Rachmaninov / Ravel: Tableaux en miroirs

Rachmaninov's Études‑tableaux, Op. 39 stands as a pinnacle of late Romantic piano writing, a cycle marked by extreme contrasts, vivid imagery and an overwhelming sense of melancholy. In striking complement, Ravel's Miroirs explores a concise and colour‑saturated musical language, defined by sonic experimentation, rarefied timbres and a refined clarity of expression that demands meticulous technical precision.

Pianist Cătălin Serban has long envisioned presenting these two major cycles side by side, tracing the tensions between their sound worlds and discovering an inner arc that binds them. Heard together, they illuminate each other - Rachmaninov's emotional depth set against Ravel's shimmering modernity -creating a compelling journey across two contrasting visions of the early 20th‑century piano.