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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.
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Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Alexander Siloti, Arranger
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
3 Songs Without Words, Op. 17 (Gabriel Fauré)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Gabriel Fauré, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Orphée et Eurydice (Christoph Willibald von Gluck)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Alexander Siloti, Arranger
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Prélude No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3 "The Bells of Moscow" (Serge Rachmaninoff)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Sergei Rachmaninov, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited.
Nocturne No. 4, Op. 19 (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
6 Lyric Pieces, Book 8, Op. 65 (Edvard Grieg)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Edvard Grieg, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Valse triste, Op. 44 No. 1 (Jean Sibelius)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Jean Sibelius, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Prelude for the Left Hand, Op. 9 No. 1 (Alexander Scriabin)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Alexander Scriabin, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited.
Songs Without Words, Book 6, Op. 67 (Felix Mendelssohn)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Waltz No. 6 in D Flat-Major, Op. 64, No. 1 (Frédéric Chopin)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Frederic Chopin, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
The Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saëns)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer - Leopold Godowsky, Arranger
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Troisième Livre de pièces de clavecin (François Couperin)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - François Couperin, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Feuillet d'album (Emmanuel Chabrier)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited.
Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Kk. 141 (Domenico Scarlatti)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited.
L'Arlésienne, Suite de Concert No. 1 (Georges Bizet)
Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano - Georges Bizet, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Adios a Cuba (Ignacio Cervantes)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Ignacio Cervantes, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Tourbillon (d'après le Tourbillon de la vie de Georges Delerue) (Oscar Strasnoy)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Oscar Strasnoy, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Melancolie, FP 105 (Francis Poulenc)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Francis Poulenc, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited
Paisajes (Frederico Mompou)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Federico Mompou, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (Germaine Tailleferre)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Germaine Tailleferre, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
3 Gymnopédies (Erik Satie)
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano - Erik Satie, Composer
© 2013 Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. ℗ 2013 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Keyboard Concerto, BWV 979 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Alexandre Tharaud, Arranger, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer after Antonio Vivaldi
© 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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