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En Rêvalité

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French Music - Released December 1, 2023 | Wagram Music - 3ème Bureau

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The Complete Warner Recordings 1972 -1980

Itzhak Perlman

Classical - Released September 25, 2015 | Warner Classics

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Franz Schubert

András Schiff

Classical - Released March 27, 2015 | ECM New Series

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This double album represents a change of heart for pianist András Schiff, who once publicly ridiculed the idea of "playing Schubert sonatas on Graf fortepianos." He recounts his evolution and something of his philosophy in using a historical piano in an elegant booklet essay that some might find worth the price of admission. The same might be said of ECM's engineering here, which exceeds even its usual high standard and catches Schiff's whispered low notes with startling clarity. The recording was made in the chamber music room of the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, where Schiff's piano -- an 1820 Brodmann model from Vienna, once owned by the last Austro-Hungarian royal family, not a Graf -- usually resides. Those absolutely opposed to historical performance are likely to be repelled by Schiff's reading here, which spends a great deal of time at low decibel levels. But listen again: Schiff finds a great deal that's new in the music. The closing Piano Sonata in B flat major, D. 960, is perhaps the best of all, with the low trills that underpin the opening movement taking on subtle but vast expressive power. Schiff takes the slow movement at a fairly brisk clip and effectively turns it into a kind of nocturne in a way no one else has done. His muscular style is not submerged, but he adds to it a new expressive vocabulary that carries nothing of the somewhat reluctant tone players of modern instruments often bring to historical-instrument performances: Schiff has clearly thought these readings through, and felt them through. The shorter works on the album have as much weight as the two large sonatas. An extraordinary achievement.© TiVo
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Schubert : Des fragments aux étoiles

Shani Diluka

Solo Piano - Released September 4, 2015 | Mirare

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So Romantique !

Cyrille Dubois

Classical - Released March 10, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Le Ruban Dénoué - Valses

Frank Braley

Classical - Released December 1, 2023 | Sony Classical

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Composer Reynaldo Hahn is known mostly for his songs, and his music in the less common two-piano genre is all but forgotten. This release by pianists Frank Braley and Éric Le Sage may change that. The main attraction here, the waltz set Le Ruban Dénoué, contains marvelously evocative music; a "ruban dénoué" is an untied ribbon, and this work is indeed a gift for the listener who may not have heard it. The work consists of 12 waltzes, capped with a song rendered here by the ethereal Sandrine Piau; the waltzes have titles that seem to carry an unlikely degree of specificity ("Indolent Decrees of Chance," "The Lost Ring"), but listen and hear how the complexity of Hahn's textures brings them alive. Braley and Le Sage do not miss a detail. These pieces appeared in 1915 when Hahn was serving as a clerk at the front in World War I, and they feel like an uncannily detailed look back into a past that was instantly disappearing. The program is filled out with interesting two-piano works by Chabrier and Hahn; especially charming is Hahn's three-movement Pour bercer un convalescent ("Rocking a Convalescent"), limpid despite the use of two pianos. A delightful release that may leave listeners wondering where this music has been all their lives.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Memories – The Unreleased Recordings 1970-2019

Nelson Freire

Classical - Released October 14, 2022 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Rare is the artist whose leftovers would end up on best-seller lists, but this one from pianist Nelson Freire did just that in the autumn of 2022. Part of the reason is that the unexpected loss of Freire the previous year is still keenly felt. Also, his recorded output was less than prolific, and many Freire fans will jump on this release sight unseen, but the biggest reason is that there are indeed some lost gems, mostly small ones. The album offers recordings in three categories. First, there is a short session recorded in Berlin in 2014, apparently part of a project that never came to fruition. These include the miniatures that Freire always did so well; the balance of voices in the Myra Hess piano transcription of Bach's Jesu, joy of man's desiring is nothing short of miraculous. The Beethoven Andante favori, WoO 57, was apparently not recorded by Freire anywhere else. Second, there are three concertos recorded during radio broadcasts in Germany in the 1970s and '80s. The sound on these is reasonable considering the limitations of the era, and the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83, especially, is a fine illustration of Freire's art, with the percussive half-steps in the first movement done in such a way that they reverberate through the whole work. Finally, there are miscellaneous short pieces that have never appeared on CD before; one can understand, with the likes of Debussy's La plus que lente, why Decca wanted to rescue these from the historical scrap heap. Freire fans will need no encouragement here, and there is a lot of pleasure for the general listener.© James Manheim /TiVo

Qui De Nous Deux

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French Music - Released October 24, 2003 | Parlophone (France)

Distinctions Victoire de la musique - The Qobuz Ideal Discography
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The third studio album from French pop superstar -M- (aka Mathieu Chédid) features 15 cuts, all of which help to reinforce the idiosyncratic, award-winning artist’s reputation for crafting truly adventurous rock/jazz/pop songs with an international flair.© James Christopher Monger /TiVo

