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Fauré: Complete Music for Solo Piano

Lucas Debargue

Classical - Released March 22, 2024 | Sony Classical

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Pianist, thinker, and author Lucas Debargue explains having wanted to inflect “an experimental accent” onto this album which compiles the complete solo piano works of Gabriel Fauré. Indeed, his intentions encompass both the music itself as well as its highly polished sound production, featuring the use of the now infamous Opus 102 piano, conceived and fabricated by French manufacturer Stephen Paulello. This innovative instrument features 102 keys instead of the typical 88, along with highly reactive mechanics which give it an exceptional sound identity and incomparable variability. Lucas Debargue puts his fluid and inspired technique at the service of music that he first approached quite late, at the end of his music education, upon hearing another student play the “Barcarolle N° 1.” For him, this was a sort of paradigm shift, the discovery of a world that he previously wasn’t aware of. The first major confinement of the COVID 19 crisis ended up being beneficial for him, as it allowed him to return to the long practice sessions that the explosive international success of his career prevented him from enjoying. Casting aside the idea of grouping the tracks together by title, as Fauré himself had given them titles merely for his editors’ convenience, Lucas Debargue follows the thread of this pure music by carefully adhering to the opus numbers. This gives listeners a measure of the composer’s evolution as he slowly distanced himself from his mentors in order to find his own harmonic richness, which also happens to resonate with Lucas Debargue’s own artistic concerns as a composer evolving within a tonal perspective. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Ravel : Complete Works for Solo Piano

Bertrand Chamayou

Classical - Released January 15, 2016 | Erato - Warner Classics

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Succession: Season 4

Nicholas Britell

Film Soundtracks - Released May 29, 2023 | Lake George Music Group

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Signature Philip Glass

Angèle Dubeau

Classical - Released November 3, 2023 | Les Productions Analekta Inc.

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With the continuing popularity of Philip Glass' music, various performers have arranged it for new combinations. He hasn't been notably dismayed by this, and indeed, one might draw a comparison with Arvo Pärt, whose works, to some extent, come into their own as they are performed in different versions. This release by veteran violinist Angèle Dubeau and her ensemble La Pietà is unique thus far. Dubeau reduces some larger items, like an excerpt from the Koyaanisqatsi film score, to chamber ensemble dimensions while performing some of Glass' relatively sparse output of chamber music unaltered. This results in some interesting insights, for example, that the chamber music, although for the most part relatively recent, mostly sticks closer to the minimalist core of Glass' style than the larger pieces, which open that style up to harmonic motion on a bigger scale. Dubeau thus shines a novel lens on Glass' music as a whole. The performances are arresting, with the edge of tension that makes a strong Glass performance, and the Analekta label wisely departs from its frequent choice of Montreal churches for the Multimedia Room at McGill University, an ideal space. Even those with large Glass collections will want to add this unusual release.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Brahms : The Complete Solo Piano Works

Geoffroy Couteau

Solo Piano - Released March 18, 2016 | La Dolce Volta

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Solo Piano

Chilly Gonzales

Pop - Released January 1, 2004 | Gentle Threat LTD

Near the end of the old millennium, someone once rapped, "Being futuristic these days means being futuristic on your own terms," which is entirely fitting when said rapper records an album of solo piano instrumentals. (Perhaps less instructive is what said rapper went on to say: "Being futuristic means loving worms, saving your sperm, wearing your pubes in a perm.") The former Chilly Gonzales has a hint of Gershwin in his playing, an urbane, contemplative take on the blues that sometime turns into a wry smile. He also has a hint of Satie, the spare and haunted sound of a music box turning slowly to a halt as it comes to the end of its wind. But what he also has is entirely his own, which not only makes this the best album of solo piano instrumentals by a rapper extant but also one of the finest solo piano albums not by a jazz or classical performer. Obviously, there's a duality to any man who lit up stages with Peaches but also played with and produced Jane Birkin and Charles Aznavour, but Solo Piano is a disarmingly wonderful record.© John Bush /TiVo
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The Era Will Prevail (The MPS Studio Years 1973-1976)

George Duke

Jazz - Released May 15, 2015 | MPS

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Ellipses

Anastasia Kobekina

Duets - Released June 10, 2022 | Mirare

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Anastasia Kobekina suggests the history of the cello through ellipses, jumps in time between pieces from the 18th century, among the very first written for this instrument alone (Boccherini, Fesch, Galliard), and others from our time (Thierry Escaich, Jules Matton) which draw their writing processes and their sound palettes from the ancient repertoire. Whether it is a question of nostalgia, sometimes ironic, of homage or of intellectual and artistic transmission between composers, the compositions for cello are never born ex-nihilo. By returning to the sources of the Baroque era, composers write the present and the future of the cello. Anastasia Kobekina blurs the boundaries by building indescribable bridges between their so diverse writings. © Mirare
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Solo Piano III

Chilly Gonzales

Pop - Released September 7, 2018 | Gentle Threat LTD

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In 2004, he said that his album Solo Piano was a project that had relieved him of a variety of complexes that he had had about the relationship of his music to his character. How to sum up this singer, musician, entertainer? This record with a strong whiff of Satie solved a lot of problems, Jason Beck alias Chilly Gonzalez said at the time... A good decade later, this brilliant Canadian Zebedee bounds between passports, costumes, locations, eras and styles, always one step ahead of getting pigeonholed into a single role or genre. But he regularly returns to this solo, introspective work, as if compelled. This time, Solo Piano III rounds off what he describes as a trilogy. "The musical purity of Solo Piano III is not an antidote for our times", he says, "it is a reflection of all the beauty and ugliness around us. "Less monolithic than its predecessors, this final volume racks up a series of refined nods and winks with a rare intelligence. Satie and Chopin are never far away, and the same goes for Liszt, Bach or, more recently, Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers, the childhood idol of his to whom he dedicated the well-named Chico. Each track on this timeless record is dedicated to one of his "underdogs". Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, Fanny Mendelssohn, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, composer and writer Hildegard von Bingen, aviator Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly over the Atlantic in 1928, but also groups like Migos and Beach House or Conchita Cintron, the first woman rejoneadora: all are crowned with this pianist's laurels. © Max Dembo/Qobuz
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Succession: Season 1 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack)

