As a tourist, Camille Saint-Saëns felt compelled to climb every mountain and ford every stream. As a composer, however, Saint-Saëns felt perfectly comfortable staying at home with the most conservative of late nineteenth century composers. Indeed, in his piano concertos, Saint-Saëns sounds less like a late nineteenth century composer than like a ...
The playing of Jean-Philippe Collard has a lot to recommend it, particularly in the way it is so naturally expressive. On this EMI reissue of the solo piano works of Ravel, Collard's use of dynamics and pedal to color the mood and character of each piece never sounds forced or artificial, nor does he ever sacrifice momentum or expression. Among ...
This two-CD set is actually more than the cover claims. Yes, it has the complete two-piano and piano duet works of both Debussy and Ravel, but it also includes Bizet's Jeux d'Enfants and the two-piano version of Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Michel Béroff and Jean-Philippe Collard are two solo pianists who frequently collaborate, with ...
Between 1973 and 1983, Jean-Philippe Collard recorded the complete piano music of Gabriel Fauré for French EMI. Although not picked up for American distribution by EMI's Angel label, it was eagerly snapped up by American collectors hungry for complete recordings of what is generally agreed to be the finest Romantic piano music written by a French ...
Let's raise a glass of Chateaux-Neuf-du-Pape to Erato, once one of the great French classical labels that exists only in reissues. In its prime, Erato had many of the finest French performers, from Monique Haas to Pierre Boulez, on its roster. At its peak in the digital era, it had even signed the Argentinean Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago ...
Terrific as far as it goes, this two-disc set of Schubert's music for piano trio goes no further than the Rhein. That is not to say that the quintessentially French ensemble of pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, violinist Augustin Dumay, and cellist Frédéric Lodéon is not absolutely first-rate in every way. Each is a strongly characterful and ...
This collection of works by Cesar Franck succeeds in presenting listeners with a good selection of the composer's more popular works, including the D minor Symphony and Franck's two most popular chamber works: the F minor Piano Quintet and the Violin Sonata. While all of the performances on the album are certainly competent and acceptable, none of ...
At first blush, this EMI Encore reissue of César Franck's Symphony in D minor and the Symphonic Variations may seem like a routine product, of interest only to cost-conscious collectors or neophytes; but experienced listeners will find this budget album to be much better than its uninspiring appearance and low price might suggest. The Orchestre ...
Though not composed on the same grand scale as contemporary orchestral works by Franck, Chausson, or Dukas, Fauré's orchestral works are consistently subtle, tuneful, colorful, and well crafted. Michel Plasson with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, cellist Paul Tortelier, violinist Yan Pascal Tortelier, tenor ...
Several recordings of Mozart's piano concertos accompanied only by a string quartet (or quintet) have appeared lately; this group of six, recorded in 1988, was one of the first. They are "authentic" inasmuch as the arrangements are Mozart's own, although his justification for doing them was that if he didn't, someone else would. One suspects that ...
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