No doubt a French cousin of Elmer, Emmanuel Pahud is always hunting that crazy transcription. What else is a flutist to do? There is only so much flute repertoire and one is, after all, obliged to play something composed after the death of Mozart. So like so many other loony tune flutists, Pahud has gone out hunting transcriptions of works ...
You can hear right away why Francis Poulenc was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's favorite living composer. The elegantly light touch, the delicately ironic affection, the subtly affecting coolness: Poulenc was what she would have been had she been a melody and not the wife of an unfaithful husband who was also the President of the United States. In ...
The title of this 2005 EMI release, French Connection, is somewhat confusing since it leads one to expect special linkages between the four French composers -- Schmitt, Milhaud, Jolivet, and Emmanuel -- and the Russian Shostakovich and the Brazilian Villa-Lobos. However, Shostakovich's two Waltzes and Villa-Lobos' Chôros No. 2 are so short and ...
Pianist Eric le Sage's series of Schumann recordings called Klavierwerke & Kammermusik is a marvel. Not only is le Sage an ideal Schumann player, but he is an ideal Schumann programmer. That is to say, le Sage has not only the technique of a virtuoso and the soul of a poet, both mandatory qualifications for playing the German Romantic's extremely ...
Eric le Sage's superlative series of recordings of the piano music of Robert Schumann continues with this unusual but wholly organic set featuring the composer's works for children. In two well-filled discs, le Sage presents all 43 pieces from Album für die Jugend, along with the Twelve Piano Pieces for Little and Big Children, the Nine ...
With Harmonia Mundi's Avant-dernières pensées, young French pianist Alexandre Tharaud weighs in on the piano music of Erik Satie. He might as well, given the veritable glut of Satie-themed releases -- both old and new -- since the start of the twenty-first century, although this one stands apart from the rest in several respects. Wisely, Tharaud ...
In partnership with six different instrumental soloists, French pianist Eric le Sage here demonstrates, as he also did in his 2007 Alpha recording of Robert Schumann's solo piano music, that he is deeply attuned to Schumann's characteristic balance between the passionate and the intimate. This is especially true of the first disc, on which he ...
The hardest thing about performing Schumann's piano cycles isn't playing the notes. Though the notes are often exceedingly difficult -- the combination of virtuosity and sensitivity is as difficult to bring off in its way as Liszt's combination of virtuosity and velocity -- playing them correctly is only one aspect of Schumann's difficulties. And ...
If you love piano music of Robert Schumann, you owe it to yourself to hear this disc. To begin with, the repertoire is fabulous. The disc opens with the Piano Sonata, Op. 14, in its original five-movement form and not the more familiar three-movement form foisted on the composer by his publisher, then continues with the Impromptus on a Theme by ...
Eric le Sage made his reputation with slyly sentimental Poulenc and passionately poetic Schumann recordings, and this 2008 two-disc Schumann set can only enhance and enlarge his reputation. Featuring the well-known G minor Sonata, the less well-known Novelletten and Nachtstücke, and the much less well-known Drei Phantasiestücke, Vier Märsche, and ...
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