On the 25^th March 2016, Sony has released Lucas Debargue's debut album, the French piano player who has caught the attention of the international world after participating in the International Tchaikovsky Competition held in Moscow, in 2015. Lucas Debargue came fourth during the piano competition, but he certainly was one of the public's favourites and the winner of Moscow Music Critics Association prize, as he was considered to be "the pianist whose incredible gift, artistic vision and creative freedom have impressed the critics as well as the audience". In an article from July 2015, The Spectator wrote: "the real winner in the Tchaikovsky competition is the man who came last".

Truly, it can be observed that amongst the winners of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Lucas Debargue is the only one who has immediately signed a contract with a reputed label and has also recorded the first albums: the first album was released on the 25^th March 2015 and it is a recording of a live recital performed by Debargue in Cortot Hall, Paris in November 2015, and the second album, also a recital will be released in September 2016.

On this first album, one can find four sonatas: Domenico Scarlatti's sonata, Frederic Chopin's Ballade No. 4, Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No.1 and Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit.

Lucas Debargue - fourth prize-winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and recipient of the Moscow Music Critics Association prize - is a youngster with a fascinating and sensational life story. After all, to self-teach the piano at eleven years old, to work in a supermarket to self-finance his Art and Literature University studies, to give up entirely on the piano and then start playing it again, but professionally at twenty years and after four years to win a prize at one of the most important competitions in the world - is something completely extraordinary.

First of all, a great artist should be someone who has something important and unique to say to the world. And Debargue surprised through this, through the fresh and extremely convincing perspective given over some works which have been performed a thousand times before his performance, works like Frederic Chopin's Ballade No. 4 and Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No.1.

Lucas Debargue is the piano player who in 2015, at twenty-five years old has received the fourth prize of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Certainly, he was one of the public's favourites and he was even favoured by some of the members of the jury, as the international press wrote about Boris Berezovsky and his affirmation that he is not satisfied with the result of the competition and that Debargue should have received at least the bronze, if not the silver medal.

The unyielding impression Debargue left at the International Tchaikovsky Competition has also been described by Huffington Post: "There hasn't been a foreign pianist who has caused such a stir since Glenn Gould's arrival in Moscow, or Van Cliburn's victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition, at the first edition of the competition, in 1958".

And most of this unyielding impression is due to the Lucas Debargue's performance of Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit.

Debargue's second album is released in September 2016, a sign that talent and a bit of luck always finds a way to reveal itself. This album can be listened to on Radio Romania Music.

The recital-based album, signed by Lucas Debargue, released on the 25^th March 2016 can be heard on Radio Romania Music on the 15^th August, from 19:00 or anytime on the web page of 'Vote the Best Classical Album of 2016' Campaign.