

Alexandre Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud is a French pianist. He has recorded dozens of solo albums including Bach, Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & 5 morceaux de fantaisie, and Satie: Avant-dernières pensées. Tharaud has collaborated with Jane Birkin, Sabine Devieilhe, and Jean-Guihen Queyras on vocal and chamber music albums, and with contemporary composer Thierry Pécou. Among his most popular songs are The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude, Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 49, Aria. Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben (Transcr. Tharaud for Piano), and Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974: II. Adagio (After Marcello’s Oboe Concerto). Tharaud also appeared in the film Amour.
Latest Release

- JUN 27, 2025 Satie: Discoveries
Compiled to mark the centenary of the French composer Erik Satie’s death in 1925, this digital album anthologizes 29 short pieces which had not been published before. The majority are under a minute long, and the pianist Alexandre Tharaud clearly relishes the dashing unpredictability of the angular “Recrudescence” from the mini-cycle Soupirs fanés (Faded Sighs). He also catches to a tee the swirling gaiety of Parisian cabaret life in “Cancan grand-mondain,” and the clash of antique dance with modern tonalities in “Bourrée.” The violinist Nemanja Radulović joins Tharaud for a clutch of pieces, among them the wistful “Mélodie,” But it’s the gnomic four-movement sequence Esquisses bitonales (Bitonal Sketches), with its enigmatically side-slipping harmonies, which will perhaps tickle Satie devotees the most. Half-serious, half tongue-in-cheek, it concisely summarizes why Satie remains such a musically fascinating figure, substantially more than the quirky eccentric of legend.
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Alexandre Tharaud on Apple Music

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About
- FROM
- Paris, France
- BORN
- December 9, 1968
- GENRE
- Classical