Sir John Eliot Gardiner - The Complete Erato Recordings
[ Erato / CD Box Set - released 19/May/2023 ] 64 CD Box Set. "My love for baroque music has never been exclusive. Of course I am attracted by period instruments, but that has never been an end in itself. For me, it is simply a matter of always moving further towards the truth, towards a fresh... |
ERIC SATIE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Les Inspirations insolites Eric Satie Aldo Ciccolini, Michel Legrand, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mady Mesple, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, etc [ Erato / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1990 ] The music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) remains as provocative, delightful - and surprising - as ever. These 2 CDs, featuring artists with impeccable credentials in French repertoire, draw together more unusual and rarely recorded repertoire. |
ERIC SATIE
Satie (LP) Aldo Ciccolini (piano) [ Erato / LP - released 13/May/2022 ] A special re-release for Record Store Day 2016, this LP of Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes and other piano pieces by Erik Satie salutes Aldo Ciccolini, the Italian-born pianist who launched the Satie 'boom' when this album first appeared in 1956. Whether... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Cantatas Aleksei Tanovitski (bass) & Kostiantin Andrejev (tenor) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Narva Boys Choir & Estonian Concert Choir, Paavo Järvi [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2015 ] "Järvi's Estonians perform with fervour and the Razin makes the issue worthwhile." (Sunday Times) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Journal Intime Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] "memorably refined and stylish performances...Here, as so often with Tharaud, there is an aristocratic balance of sense and sensibility, though his brilliant fury in the Second Ballade's Presto storm is breathtaking" Gramophone |
ALEXANDER SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Alexandre Tharaud plays Scarlatti Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] "Tharaud brings all of the resources of the modern grand piano to Scarlatti's music and is unapologetically pianistic in his approach." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb March 2011) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 30, 31 & 32 Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 8/Oct/2018 ] Alexandre Tharaud records Beethoven for the first time! Beethoven's last three sonatas, Nos. 30, 31, 32, composed 1820-22 and are considered some of the most difficult works in the repertoire. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] Music of the Baroque era - Bach keyboard concertos and Scarlatti sonatas - already features in the eclectic Erato catalogue of the French pianist Alexandre Tharaud. Now he is giving us his interpretation of one of the monuments of the repertoire for... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Alexandre Tharaud - Le poète du piano Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Erato / 3 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Thirty years of recording. A discography built from stones of many different, and sometimes clashing, colours, but a discography with a broad and solid structure, a kind of self-portrait. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Tharaud Plays Rachmaninov Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Alexander Vedernikov, with Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) [ Erato / CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "After the famous introductory bars - following the score rather than the composer's recording - the sweeping first subject enters faster, thankfully, than Richter's celebrated account but with the same majestic assurance" Gramophone Award Nomination |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D899 / Moments Musicaux, D780 / Rosamunde transcriptions Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] When Tharaud performed the Impromptus at London's Wigmore Hall in 2014, The Guardian wrote: "He got to the heart of the beauties and abysses of this music." |
MAURICE RAVEL / MANUEL de FALLA
Ravel: Piano Concertos / De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Orchestre National de France, Louis Langree [ Erato / CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] "There is much to admire here, not least the Orchestre National de France, which is on superlative form under Louis Langrée...Tharaud is the star of the show, though." BBC Music |
BACH / GLASS / SCHUBERT / TCHAIKOVSKY / GRIEG / RACHMANINOV / PIAZZOLLA
Alexandre Tharaud & Friends - Four Hands Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Nicolas Angelich, Mariam Batsashvili. Gautier Capucon, Bertrand Chamayou, Beatrice Rana, Vikingur Olafsson, etc [ Erato Classics / CD - due 3/May/2024 ] "This was something I'd had in mind for a long time…to put together an album for the sheer pleasure of it, in collaboration with dear friends and paying tribute to the wonders of the piano duet repertoire." - Alexandre Tharaud |
RAMEAU / ROYER / COUPERIN / D'ANGLEBERT / DUPHLY
Versailles Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Justin Taylor (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/2019 ] "His sense of characterisation and fine detailing is everywhere apparent… Even for aficionados of this repertoire there are surprises to be had" Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2020 |
BARBARA
Barbara Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with with Juliette Binoche, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Radio Elvis, Bénabar, Juliette, Dominique A, Tim Dup, Jean-Louis A [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2019 ] "As usual, Tharaud confounds expectations and the two discs here, each of which is actually a self-contained album, approach Barbara's music in very different ways." Gramophone |
CHRISTINE / YVAIN / SIMONS / HAHN / MORETTI / MESSAGER
Croisette - Operettas des Annes Folles Amel Brahim-Djelloul, Patricia Petibon, Marion Tassou, Pauline Sabatier, Rémy Mathieu, Laurent Naouri, + / Orchestre National de Cannes, Benjamin Levy [ Erato / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Taking its name from la Croisette, the beachside boulevard in glamorous Cannes on the Côte d'Azur, this album evokes the fun-loving 1920s. It takes a trip around opérettes, French musical comedies of the era, composed by Maurice Yvain, Henri... |
FRANZ von BIBER
Cantatas Amsterdam Baroque Orcestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] By 1683 Buxtehude - who had a huge influence on the young Johann Sebastian Bach - had established an annual concert series which was held over five Sundays late in Trinity and Advent. These Abendmusik concerts, which were given following the... |
HANDEL
Water Music Suites 1, 2 & 3 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato / The Erato Story / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1052,1053,1056,1057, 1059, 1058, 1054 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman [ Erato Duo Bonsai / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/1990 ] Recorded at Eglise Walone, Amsterdam, Holland.1988 - 1989 |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos [complete] Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman [ Erato Duo Bonsai / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/1990 ] Recorded at Eglise Walone, Amsterdam, Holland.1985 |