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Gabriel Fauré (vol. 3) : Quintettes avec piano, Op. 89 & 115
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released September 25, 2012 | Alpha Classics
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Gabriel Fauré (vol. 1) : Œuvres pour violoncelle & piano - Trio
Eric Le Sage
Chamber Music - Released September 29, 2011 | Alpha Classics
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The works for cello and piano of Gabriel Fauré stemmed primarily from the antipodes of his career. Early on, he primarily composed miniatures, though the well-known Op. 24 Elegie was intended to be a movement of a sonata that never came to pass. The works from near the end of his life -- especially the two complete sonatas -- both feature surprisingly spirited, bright, eager moments despite the composer's failing health and hearing. Pianist Eric le Sage is joined by cellist François Salque on this impressive Alpha album. The sound quality achieved by le Sage, Salque, and the recording engineers at Alpha is what truly sets this album apart from others like it. The overall recorded sound quality is dry, crisp, close, and possessing a minimum of reverb. Even a bit more of any of these qualities and the disc would be sterile and uninteresting. But in their present combination, the outcome is one of exceptional clarity and focus, one in which listeners are transported to the very heart of the music. Salque and le Sage play with equal measures of austerity and simplicity, letting Fauré's sometimes overlooked sonatas speak to the openness and freedom achieved by the composer late in his career. The disc ends with a likewise enjoyable and gripping performance of the Op. 120 Trio with the addition of clarinetist Paul Meyer. As Vol. 1 of what is hopefully a survey of Fauré's complete chamber music, this installment is definitely worth checking out.© TiVo
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Robert Schumann : Complete Chamber Music With Piano (Intégrale de la musique de chambre avec piano)
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released April 17, 2012 | Alpha Classics
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Fauré: Nocturnes
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released March 15, 2019 | Alpha Classics
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With their poetry, their passionate and intimate lyricism, their refined style that gradually reveals hidden depths, the thirteen Nocturnes of Gabriel Fauré are the most significant group of works in his oeuvre for solo piano. Composed over a period of forty-six years (between 1875 and 1821), they bear witness to the composer’s remarkable stylistic evolution. From a form of expression rooted in romanticism, to an aesthetic fully aligned with 20th-century modernity, Fauré can be said to have shaped his musical personality like a sculptor. His Nocturnes are not all of equal importance, but as a whole their diversity and development offer a perfect panorama of his art. Éric Le Sage, one of the French piano school’s main representatives, whose many recordings for Alpha include the complete chamber music of Fauré, here interprets the repertoire closest to his heart. © Alpha Classics
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Beethoven : Trios for Clarinet, Cello & Piano
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released July 20, 2018 | Alpha Classics
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With this new series entitled ‘Salon de musique’, Alpha presents recordings made by artists who have enlivened the Festival of Salon de Provence for some years now: the pianist Eric le Sage, who has made many recordings for Alpha, the clarinettist Paul Meyer etc… with cellist Claudio Bohórquez, they have now put two Beethoven trios on disc. By 1798, the year Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Trio for piano, clarinet and cello op.11, he was already well-known in Vienna as a remarkable improviser and an ambitious young composer. the piece was clearly aimed at the enlightened aristocracy, as well as competent musical amateurs. This did not prevent the critics, though universally positive, from judging the score to be over-complex in places. Dedicated to the Empress Marie-Theresa of Austria, the Septet was published in 1802 by Hofmeister, and on being well-received it was then rearranged for various combinations. Beethoven himself made a version for clarinet, cello and piano, op.38 in E Flat major – the one recorded here. © Alpha Classics
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 KV 491 & 17 KV 453
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released July 1, 2022 | Alpha Classics
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Mozart’s piano concertos form a set that is not just exceptional but absolutely unique in the history of music: from No. 9 to No. 27, all are definitive masterpieces. According to H. C. Robbins Landon, an eminent specialist in the composer’s life and work, "it is above all their immense stylistic diversity that places Mozart’s piano concertos above and beyond those of his contemporaries". What these scores also share is their position at a crossroads for strongly impacting influences: that of the symphony, encouraging Mozart to make lavish use of the orchestra; the wind bands of the Imperial court, shaping his enhanced role for the woodwinds; and the influence of the opera, whose styles he worked into these concertos, often treating the dialogue between piano and orchestra as if they were stage characters. In this new recording, Eric Le Sage is joined by the Gävle Symfoniorkester to perform the Concertos for Piano and Orchestra No. 17 and No. 24 by the Salzburg composer. © Alpha Classics
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Fauré: Intégrale de la musique de chambre avec piano
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released October 30, 2015 | Alpha Classics
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Schumann Project: The Complete Solo Piano Music
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released October 23, 2012 | Alpha Classics
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Fauré (Vol. 4)
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released September 27, 2013 | Alpha Classics
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Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas, Op. 109, 110 & 111
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released September 8, 2014 | Alpha Classics
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Better known for his recordings of the music of Robert Schumann and Gabriel Fauré, pianist Eric le Sage ventures into less accustomed repertoire with this Alpha disc of the last three piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. These pieces, like others among Beethoven's late masterworks, have an ineffable aura of sanctity about them, and performers approach them with a sense of awe, as well as a solid backlist of recordings that lead up to them. Le Sage doesn't have a discography of Beethoven sonatas, or even much Beethoven in his catalog at all, so his offering of the Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109, the Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110, and the Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, may come as a surprise, or even an affront to some sensibilities. Yet he plays with the transparent touch and calm demeanor of many a master, and even though he isn't likely to be credited with a major achievement until he records the rest of the sonatas, these performances are equal in technique, physical prowess, and emotional power to many other fine renditions. The sense of transcendence that unifies these three sonatas is evident in le Sage's controlled interpretations, and he lends the music a clarity that feels a little rarefied and otherworldly, especially in the closing variations of Op. 111. On the strength of these exceptional performances, one hopes le Sage has a complete Beethoven cycle in store and that Alpha will release it soon.© TiVo
