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JANACEK
Piano Works Alain Planes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "There is poetry aplenty, but he is not afraid of the music's dark heart." (BBC Music) |
SCHUBERT
13 Piano Sonatas Alain PlanAs (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 8 CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] "Alain Planès performs with magical dexterity, creates strong dynamic contrasts, and conjures an impression of textural variety." (Gramophone) |
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonata No 20 D959 / Four Impromptus Alain Planas (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Aug/2005 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (Dec 2001) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Alain Planès (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] "Planès is a lively and sensitive guide to these delightful works." - BBC Music Magazine |
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonatas Nos 16 Op.42 & 7 Op122 Alain Planas (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Nov/2001 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (Dec 2001) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Nos 58, 59, 60, 62) Alain Planes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Haydn Edition / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "Alan Plaines clearly has an affinity for Haydn, and this series may prove one worth having, at least based on this release. Plaines plays with sensitivity to the music, and again "sprightly" where called for." (Amazon) |
CHABRIER
Piano Works Alain Planas (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 4/May/2005 ] "We have just heard something extraordinary: music that connects our time with that of Couperin and Rameau." (César Franck, after the first performance of the Dix Pièces Pittoresques at the Société Nationale de Musique) |
JANACEK
Piano Works (Includes the Sonata & On an Overgrown Path) Alain Planas (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "Alain Planès is one of the rare pianists who can negotiate this double demand. On the one hand, as you might expect from a former Boulez affiliate, his performances are marked by the bracing clarity of the details. Janácek's characteristic rhythmic... |
CHOPIN
Preludes Op 28 / Mazurkas, Op 41 / etc Alain Planes (piano, 1906 Steinway) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Perhaps the most ambiguous and enigmatic of all Chopin's works |
TURINA
Piano Works Albert Guinovart (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) was one of the most important Spanish composers of the first half of the twentieth century. He raised Spanish music once more time to European levels. A professional pianist, he composed at the piano. We can listen here to... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto Op 54 / Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 80 Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado, with Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] '[T]he use of an early 19th-century fortepiano, here a Streicher of 1847, brings textural clairty, enhanced by the exceptionally subtle and sensitive dialogue between the two superb string players.' (BBC Music) |
SCRIABIN
Piano Sonatas 2, 3 & 9 Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2014 ] "There is no better guide to Russia's most mysterious composer than this pianist...These Sonatas and exquisite trifles are played with poise and grace." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
ALEXANDRA SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Works (Incls Sonata for Piano No 2 & 5 Preludes Op. 74) Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jun/2006 ] "Scriabin's strange genius played as if in the first white heat of inspiration" (Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2006) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano sonatas Nos 2, 6 & 8 Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jan/2017 ] "Melnikov eschews barnstorming and mere effect, yet his refined, thoughtful approach never lacks power or impact; cataclysmic passages are revealed afresh, tender moments meltingly exquisite" Classical Music |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Préludes (Book 2) / La Mer (version Debussy for 4-hand piano) Alexander Melnikov (piano Erard) with Olga Pashchenko [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "It's special because the playing is so good. Plus his instrument is exceptional. Brilliance can shine through the Érard mist, but the sound is always warm and humane, never mechanical." The Times |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos nos.1 & 2 / Sonata for violin and piano op.134 Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis, with Isabelle Faust (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "He makes his case well. The First Concerto is all rampaging dissonances and erotic regret; the Second (1957) masks nerve-racking syncopations beneath its surface brilliance...[the sonata] a compelling performance in which logic and rhetoric combine... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux / etc Alexander Melnikov (piano), Elena Brilova (soprano) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] "This stunning disc is finely recorded and makes you look forward to a further balance of songs and piano music from both these remarkable artists." Gramophone Magazine, April 2008 |
KURT WEILL
Berliner Requiem / Concerto pour violon et instruments a vent Alexandre Laiter / Peter Kooy / Elisabeth Glab / La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] 'Herreweghe and his group have extricated true beauty and elegance, in this Berliner Requiem. A resounding success.' - CD Classics |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: L'intégrale des valses Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] This recording by Alexandre Tharaud follows in the tradition of his earlier CDs devoted to Rameau, Ravel and Bach. Once again, the young French pianist revisits in his own way a repertoire which we thought had already been explored right down to the... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Tic, toc, choc Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] Following a benchmark Rameau album, Alexandre Tharaud continued in 2007 his exploration of French Baroque music with a programme focusing on the idea of play: 'Taking Le Tic-Toc-Choc, a colourful piece I often use as an encore, as the centrepiece, I... |
