The French musician, recognized in French and Germanic directories, publishes a magnificent Liszt recital at the Dolce Volta. A program that he will give in concert on May 12, at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, before going on a Chambriste tour in France.
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The head in the hands, in such a deep attention that it seems to cut it from the world, Michel Dalberto listens, from behind, the last movement of Appassionata, of Beethoven. It is clear this Monday morning April 25, in the great hall 229 of the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris. But what is bright especially are the advice, between technique and existential questions, that the pedagogue provides to the Japanese pianist Ryutaro Suzuki, whose career quivers. Fingered, detailed use of the pedal, but also Shakespearean drama, the recording of Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) which must have heard and, of course, the crucial question of the tempo, to which the great French pianist has always granted a particular attention. “Like 95 % of Beethoven’s music, this sonata must go in a certain radicality,” he enthuses. I am not politically for the extremes, but there, yes! “
The juvenile and neat silhouette of Michel Dalberto, 67 years old on June 2 (he was born in Paris in 1955), classic Polo Lacoste Grenat and subtly matching diamonds, little known by the musician and the man, distant by Nature, to the point that we have sometimes reproached him for a certain coldness. “I protect myself a lot. It probably served me,” he admits. “I will not easily go to people, and when someone comes too fast towards me, it scares me a little. But if you ask to My friends, to my students … “Michel Dalberto lets silence finish his sentence. Just as music speaks for him, pianist integrates, ardent and sensitive, between height of view and spirit of finesse, touching up to his refusal of seduction.
“I am an adopted child.” Man raised the enigma of his birth at the bend of a sentence: “I do not know my origins, but that does not interest me. For a good reason, c ‘is that I can only imagine better parents than those I had. “Michel Dalberto remembers this little piano with two octaves, received at Christmas, tunes heard on disc or radio, that he tries to reproduce there. First lessons at 3 and a half years old, then music school in the 16 e arrondissement of Paris. An eight -year -old little sister her youngest arrived when the young boy meets for the first time the one who was his mentor, the following year, at the Paris Conservatory, the great French naturalized pianist, of Lithuanian origin, Vlado Perlemuter (1904 -2002).
Mozartien, then Schubertien
“I knew two pearls. The first was the one who auditioned me at 12 years old, in his Parisian apartment on rue Ampère, he recalls, whose courses at the Conservatoire took place Habeneck room, And who was called master, like all the teachers at the time. “The adolescent has not yet measured only through the former pupil of Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) saw Gabriel’s heritage Fauré, and especially that of Maurice Ravel, which Perlemuter has known well when he worked his works with the composer, in the house of Montfort-l’amaury (Yvelines).
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