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Despite all the somewhat hip graphics, this release from the new partnership of the venerable French label Erato and the revived Warner Classics imprint is at root a very old-fashioned type of album: a program of encores. Even some of the music might have been heard 50 or 75 years ago in a concert by one of the leading touring virtuosos of the day: the Sibelius Valse triste, Op. 44/1, and the Leopold Godowsky arrangement of Saint-Saëns Le Cygne, for example, are such chestnuts that they're actually a bit less often heard nowadays. But French pianist Alexandre Tharaud updates the old paradigm in several ways. First and most significantly, he adds some new material to the encores mix and integrates it effectively into the overall framework. Such works as Ignacio Cervantes' rattling Adiós a Cuba and Federico Mompou's El Lago not only are fresh in this setting but broaden out the mood and expressive range of the whole as the program proceeds. He also adds several Baroque keyboard pieces to the picture with entrancing effect. Finally, Tharaud has a moody and slightly capricious approach to the Romantic mainstream pieces on the bill that works well in this context. With superb sound from the entirely acoustically appropriate Salle Colonne in Paris, this is a strong release that serves the needs of the listener looking for a light album of incidental piano music.
© TiVo
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Alexander Siloti, Arranger
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Alexander Siloti, Arranger
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Sergei Rachmaninov, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Edvard Grieg, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Jean Sibelius, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Leopold Godowsky, Arranger
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
François Couperin, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Featured Vocalist, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
DOMENICO SCARLATTI, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Georges Bizet, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Featured Vocalist, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Ignacio Cervantes, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Featured Vocalist, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Alexandre Tharaud, Featured Vocalist, Piano, MainArtist - Oscar Strasnoy, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Alexandre Tharaud, Featured Vocalist, Piano, MainArtist - Federico Mompou, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Alexandre Tharaud, Featured Vocalist, Piano, MainArtist - Germaine Tailleferre, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd
Erik Satie, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Album review
Despite all the somewhat hip graphics, this release from the new partnership of the venerable French label Erato and the revived Warner Classics imprint is at root a very old-fashioned type of album: a program of encores. Even some of the music might have been heard 50 or 75 years ago in a concert by one of the leading touring virtuosos of the day: the Sibelius Valse triste, Op. 44/1, and the Leopold Godowsky arrangement of Saint-Saëns Le Cygne, for example, are such chestnuts that they're actually a bit less often heard nowadays. But French pianist Alexandre Tharaud updates the old paradigm in several ways. First and most significantly, he adds some new material to the encores mix and integrates it effectively into the overall framework. Such works as Ignacio Cervantes' rattling Adiós a Cuba and Federico Mompou's El Lago not only are fresh in this setting but broaden out the mood and expressive range of the whole as the program proceeds. He also adds several Baroque keyboard pieces to the picture with entrancing effect. Finally, Tharaud has a moody and slightly capricious approach to the Romantic mainstream pieces on the bill that works well in this context. With superb sound from the entirely acoustically appropriate Salle Colonne in Paris, this is a strong release that serves the needs of the listener looking for a light album of incidental piano music.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:10
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alexandre Tharaud
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics International
- Genre: Classical
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
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