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Jardins suspendus
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released October 28, 2022 | Sony Classical
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Poulenc : Concertos pour piano & 2 pianos - Aubade
Eric Le Sage
Concertos - Released January 15, 2004 | RCA Red Seal
You can hear right away why Francis Poulenc was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's favorite living composer. The elegantly light touch, the delicately ironic affection, the subtly affecting coolness: Poulenc was what she would have been had she been a melody and not the wife of an unfaithful husband who was also the President of the United States. In this brightly sparkling disc by pianists Frank Braley and Eric le Sage, with conductor Stéphane Denève directing the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège of the Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre, the Concerto pour piano et orchestra, and the Aubade pour piano et orchestra, one hears the sophisticated charm, the insouciant wit, the unexpected intimacy, and the ineffable warmth of Poulenc's music at its most dryly moving. The sound RCA and at least five corporate partners have wrapped the performances in is clear, soft, and round. A strangely touching tribute to a marvelous composer.© TiVo
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Gabriel Fauré (vol. 2) : Quatuors avec piano, Op.15 & Op.45
Eric Le Sage
Quartets - Released May 2, 2012 | Alpha Classics
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Brahms: Œuvres pour piano à quatre mains (Intégrale musique de chambre), Vol. 10
Eric Le Sage
Chamber Music - Released May 27, 2022 | B Records
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Funereal variations, wild or melancholic waltzes, Hungarian dances with gypsy accents: this is an anthology of Brahmsian aesthetics that beautifully concludes the complete chamber music of the composer on B Records. Théo Fouchenneret and Éric Le Sage give all its colours and contrasts to the too often underestimated repertoire of the four-hand piano. © B Records
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Poulenc: Concertos, Aubade - Le Sage / Braley
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released January 15, 2004 | Sony Classical
You can hear right away why Francis Poulenc was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's favorite living composer. The elegantly light touch, the delicately ironic affection, the subtly affecting coolness: Poulenc was what she would have been had she been a melody and not the wife of an unfaithful husband who was also the President of the United States. In this brightly sparkling disc by pianists Frank Braley and Eric le Sage, with conductor Stéphane Denève directing the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège of the Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre, the Concerto pour piano et orchestra, and the Aubade pour piano et orchestra, one hears the sophisticated charm, the insouciant wit, the unexpected intimacy, and the ineffable warmth of Poulenc's music at its most dryly moving. The sound RCA and at least five corporate partners have wrapped the performances in is clear, soft, and round. A strangely touching tribute to a marvelous composer.© TiVo
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Fauré (v. 5) : Sonates pour violon, Berceuse, Romance...
Eric Le Sage
Duets - Released January 10, 2014 | Alpha Classics
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Klavierwerke & Kammermusik - III
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released January 10, 2008 | Alpha Classics
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In partnership with six different instrumental soloists, French pianist Eric le Sage here demonstrates, as he also did in his 2007 Alpha recording of Robert Schumann's solo piano music, that he is deeply attuned to Schumann's characteristic balance between the passionate and the intimate. This is especially true of the first disc, on which he teams with oboist François Leleux, clarinetist Paul Meyer, violist Antoine Tamestit, and hornist Bruno Schneider in performances that emphasize the sheer loveliness of Schumann's writing; beauty of tone, balance, and melodic grace take center stage. On the second disc, le Sage teams up with violinist Gordan Nikolitch for Schumann's three sonatas for violin and piano, and the results are quite different and compelling. Here, Schumann is a more dramatic, a more driven, even a more obsessive composer. Although he sometimes seems to be pushing his technique and intonation too far, Nikolitch's dedication never falters, and his forceful interpretations are made all the more convincing by his tenacity. Le Sage responds with his most powerful playing on these two discs. Recorded in the Salle de musique of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, Alpha's digital sound is real and natural.© TiVo
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Humoreske, Bunte Blätter & Etudes symphoniques | Klavierwerke & Kammermusik - IV
Eric Le Sage
Classical - Released March 27, 2008 | Alpha Classics
The hardest thing about performing Schumann's piano cycles isn't playing the notes. Though the notes are often exceedingly difficult -- the combination of virtuosity and sensitivity is as difficult to bring off in its way as Liszt's combination of virtuosity and velocity -- playing them correctly is only one aspect of Schumann's difficulties. And the hardest thing about performing the German Romantic's piano cycles isn't about interpreting the individual pieces in the cycles. Though the individual pieces run the gamut from deeply intimate to overtly passionate and from wildly excited to profoundly dejected, sympathetically interpreting them, too, is only one aspect of Schumann's difficulties.As Eric le Sage recognizes in this two-disc set of four of Schumann's piano cycles, the most difficult thing about performing them is holding all the exceedingly difficult and deeply poetic individual pieces in the cycles together as a single unified work. Le Sage realizes the difficulties involved because he has so clearly triumphed over them. In the most technically challenging movements of the Etudes symphoniques, le Sage plays the notes with gusto, and in the most interpretively demanding movements of Humoreske, he delves below the surface beauty to the soulful poetry beneath. But best of all, le Sage holds these works together. By molding ritardandos between movements, grasping the tempo relationships between movements, and sculpting groups of movements into larger structural units, le Sage forges each cycle into an indissoluble whole greater than the sum of its poetic and virtuosic parts. Recorded in full, clear digital sound by Alpha, the performances on this two-disc set should be heard by anyone who reveres the German Romantic's music.© TiVo
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Brahms : Musique de chambre (Intégrale, Vol. 1)
Eric Le Sage
Quartets - Released April 27, 2018 | B Records
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