Aurélien Pascal et Pierre-Yves Hodique perform Beethoven, Poulenc and Popper

Founded in 1990, the association Flâneries Musicales de Reims aims to promote music in the city of Reims and its surroundings. With its high artistic level, the festival gathers the most talented young musicians of their generation for a series of concerts titled "Débuts". Since 2012, medici.tv has partnered with this summer musical rendez-vous to broadcast performances of these young talented musicians.

A laureate of the first Junior Rostropovitch Competition in Paris aged only 11, cellist Aurélien Pascal was recently awarded the Grand Prix of the International Cello Competition in Berlin and is studying at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur under Philippe Muller. He was already acclaimed during great European classical music festivals. Alongside him, the young virtuoso pianist Pierre-Yves Hodique will perform. In 2011, Hodique won the Prize for the best accompanist pianist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He is also the favourite accompanist of the rising star of the cello Edgar Moreau; many of their concerts in duet were broadcast live on medici.tv. At the Paris Conservatoire where he was admitted unanimously by the jury in 2008 after a completing a brilliant baccalauréate in musicology, Pierre-Yves Hodique studied under Jean-François Heisser and Marie-Josèphe Jude.

Aurélien Pascal and Pierre-Yves Hodique perform Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69, a masterpiece in the chamber repertoire, dedicated to Beethoven's close friend the baron Von Gleichenstein in 1808. The composer Francis Poulenc is highlighted with his Cello Sonata, FP 143 which he began to compose in 1940 and dedicated to the cellist Pierre Fournier. The concert ends with a score of the Austrian-Hungarian Romantic composer David Popper, the Fantasy on Little Russian Songs, for cello and piano, Op. 43. Popper lived at the end of the 19th century and whom the conductor Hans von Bülow praised for his "magnificent tone, great technique".