Lumen

Camille El Bacha is a pianist, composer and improviser. His father is the pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha, and they often perform together as a duo, but Camille charts his own path between classical, film and electronic music, with his group Leone Jadis. He launches our ‘Piano Stories’ series with a programme entitled ‘Lumen’, which he presents as a ‘constellation of preludes and improvisations’. His own compositions resonate with the preludes of Bach and Chopin, taken from the two books of The Well-tempered Clavier and the Twenty-four Preludes op.28 respectively. Camille El Bacha invites us on a journey where styles and periods merge into a single artistic impulse: ‘At the piano, I move almost unconsciously from interpretation to composition or improvisation. A Chopin prelude can inspire me to improvise, which can then lead to a new written piece.’

• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 3 in C sharp major, BWV 872: Prelude
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 11 in F major, BWV880: Prelude
• Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 2 No. 16 in G minor, BWV885: Prelude
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 2 in A minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 in D flat major ‘Raindrop'
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 16 in B flat minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 18 in F minor
• Chopin: Preludes (24), Op. 28
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 1 in C major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 3 in G major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 5 in D major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 6 in B minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 in A major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 8 in F sharp minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 9 in E major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 10 in C sharp minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 11 in B major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 12 in G sharp minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 13 in F sharp major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 14 in E flat minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 17 in A flat major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 19 in E flat major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 20 in C minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 21 in B flat major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 22 in G minor
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 23 in F major
• Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 No. 24 in D minor
• El-Bacha: Deuxième interlude
• El-Bacha: Prélude I 'Visions'
• El-Bacha: Prélude II 'Conte d’hiver'
• El-Bacha: Prélude III 'Jeu d’ombres'
• El-Bacha: Prélude IV 'Prière'
• El-Bacha: Prélude V 'Lumen'
• El-Bacha: Prélude VI 'Icare'
• El-Bacha: Prélude VII 'Danse'
• El-Bacha: Prélude VIII 'Nuages lunaires'
• El-Bacha: Premier interlude
• El-Bacha: Quatrième interlude
• El-Bacha: Troisième interlude