp expressive capabilities.
Delivering two ballads from Chopin with infinite soul, Aline Piboule took us to the next level with Faure’s Themes and Variations. In this particular piece, her interpretation was celestial and her playing always on point. (…) Finally, Dutilleux’s Sonata is admirable; Aline Piboule illuminated it with stunning shimmers and sovereign ardour.
Jean-Dominique Burtin – « Mag centre », May 25, 2015 / Festival de Sully-sur-Loire
«With thin hands but yet strong fingers, she develops responsive and sharp skills, dominating with a flawless velocity the outbursts contained in the War Sonatas (Prokofiev and Greif). Stunning!
One could appreciate the digital subtlety Aline Piboule in her spidery curls translating the Book II of Debussy studies. Undoubtedly, we can only wait new fascinations from this young rare gem.»
Georges Masson – Le Républicain Lorrain, December 19, 2014 / Arsenal de Metz
«Aline Piboule moves us with the intelligence and clarity of her interpretation, especially in Olivier Greif’s War Sonata. She performs with such implication and poignant strength that one can only be impressed by her talent.»
Victoria Okada – Resmusica, June 23, 2014 / Lille piano(s) Festival
«French pianist Aline Piboule, who took 2nd Place at the Competition, gave a magnificent performance from beginning to end, especially her set linking Pascal Dusapin’s Etude n°2 Igra and an excerpt from George Crumb’s Makrokosmos. Performed with such poetic ease and downright staggering sonority, it was the high point of the evening.»
Laurent Vilarem – La lettre du musicien, March 25, 2014 / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris
«Aline Piboule wins us over with her mobility. The exchange she establishes with the musicians in this virtuosic piece allows us to fully appreciate the stark contrast between this very mobility and bewitching serenity.»
Michel Le Naour – Concertclassic, March 24, 2014 / Scène Nationale d’Orléans
«An astounding Aline Piboule performed Olivier Greif’s War Sonata.»
Jean-Dominique Burtin – Mag’centre, March 12, 2014 / Salle de l’Institut, Orléans
«Her interpretation of Dutilleux is magnificent and inspired.»
«Aline Piboule’s sumptuous sonority in Fauré’s 7th Nocturne restored the grandeur and the lyricism of this intimidating masterpiece.»
Philippe Cassard – Le matin des musiciens /France Musique, October 16, 2013 </em>
Interview
Matinale France Culture avec Chloë Cambreling Cliquez ici
Matinale France Musique avec Gabrielle Oliveira Guyon Cliquez ici
Générations France Musique avec Clément Rochefort (à 1h13’20) Cliquez ici
RTS avec Benoît Perrier Cliquez ici
RCJ avec Frédéric Hutman Cliquez ici
Fréquence Protestante avec Marc Portehaut Cliquez ici
Portrait of Aline Piboule on Bachtrack by Jean Landras, March 2020
https://bachtrack.com/fr_FR/interview-aline-piboule-mars-2020
Portrait of Aline Piboule by Thierry Vagne, April 2018
http://vagnethierry.fr/en/meeting-the-pianist-aline-piboule/
Le concours international de piano d’Orléans au Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
