Réminiscences Camille Thomas and Julien Libeer

• Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924):
• 1Élégie, Op. 2406:42
• 2Mélodies, Op. 7: I. Après un rêve03:19
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921):
• 3Le Carnaval des Animaux, R. 125: VIII. Le Cygne03:33
• César Franck (1822-1890): Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major, FWV 8:
• 4I. Allegretto ben moderato06:31
• 5Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major, FWV 8: II. Allegro08:33
• 6Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major, FWV 8: III. Recitativo - Fantasia. Ben moderato07:51
• 7Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major, FWV 8: IV. Allegretto poco mosso06:34
• Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931): Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 28:
• 8I. Grave - Lento e sempre sostenuto05:00
• 9Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 28: II. Intermezzo - Poco allegretto e grazioso03:36
• 10Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 28: III. In modo di Recitativo - Adagio01:43
• 11Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 28: IV. Finale con brio - Allegro Tempo fermo03:37
• Gabriel Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23:
• 12I. Les Berceaux02:58
• 13Sicilienne, Op. 7803:44
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Suite for Cello and Piano, Op. 16:
• 14II. Sérénade03:12
• Henri Duparc (1848-1933):
• 15L'invitation au voyage04:21
• Total Runtime01:11:14

Info for Réminiscences

Camille Thomas and Julien Liebeer, ardent champions of chamber music, have devised an exceptionally varied yet coherent recital of French music for cello and piano. ‘Reminiscences’ invites its listeners to plunge into the sound-world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in works full of inimitable colours. Two large-scale compositions, César Franck’s illustrious Sonata and the rarely heard but splendid Sonata for unaccompanied cello op.28 of Eugène Ysaÿe, structure a programme that also includes celebrated short pieces by Duparc, Fauré and Saint-Saëns, all of them bywords for lyricism and imagination.

An invitation to a universe of dreams and poetry, from two wonderful artists of the new generation.

Camille Thomas, cello
Julien Libeer, piano

Camille Thomas
"A new star of the cello is discovered" Jens Rasmussen, DR Radio Denmark 2014

Nominated as Newcomer of the year 2014 by the French-Grammys ‘ Les Victoires de la Musique’, the Franco- Belgian cellist Camille Thomas was chosen by Musiq'3 - RTBF to represent Belgium at the European Broadcasting Union Competition, where she was awarded the 1st price and named “New Talent of the Year 2014”. She has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, including the Seventh Antonio Janigro International Competition in Croatia, the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Strings Competition, the Edmont Baert Competition and the Léopold Bellan Competition. She is a regular guest at leading venues such as the Salle Gaveau, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Jerusalem Music Center and the Berlin Konzerthaus.

She regularly appears as a soloist with orchestras such as Sinfonia Varsovia, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, La Baule Symphonic, the United Nations Orchestra, the Junge Symphonie Berlin of Berlin under the baton of conductors such as Theodor Guschlbauer, Darrell Ang, Pavel Baleff, Faycal Karoui, Debora Waldman, Kriistina Poska or Aziz Shokhakimov...

Her debut album « A Century of Russian Colors » for the label Fuga Libera (Outhere) released in May 2013 has been very well received by the international press (Choix de France Musique, 5* Volkskrant and 4* La Libre Belgique, Klara 10 Beste). Her next recording « Réminiscences » dedicated to French music with pianist Julien Libeer, will be released in the Fall 2016 on the label La Dolce Volta.

Her concerts are regularly broadcasted on international radios and TV such as Radio France, Espace 2, DR Danemark, Musiq ‘3-RTBF, Deutscher Rundfunk or Arte, TF1, France Télévision, Canal9. She has been chosen to be one of the « Stars of Tomorrow » by Rolando Villazon for his TV show presented on Arte in March 2016.

Camille studied in Frans Helmerson’s and Wolfgang-Emmanuel Schmidt's class at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, after working with Marcel Bardon and Philippe Muller in Paris and Stephan Forck in Berlin.

Camille Thomas plays a magnificent instrument by Ferdinand Gagliano (Napoli, 1788), the "Château Pape-Clément", on a generous loan from Bernard Magrez.

Booklet for Réminiscences