Back to basics winner for Les Solistes at the Serres d’Auteuil

Finally! We had hoped for this return so much that we ended up no longer believing it. When pianist Adam Laloum laid his hands on the Yamaha piano at the Les Solistes festival at the Serres d’Auteuil on Friday evening, it did feel like coming home. A little reminder of previous episodes. In 2000, freshly removed from France Musique where she presented lively and cultivated programs, Anne-Marie Réby converted to organizing concerts and founded a piano festival in this garden botany which is also a jewel of Parisian architecture in the 1900 style. Already a homecoming for the founder, whose mother used to take her there in a pram.

We had become accustomed to one-hour recitals, systematically inserting a contemporary work between two classics, in this inspiring place where glass roofs, cast iron structures and turquoise decorations give life to the plants and… the piano. Then came 2012 and the extension of the Roland-Garros stadiumwhose works…