Nicholas Britell

Film Soundtracks - Released August 9, 2019 | Milan

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Nocturnes (Solo Piano)

Maxence Cyrin

Minimal Music - Released January 13, 2015 | Evidence (LTR)

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Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Piano Solo

Ana-Marija Markovina

Classical - Released January 7, 2022 | haenssler CLASSIC

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"A composer’s oeuvre can only be fully understood in the context of his lifetime achievement. Concerts and events provide mere snapshots. I have always been more interested in the process than the highlights of an artist’s creative life. When I engage with a composer, I need to know everything about him. Mendelssohn was a cosmos that opened before me. There were worlds waiting to be discovered. My recording of the complete works is based on the system of compilation applied by Dr. Ralf Wehner of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig: the Mendelssohn-Werkverzeichnis (MWV, catalogue of Mendelssohn’s works). The category MWV U lists the piano works in chronological order of their composition, opening up completely new perspectives on the way Mendelssohn worked. It is clear, for example, that Mendelssohn first wrote his fugues, then composed the preludes to them quite a bit later, in order to publish them as pairs of Preludes and Fugues. That is also the only deviation from my chronological order: I have placed each Prelude before its Fugue, which is the way Mendelssohn intended it. Prelude and Fugue form a conceptual unity and a musically coherent form and must not be separated. The Lieder ohne Worte, on the other hand, are collections. Mendelssohn wrote them for publication in sets of six at a time. I have accordingly incorporated the Lieder ohne Worte into the chronological sequence”. (Ana-Marija Markovina)
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Truth - The Solo Piano Collection

Alexis Ffrench

Classical - Released October 7, 2022 | Sony Classical

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Stravinsky: The Complete Piano Solos & Transcriptions

Alexey Zuev

Solo Piano - Released May 13, 2022 | Fuga Libera

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Alexey Zuev has a very special relationship with Stravinsky’s music. From the age of seven, it entered his musical universe like a premonition, when he unknowingly "composed" a piece that bore astonishing similarities to Petrushka. Five years later, he discovered the "real" Stravinsky and his music never left him. At the current stage of his career, it was an obvious choice for him to embark on this large-scale recording adventure: recording the complete piano works of the composer who has shaped him so much musically. A veritable marathon of recordings was then almost miraculously put in place, despite the complications presented by the pandemic. The five discs that result from this formidable journey contain, among other things, a series of arrangements and transcriptions for piano made by the composer himself that have never been recorded and have even remained completely unknown. This is a significant discovery that sheds new light on this aspect of Stravinsky’s work. Produced with the support of the Fondation Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky Family Fund & Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation, the boxed set is remarkably illustrated with previously unpublished photographs that immerse the listener in the world of those years of creative experimentation and innovation that made this music what it is today. © Fuga Libera
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Solo Piano II

Chilly Gonzales

Pop - Released August 24, 2012 | Gentle Threat LTD

It's fair to say that Chilly Gonzales has not followed a traditional career path. Early on a comedy rapper with surprising wit, later a foil to his touring counterpart Peaches, still later a Berlin-based dance producer of throwback house, and, finally, through it all (going back to his college days at McGill University), a composer for piano and performer, he's followed a career arc that probably isn't even visible to Gonzales himself. His first album of Solo Piano appeared in 2004, revealing his skills on the keyboard to be primarily as a contemplative pastoralist rather than a furious virtuoso. (Conserving energy is likely what helped him break a Guinness world record for the longest solo concert, playing piano over two days in May 2009.) This style actually proved quite appealing to fans of his varied approach to music-making, much more so than any Sony Masterworks type of classical superstar. (Granted, anyone who's stuck around over the past 20 years, from his days in the alternative band Son to The Entertainist to Solo Piano II, has been nothing if not patient.) The second volume is quite similar to the first, with several nods to masters of the impressionist piano (Erik Satie, Frédéric Chopin). Gonzales also proves willing and able to be more playful than he has in the past, perhaps a nod to his frequent scoring of films; the solo piano form often harks back to the days of silent film, and that's an easy reference to make here. Since he's not a world-class performer, most classical fans won't find music of interest here, but Solo Piano II is an engaging record with a personality all its own.© John Bush /TiVo
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Constellations

Peter Sandberg

Miscellaneous - Released August 18, 2023 | Believe UK

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Aaron Copland: Piano Concerto, El Salón México, Appalachian Spring, Old American Songs

Aaron Copland

Classical - Released January 1, 2014 | Praga Digitals

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Sonatae a Viola da Gamba & Cembalo Obligato

Andrea De Carlo

Chamber Music - Released October 13, 2023 | Fineline

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Friedrich Gulda: The Stuttgart Solo Recitals (Live)

Friedrich Gulda

Classical - Released September 13, 2019 | SWR Classic

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One Nite Alone... (Solo Piano and Voice by Prince)

Prince

Funk - Released May 14, 2002 | Legacy Recordings