Jean-Baptiste FONLUPT

Current programs

Bach/Busoni, Rachmaninov

& Brahms (2025-2026)

Program:

Bach/Busoni: Chaconne

Rachmaninov: Préludes op.23

1. in F# min. 2. in B flat maj. 3. in D min. 4. in D maj.
5. in G min. 6. in E flat maj. 7. in C min. 8. in A flat maj.
9. in E flat min. 10. in G flat maj.

Entracte

Brahms: Sonate op.5 no.3

Program details:

The program of this recital shows how music is nourished by different universes; find out what it is in music that feeds on different worlds; how music, a source of life and inspiration, sometimes takes us from one world to another through travel, quest or self-transformation; also discover what binds works together, how links are woven between the arts, where creative aspirations come from and what composers express between the lines.

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Franz Liszt's piano paraphrases of Verdi's operas, free fantasies mixing different themes, as well as the transcriptions of Wagner's operas, scrupulously faithful to the composer's texts, are as many acts of love towards those he honored as towards the piano itself. Deploying a new art of writing, a true science of sounds and a transcendent virtuosity, Liszt gives us splendors worthy of the original works, transforming these lyrical and orchestral masterpieces into sublime concert pieces.

Against the backdrop of its decors, ballet offers itself up as a spectacle, arousing admiration and enchantment. In the early twentieth century, from the Palais Garnier to the Bolshoi, from the Châtelet to the Mariinsky, the shimmering colours of the orchestra were often combined with the innovative choreography of the Ballets Russes. directed by Serge de Diaghilev. Assigned to illustrious composers, some of these scores saw the birth of piano versions, by the composers themselves, who conceived them as true pianistic works: concert pieces written as such, thus going beyond simple ballet music.

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Romantic Recital (2024)

Program: 

Schubert/Liszt: 3 Lieder
1. Der Müller und der Bach

2. Frühlingsglaube

3. Auf dem Wasser zu singen

Schumann: Fantasiestücke op.12

Intermission

Chopin: Fantaisie op.49
Chopin: Nocturnes op.27 no.1 et op.37 no.2
Chopin: Andante Spianato e Grande Polonaise Brillante op.22

Program details:

Open to the beauty of the world, curious about all modes of artistic expression, Franz Liszt devoted a true cult to the melodies of Schubert, of which he transcribed more than fifty for solo piano. The contemplative world of "Müller und der Bach", the love lament of a resigned man, is the starting point for this recital, which explores the crossroads between music and literature.

The program continues with a plunge into the world of night, with the Fantasiestücke op.12 and this exalted and chimerical universe cherished by Schumann, who finally takes here refuge in the unreal and the dream, and then the Fantaisie op.49 with its heroic accents and two Nocturnes by Chopin, one dark and mysterious, the other with the allure of a gentle barcarolle sung on a summer's evening.

This musical journey of a thousand Romantic impressions ends in dazzling fervor with one of the Polish composer's most emblematic works, a testament to his dual personality of dream and passion: the Andante Spianato e Grande Polonaise Brillante op.22.

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A few previous thematic programs...

Berlioz

5 recitals on the 5 movements of Belioz's Symphonie Fantastique

Given the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th & 25th of August 2019 ea the Berlioz Festival

1) Rêveries - Passions
Autour des Ballades de Chopin
Chopin: Nocturne op.9 no.2

Chopin: Ballade no.1 op.23

Chopin: Nocturne op.27 no.1

Chopin: Ballade no.2 op.38

Chopin: Nocturne op.37 no.2

Chopin: Ballade no.3 op.47

Chopin: Nocturne op.55 no.2

Chopin: Ballade no.4 op. 52

2) Un bal 
Autour de la Valse de Ravel
Chopin: 3 Valses: op.34 no.1, op.70 no.2, op.34 no.3


Chopin: 4 Mazurkas: op.30 no.1, op.6 no.2, op.24 no.2, op.63 no.1
Chopin: Andante Spianato e Grande Polonaise Brillante op.22

Ravel: Sonatine

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte


Ravel: La Valse

3) Scène aux champs
Autour de la Vallée d’Obermann de Liszt
Schumann: Fantasiestücke op.12

Schubert-Liszt: der Müller und der Bach, Frühlingsglaube, Auf dem Wasser zu singen