En Tête-A-Tête

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French Music - Released November 4, 2005 | Parlophone (France)

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-M- (theatrical, idiosyncratic French Pop artist Mathieu Chédid) released this double-disc, 23-track live album (his third) in 2005. Recorded between February 2004 and June 2005, En Tête à Tête (which is also available on DVD) includes many of Chédid's best-loved tracks.© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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James Carter Organ Trio: Live From Newport Jazz

James Carter

Jazz - Released August 30, 2019 | Blue Note Records

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James Carter's 2019 concert album Live from Newport Jazz finds the saxophonist bringing together two of his biggest stylistic touchstones: organ-steeped soul jazz and the swinging gypsy jazz of famed guitarist Django Reinhardt. The Detroit-born Carter first explored the music of Reinhardt on record with his 2000 album Chasin' the Gypsy and has regularly played many of the legendary guitarist's songs live. Conversely, for over a decade, Carter has also played with his soul-, funk-, and R&B-influenced organ trio, a group inspired by the work of artists like Jack McDuff, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Richard Groove Holmes. This live concert, recorded at the Newport festival in 2018, finds Carter ably combining gypsy and organ jazz (two seemingly disparate styles of music) with genre-bending élan. Joining him are his longtime organ trio bandmates Hammond B-3 specialist Gerard Gibbs and drummer Alex White. Reinhardt's songs work as both lyrical statements and avenues for extended soloing. Subsequently, as with the songs of the American Popular Canon, these compositions work well in a variety of settings. Primarily, Carter bends them to his will, infusing Reinhardt's Parisian melodicism with his own earthy groove. Kicking things off, he transforms the usually languid and stately "Le Manoir De Mes Reves" into a jaunty mid-tempo swinger rife with bluesy saxophone asides. Even more far afield, Carter mutates "Melodie Au Crepuscule" into a swaggeringly funky call-and-response groove between himself and Gibbs. Similarly, Reinhardt's ballad "Anouman" gets a dynamic interpolation that's pure Dr. Lonnie Smith as Gibbs shifts from subdued dusky chordal sections to ringing high-end jabs. More faithful to the source is the ballad "Pour Que Ma Vie Demeure," which Carter first recorded on 2008's Present Tense, and which he returns to here with urbane delicacy on the soprano sax. He closes out the set diving headlong into the would-be swinger "Fleche d'Or," as he and Gibbs grapple over Reinhardt's bop-inflected melody with spasmodic funk intensity, pushing the song to ever more outré heights. © Matt Collar /TiVo

Qui de nous deux

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French Music - Released November 17, 2023 | Parlophone (France)

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Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher

Herman Krebbers

Classical - Released August 25, 2023 | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.

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L'essentiel des albums studio

Michel Sardou

French Music - Released January 1, 2010 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Chanteur De Jazz

Michel Sardou

French Music - Released January 1, 1985 | Universal Music Division Mercury Records

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Les inédits du Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione s'il vous plaît

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French Music - Released December 6, 2019 | Wagram Music - 3ème Bureau

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Vocalise

Olga Scheps

Classical - Released July 17, 2015 | RCA Red Seal

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Saint-Saëns : Le Timbre d'argent

François-Xavier Roth

Classical - Released August 28, 2020 | Bru Zane

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Le Timbre d'Argent (The Silver Bell), begun in 1864, was Camille Saint-Saëns' very first opera. All but forgotten, it was last staged in 1914, before the 2017 Paris production on which this 2020 release is based. The forces here, including the specialist ensemble Les Siècles, the fine choir Accentus, and conductor François-Xavier Roth make a strong case for the opera's revival. Saint-Saëns obviously valued the work, revising it as late as 1913, due in part to the Franco-Prussian War; it is this last version that is heard presently. The work was termed a drame lyrique or opéra fantastique rather than an opéra comique, but it is an action-packed work that veers between romantic fun and fantasy elements that it shares, along with a pair of librettists, with Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman of 15 years later. (Goethe's Faust is another inspiration: the titular silver bell brings wealth but kills someone close to the user.) The fantasy elements are prominent in the substantial choral sections, giving the magical choir Accentus much to do. There is a great deal of sheer, sparkling Mozartian melody as well. Roth and a lively cast led by tenor Edgaras Montvidas as the obsessed, Faust-like artist keeps things moving along. Saint-Saëns is a conductor whose star seems to be on the rise, and admirers of his music are sure to want this. The surprise, however, is that anyone can enjoy it.© TiVo

Africainement vôtre

Magic System

World - Released May 16, 2014 | Parlophone (France)

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7ème

Véronique Sanson

French Music - Released November 14, 1979 | Parlophone (France)

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Le monde plus gros que mes yeux

Black M

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released March 31, 2014 | Jive Epic