I wanna be like you
The Piano Transcriptions
Everything here is about illusion and pleasure.
‘After several years of transcriptions devoted exclusively to Russian music, I felt the urge to explore new horizons, to tackle repertory that presented new challenges and called for new ways of approaching the piano. This was also the moment when I met and began studying with Claudio Martínez Mehner, who, among a thousand other things that I owe to him, introduced me to the Baroque repertory and taught me to love it.’
What emerges from the groove is unpredictable. Florian plays with illusions, he enjoys himself and attempts the unpredictable. So he has recorded this album where he wants to put everything: Bach that no longer sounds like Bach, the myriad colours of Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphony orchestra, Renaissance music, the music of a child hero in the midst of the jungle, waltzes of varying degrees of pomp. – From the booklet notes by Florian Noack and Pierre Solot
Diapason d’Or 2025
Choc de Classica
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‘Everything radiates and bewitches, without ever losing sight of the scope of the source work, which is reborn in a light both familiar and new.’
Le Figaro Magazine
‘I can’t praise this recital enough; this is the kind of playing that reminds me of everything I love about the piano.’
MusicWeb International
‘The pianist seems equally at home with the crisp precision of contrapuntal Bach as he is as a colourful story teller in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and, of course, swinging along with King Louis.’
BBC Music Magazine
‘A transcendent pianist as well as a fabulous and imaginative paraphraser/transcriber.’
ResMusica
‘A true masterstroke.’
Le Monde