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Mendelssohn : Romances sans paroles, Variations sérieuses, Fantaisie écossaise

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released September 11, 2008 | Mirare

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Ravel: Trio en la mineur; Mendelssohn: Trio no. 1 en ré mineur, Op. 49

Jascha Heifetz

Classical - Released December 31, 2010 | RCA Red Seal

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Hélène de Mongeroult, portrait d'une compositrice visionnaire

Marcia Hadjimarkos

Classical - Released September 20, 2023 | iMD-Seulétoile

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Chopin, Schubert & Prokofiev

Yulianna Avdeeva

Classical - Released September 8, 2014 | Mirare

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Le Concert des Oiseaux. Vincent Bouchot: Le Carnaval des animaux en péril

La Rêveuse

Classical - Released February 10, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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Several famous pieces of music based on birdsong appeared in the 19th and 20th centuries; those by Saint-Saëns, Britten, and Ravel are here, although Messiaen is not. However, the affinity between music and birdsong had been explored for centuries before that, and the early music group La Rêveuse here provides some delightful examples. The always pictorial François Couperin is represented, as is Rameau, but other composers are less familiar but no less charming. Sample the works by Theodor Schwartzkopff, Michel Blavet, and especially Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737), whose "Les Ramages" ("The Songs") names a group of birds and then illustrates their songs. Then there are historical-instrument versions of Saint-Saëns, Britten, and Ravel. One may accept this idea or not, but even in the latter case, they don't do much to dent the charm of the whole. The program ends with a work by contemporary composer Vincent Bouchot, Le Carnaval des animaux en péril, a kind of a take-off on Saint-Saëns for the Anthropocene era that also calls forth a striking variety of instruments from La Rêveuse. Another questionable idea is that, in keeping with the practices of this group, recorded birdsong is heard between some of the tracks. Whatever aspects of this release might be doubtful, it rarely fails to bring a smile. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Chopin: 26 Préludes - Scriabine: Sonate Op. 19 No. 2

Beatrice Rana

Classical - Released September 2, 2012 | ATMA Classique

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Edvard Grieg : Concerto pour piano, Pièces lyriques (extraits)

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released January 31, 2007 | Mirare

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Poésie Française

Roxane Elfasci

Classical - Released November 10, 2023 | Amigo

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Alexander Scriabin : Intégrale des Etudes pour piano

Andrei Korobeinikov

Solo Piano - Released October 6, 2014 | Mirare

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Dandrieu Offertoires

Jean-Baptiste Robin

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Fauré & Schumann

Marie-Pierre Langlamet

Classical - Released April 2, 2021 | Indésens

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Charlotte Sohy: Piano Music

Marie-Laure Garnier

Classical - Released April 1, 2022 | La Boîte à Pépites

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37ème Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron

Iddo Bar-Shaï

Classical - Released July 14, 2017 | Mirare

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15 Histoires de guitares

David Jacques

Classical - Released May 28, 2021 | ATMA Classique

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At the beginning of the 19th century, the composer and guitar-maker collaboration enriched the guitar with a variety of models, materials, and techniques. At the time the guitar was “the fashionable instrument,” a must in music halls and European courts. In this second volume of guitar stories, guitarist David Jacques brings together 15 instruments made by the best luthiers of the 19th century. These rare guitars are part of his important private collection. Originally from Saint-Georges de Beauce, au Québec, David Jacques holds a doctorate in early music performance from the University of Montreal. He first studied classical guitar at Cégep de Sainte-Foy, Laval University and the Conservatoire de musique de Québec. He has collaborated on more than fifty recordings on the XXI-21, ATMA, Oz and Analekta labels, many of which have been nominated for ADISQ, JUNOs, Opus Awards and ECHO Classiks. © ATMA Classique
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Oeuvres pour piano (Intégrale - volume 3)

Geoffrey Burleson

Classical - Released October 1, 2012 | Grand Piano

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Mendelssohn

Sol Gabetta

Chamber Music - Released January 19, 2024 | Sony Classical - Sony Music

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A good chunk of the 19th century repertory for cello and piano was composed by Felix Mendelssohn, and grateful duos have responded with a good many recordings even during the years when Mendelssohn was out of fashion. This one by cellist Sol Gabetta and pianist Bertrand Chamayou can stand with the best of them. Gabetta and Chamayou have performed together for almost two decades, and it shows in their rendition of the youthful and enthusiastic Variations concertantes, with its shifts of mood and texture. There is an unusual piece here (the recently discovered Assai tranquillo) and the performances of the two hugely contrasting cello sonatas are very strong, with the almost neoclassical Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 45, and the Romantic, stormy Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58, emerging with vivid individuality and a fine sense of the composer's idiomatic cello writing (Mendelssohn's brother was a cellist) from Gabetta. Another distinctive feature here is the set of contemporary pieces on the second CD in the physical version, commissioned by the performers with a request to respond to Mendelssohn's Songs without Words in some way. It is not completely clear that this works; Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, one of which is included here, proceeded from different aesthetic bases than those of Wolfgang Rihm and Jörg Widmann. However, Gabetta gets a real virtuoso vehicle in the Lieder ohne Worte II excerpts by Heinz Holliger and succeeds with it. In general, the music-making here is committed, sensitive, and often enough humorous; it will please any lover of Mendelssohn or the cello. The album made classical best-seller lists in early 2024.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Nicholas Angelich: Hommage

Nicholas Angelich

Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Pianist Nicholas Angelich, even more admired in Europe than in his native U.S., passed away tragically early in 2022 at the age of 51. One way to look at this Hommage is to note that it took quite a bit of research power, much of it apparently donated, to put together this massive seven-volume tribute, assembled from live performances and radio broadcasts between 1995 and 2019. That is a lot of Angelich, but fans here will find much that sheds new light on his genius. Consider the Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 24, which Angelich rarely played in concert. It receives a wonderfully controlled performance in which the tricky architecture of this work comes to the surface. Angelich was a fine virtuoso, and the Liszt Transcendental Etudes and the big Russian works generally have a layer of excitement added by the live performance. However, Angelich is equally effective in subtler pieces, thoughtful in the likes of Zemlinsky and the Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, where the sequence of events feels somewhat different from in the pianist's 2011 studio recording even as the über-Romantic slow tempos are retained. His opening aria is even slower than on the studio version. The mastering of these immensely diverse sound sources from Erato is as good as such a thing can be, and physical album buyers get some fine reflections on the pianist's work. This is, in short, an effective tribute to a pianist whose life and work were brutally cut short.© James Manheim /TiVo
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French Duets - Fauré: Dolly Suite; Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc etc.

Steven Osborne

Classical - Released March 5, 2021 | Hyperion

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