Jacqueline Eymar

Eymar has interpreted a wide and varied repertoire, in which the romantic period (Brahms, Schumann, Schubert…) and French music (Debussy, Fauré, Franck…) occupied a prominent place.

On February 13, 1965, composer Luc-André Marcel[1] addressed her in these terms: "The way in which you illuminate such and such a detail, of which you make emerge such and such a second level, of which you lead a crescendo, is of such evidence that one cannot not listen.

Moreover, the extreme beauty of the sound and the astonishing variety of colours, the total absence of arbitrary, gratuitous virtuosity, add to this impression of hearing pure music."

Eymar has given great importance to contemporary composers, introducing French and foreign audiences to artists such as André Jolivet, Georges Migot, Serge Nigg, Antoine Tisné, Marius Constant and Luc-André Marcel, whose two piano concertos she created.

In addition, her interpretation of César Franck's quintet in F minor for piano and strings with the Loewenguth Quartet (Philips L 00.381 L, 1958, recording of 1955, followed by Prélude, Choral and Fugue) remains a reference despite the years.