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Pianist Alexandre Tharaud has offered a praiseworthy variety of recordings, ranging from Bach and Rameau to contemporary music, jazz, and now a double album of film music where he has to strike a balance that will satisfy both listeners looking for a wash of cinematic sentiment and those interested in a wider range of expression. He does admirably. The majority of music on this double album is French, naturally enough, but Tharaud does not short American composers (and in so doing reveals something of their debt to French music), and there are Italian pieces going all the way back to Nino Rota's score for Federico Fellini's The Nights of Cabiria (1958). The first CD is devoted to orchestral arrangements, taken with just the right tone by conductor Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; the second contains solo piano readings augmented by vocalists (one gets a taste of both the hugely popular singer Vanessa Paradis and soprano Sabine Devieilhe, among others) or instrumentalists (violinist Nemanja Radulovic). Tharaud offers Italian works in various moods (Rota's flamboyant music from Fellini's Otto e mezzo, otherwise known as 8 1/2, breaks things up nicely), and American favorites like Marvin Hamlisch's main theme from The Way We Were bump up against fairly obscure (at least to outsiders) French composers with no feeling of discontinuity. This is an album sure to land on many gift lists in 2022 and beyond, and it is a gift that will be appreciated.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Michel Legrand, Composer, Arranger - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - John Williams, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Philippe Sarde, Composer - Dimitri Soudoplatoff, Arranger
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Claude Bolling, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Les Frivolités Parisiennes, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Georges Delerue, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Wojciech Kilar, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Michel Legrand, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Ennio Morricone, Composer - Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Andrea Morricone, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Rachel Berlin, Orchestrator
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Michel Legrand, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - FRANCIS LAI, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Dimitri Soudoplatoff, Arranger
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Anonymous, Composer - Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Dimitri Soudoplatoff, Arranger
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Vladimir Cosma, Composer, Arranger - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Michel Legrand, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Dimitri Soudoplatoff, Arranger
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Vladimir Cosma, Composer, Arranger - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Vladimir Cosma, Composer, Arranger - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Gabriel Yared, Composer, Arranger - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Michel Legrand, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Marvin Hamlisch, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Dimitri Soudoplatoff, Arranger
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - John Williams, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Les Trilles Du Diable, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
FRANCIS LAI, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Les Frivolités Parisiennes, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Ennio Morricone, Composer - Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Maria Travia, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Antonio Pappano, Conductor - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra - Philippe Sarde, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
DISC 2
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Justin Hurwitz, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Vladimir Cosma, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Yann Tiersen, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Nino Rota, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
John Williams, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Nino Rota, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Nino Rota, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Vanessa Paradis, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Carlos D'Alessio, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Vladimir Cosma, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Nino Rota, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Michel Legrand, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Camelia Jordana, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Jean-Loup Dabadie, Poet - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Philippe Sarde, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Philippe Sarde, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Vladimir Cosma, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Michel Legrand, Arranger - Jean Wiener, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Ennio Morricone, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Nemanja Radulovic, Violin, FeaturedArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
John Williams, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Philip Glass, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Sabine Devieilhe, Soprano Vocals, FeaturedArtist - Justin Hurwitz, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Vladimir Cosma, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Philippe Rombi, Composer, Arranger
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Jean Wiener, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Stephane Grappelli, Composer - Michel Portal, Clarinet, FeaturedArtist - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist - Baptiste Dolt, Percussion, FeaturedArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano, MainArtist - Philippe Sarde, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Vladimir Cosma, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Ennio Morricone, Composer - Alexandre Tharaud, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Album Description
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud has offered a praiseworthy variety of recordings, ranging from Bach and Rameau to contemporary music, jazz, and now a double album of film music where he has to strike a balance that will satisfy both listeners looking for a wash of cinematic sentiment and those interested in a wider range of expression. He does admirably. The majority of music on this double album is French, naturally enough, but Tharaud does not short American composers (and in so doing reveals something of their debt to French music), and there are Italian pieces going all the way back to Nino Rota's score for Federico Fellini's The Nights of Cabiria (1958). The first CD is devoted to orchestral arrangements, taken with just the right tone by conductor Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; the second contains solo piano readings augmented by vocalists (one gets a taste of both the hugely popular singer Vanessa Paradis and soprano Sabine Devieilhe, among others) or instrumentalists (violinist Nemanja Radulovic). Tharaud offers Italian works in various moods (Rota's flamboyant music from Fellini's Otto e mezzo, otherwise known as 8 1/2, breaks things up nicely), and American favorites like Marvin Hamlisch's main theme from The Way We Were bump up against fairly obscure (at least to outsiders) French composers with no feeling of discontinuity. This is an album sure to land on many gift lists in 2022 and beyond, and it is a gift that will be appreciated.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 51 track(s)
- Total length: 02:22:38
- Main artists: Alexandre Tharaud
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Klassiek
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24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
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