Liszt: Vallée d’Obermann

4) Marche au supplice
Autour de la 2ème Ballade de Liszt
Chopin: Nocturne op.48 no.1

Chopin: Fantaisie op.49


Liszt: Recueillement et Ave Maria

Liszt: Funérailles

Liszt: Ballade no.2


5) Songe d’une nuit de Sabbat
Autour de la Sonate de Liszt
Schumann: Fantaisie op.17

Liszt: Sonate

Berlioz-Liszt

Piano recital dedicated to Liszt and Berlioz

Given the 11th of My 2019 at the Colmar Festival

Liszt: l’idée fixe (sur le thème « l’idée fixe » de la Symphonie Fantastique)
Liszt-Berlioz: Bénédiction et Serment (Benvenuto Cellini)
Liszt: Ave Maria
Liszt-Berlioz: Ballet des Sylphes (Damnation de Faust)
Liszt: Ronde des Lutins
Liszt: Valse-Impromptu
Liszt-Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: II Un bal
Liszt: Vision (étude transcendante no.6)
Liszt-Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: IV Marche au Supplice (1ère partie de la Vision) et V Songe d’une Nuit de Sabbat (2ème partie de la Vision)

On an overgrown path

On an overgrown path is the name of a cycle of pieces by Janaceck of Moldovan inspiration composed at the very beginning of the 20th century. Yet it seems that it is not a walk but an inner journey around the grief caused by the death of his daughter. And the path on which Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt takes us runs towards the East.

Given at the Festival de Chaillol the 19th of July 2019

Estonie:
Ester Mägi: Kolm merepilti, no.1 (Images de la mer no.1)

Tchéquoslovaquie:
Leoš Janáček: Po zarostlém chodníčku (Sur un sentier recouvert)
no.1: Naše večery - Nos soirées
no.2: Lístek odvanutý - Une feuille emportée
no.5: Štěbetaly jak laštovičky - Elles bavardaient en hirondelle
no.10: Sýček neodletěl! - La chevêche ne s’est pas envolée!

Hongrie:
Ernő Dohnányi: Canzonetta et Cascades op.41 no.3 et no.4

Ukraine:
Sergueï Bortkiewicz: Esquisse de Crimée op.8 no.1: Les Rochers d'Outche-Coche

Arménie:
Komitas: Danses no.4 (Shushiki, danse de Vagharshapat) et no.5 (Et-Arach: danse de Erzurum)

Arménie:
Aram Khatchaturian: Berceuse, extrait du ballet Gayaneh

De Moscou à Vladivostok:
Florentine Mulsant: 11 Préludes op.78 (2018), création
(Mémoires russes: le train transsibérien 1. Moscou, 2. Moscou, 3. Kazan, 4. Dans le train, 5. Yekaterinburg, 6. Dans le train, 7. Novosibirsk, 8. Irkutsk, 9. Lac Baïkal, 10. Ulaan-Batar, 11. Vladivostok)

Russie:
Anatoli Lyadov: Barcarolle
Anton Arensky: Nocturne op.36 no.3
Sergueï Rachmaninov: Mélodie op.14 no.8 « O ne grusti »
The 3 pieces will be played without interruption

Caucase/Tatars:
Mili Balakirev: Islamey

Correspondances

Recital "Correspondances"

Recorded the 23rd of March 2019 at the Théâtre Dullin in Chambéry

Chopin: Ballade op.38 no.2, dedicated to Schumann

Schumann: Fantaisie op.17, dedicated to Liszt

Liszt: Sonate,  dedicated to Schumann

BIS: Chopin, étude op.10 no.6, dedicated to Liszt

Beethoven

Recital part of a Beethoven's integrale

Given in Arradon the 11 th of January 2020

Beethoven: Sonate no. 28 op.101

Beethoven: Sonate no. 21 op.53 « Waldstein »

Beethoven: Sonate op.106 « Hammerklavier »

Schubert

Récital Schubert
Given at the Folle Journée in Nantes the 30th of January 2022

Schubert: Sonate en la mineur D.537
Schubert-Liszt: 5 Lieder (Der Muller und der Bach, Frühlingsglaube, Auf dem Wasser zu singen, Aufenthalt, Gretchen am Spinnrade)
Schubert-Tausig: Marche Militaire D.733 no.1