LOUISE SIBOURD

Namur Belgium  Léa Strasunas   Vers l’avenir   23.06.06 The pianist is a great artist who develops a tonal range of an extraordinary richness.  Louise Sibourd possesses an exceptional sense of touch which sublimates the romanticism of Schumann, reinforces the suggestive power of Coral—whose compositional richness was a discovery for many in the audience—, lightens the virtuosity of Liszt, makes Debussy shimmer, and dramatizes Ohana.

 

CD Edizioni Rugginenti Milano 2005 Giampaolo CORAL Piano Works    Secunda Sonata, Viaggio a Palma,  Klavieralbum II, Variationen über ein Bild von Arnold Böcklin

 

 Lublin, Polen, Nasz Dziennik, 27.03.2000 The part of the piano played a very important role—not only as tonal complement—and was performed by Louise Sibourd with great care, sensitivity to her partner, and musicality.  The Miniatures (Dances) and Wanderer Fantasie Op 15 by F. Schubert constituted an excellent complement to the program; they were not only performed with precision , but with an unsurpassable verve and tonal charm.

 

Low Austria Balduin Sulzer  Neue Kronenzeitung 1999      In-depth Insight into “The Art of the Fugue”  (2 pianos with G. Hemetsberger)

 

 Freudenstadt  Südwest Presse, D, 12.1994 Delicate, Dynamic Gradations , Romantic Tone Spot On.  Poetry and Precis

 

 Craiova, Rumania 1991 4th Beethoven Concerto with the Craiova  Philharmonie Fine „perlé“, sobriety, musicianship, a natural technique that served moments of virtuosity as well as of dramatic tension, were the qualities displayed by the young pianist to whom one can predict a brilliant future.

 

 Price of the city of Morges, Swiss,  F. Trabauet and C. Pescia,  05.10.1990 She has great pianistic mastery and her interpretation is very imaginative .... was very orchestral in Debussy. Interpretation

 

Madeleine Milhaud about works of D. Milhaud in Ville d’Avray , 1988 I appreciated the clearness, the intelligence and musicality of her playing.

 

World Premiere of the First Piano Etude by György Ligeti 1986, Bratislava, and recording therof for the Grawemeyer Composition Award 1986. Dedication of the 5. Etude. TV recording of György Ligeti Pianoworks introduced by the composer in Barcelona and in Helsinki.

 

      BARCELONA, 3 reviews :                                       

 

Monsalvat, No 181, Jesus Garcia - Pérez and Pablo Nadal, April 1990 ...the concert in the Cultural Center of the Caixa was electrifying, with such suggestiv music, and a performer, Louise Sibourd, who did wonders with Ligeti’s „Etudes“, a diabolically difficult work with superdimensional space and sound structures which very few pianists are able to create. And (she achieved this) furthermore, with an exquisite expressivity, very different from the usual renderings of contemporary music, even those available on record, which are mechanical and deaf to the almost chopinesque lyricism which is latent in the music of one of the most authentically great composers of our day.

 

El Pais, F. Taverna-Bech, 16.02. 1990 The public, which was very large, was able to appreciate Sibourd’s exeptional interpretative qualities. To give shape to the rhythmic complexity - which may appear chaotic - or to the profusion of images and colors of Ligeti’s music, not anly is a first-rate analytical intelligence necessary, it is also indispensable to be in complete control of the pulse as well as the mechanics. The pianist displayed these faculties, but had it been only from them, the concert might have been cold and mechanical, distorting the meaning of Ligeti’s work. But this was not the case, because if the composer is full of exuberant and vital humanism, Louise Sibourd also demonstrated, with her energetic playing and communicative virtuosity, that she identifies fully with the composer.

 

La Vanguardia, Cesar Calmell, 19.02. 1990 The pianist Louise Sibourd, in an interpretation which constituted a sort of respectful glorification of the genius, and full affective communion with the purposes of the artist.

 

Züricher Zeitung, 01.12. 1990          A young pianist who is admirably up to playing this most demanding music. She played the Etudes with a structural clarity which made the listener much more conscious.

 

Swiss - Dissonance, Jean-Noel von der Weid, Feb. 1991 Louise Sibourd succeeded in unraverling the most difficult: she was able, on her own, to create the illusion of several different speed levels played simultaneously

 

Schwäbische Zeitung, Winfried Wild, 12.04. 1991 Louise Sibourd played these mostly extremly fast pieces, using most fingers of both hands almost without interruption, nonetheless as melodiously and poetically as Chopin Etudes.

 

Helsinki, Helsing Sanomat, Hannu-Ilari Lampila, 22.02. 1992 The viruoso pianist Louise Sibourd displayed a phenomenal sense of rhythm and divided the fast basic pulse with firm peacefullness -e.g. in series of five withe the right hand and series of three with the left one. Presumably, one does not manage this really difficult task by counting, but one has to feel the various pulses psycho-physically, like the Africans do.

 

Helsinki, Huvudstadtbladet, Harri Wessmann, 22.02. 1990 The piano etudes of Ligeti are probably so difficult to play that only Louise Sibourd and a few other manage to play them. Is is not only a technical problem, but Louise Sibourd succeeded quite fantastically with impressions. She used magic to bring forth an enormously poetic register, the existence of which she thus proves in these compositions.

 

Austrian Premiers of the 15 Etudes, 1996 

 

 Kärtner Tageszeitung, Musik Forum Viktring-Klagenfurt, Austria, 19.05.1996 Spectacular Listening Experience. Pianist Louise Sibourd Offered Something Extraordinary  Ecstatic Escalations .The superposing of these rhythmic layers results in an entirely novel listening experience for the audience.  It also, however, means that the pianist must overcome entirely new difficulties when it comes to performing this very varied and contrast-rich, but always immensely lively and captivating, music; its almost ecstatic escalations demand  the last bit of energy from  the performer.  There was enthusiastic applause for the excellent pianist, who expressed gratitude by repeating two pieces from her repertoire.

 

Braunschweiger Zeitung, Braunschweig,Deutschland 27.04.1999 Fantastical Soundscapes. She approaches tonight’s pieces—six from the Musica Ricercata and 15 Etudes taken from the three issues from 1985 to 1995—with concentration.  Her performances are evidently the result of a deep musical and intellectual process.

 

  Radio Vienna Standardt, Reinhardt Kager Wien, Austria 16.05.98 …the outstanding achievements of the performers (the ORF Wind Quintet and the pianist Louise Sibourd).