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ERIC SATIE
Tout Satie! (10 CD Complete Edition) Aldo Ciccolini, Michel Legrand, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mady Mesple, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, etc [ Erato / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] A collection of unrivalled completeness, Tout Satie proves that the music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) remains as provocative, delightful - and surprising - as ever. These 10 CDs, featuring artists with impeccable credentials in French repertoire, draw... |
GABRIEL PIERNE
Pierne: Complete Piano Works / Chamber, Orchestral & Vocal Music Diane Anderson, Jean Hubeau (piano) Lily Laskine (harp) Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) / Jean-Baptiste Mari, Andre Cluytens, etc [ Warner Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 17/Mar/2023 ] Gabriel Pierné - composer, pianist, organist, and conductor - This edition presents his compositions in dazzlingly diverse performances, with the composer himself at the piano and baton, inviting the listener on an exciting exploration of his career |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore (Complete opera) coupled with Sullivan's Cox and Box D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed; Kenneth Sandford; Jean Hindmarsh / Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Isidore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
VIVALDI
Concertos, Cantatas, Magnificat Emma Kirkby (soprano) Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Choir / Jean Lamon (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] 'This thoughtfully and effectively chosen programme deserves fhe attention of all baroque music enthusiasts' - The Good CD Guide |
BLOCH / BRUCH / LALO / SAINT-SAENS
Works for cello and orchestra Pierre Fournier (cello) / Orchestre Lamoureux, Berlin Philharmonic, Jean Martinon, Alfred Wallenstein [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 20/Jan/2009 ] "Fournier is impassioned and eloquent [in the Lalo]...expressive in the slow movement and rhythmic in the delightful Allegro presto dance section […] the Bruch is played with dignity and without undue emotionalism" Gramophone |
MESSIAEN
Des Canyons Aux Etoiles Roger Muraro (piano), Jean-Jacques Justafré (horn), Francis Petit (xylorimba) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mynug-Whun Chung [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2003 ] "This is a score that requires a shockingly high standard of virtuosity from every player, and gets it - the French Radio players are thrilling to listen to, Chung is Messiaen's devoted disciple, and he knows just how to frame his soloists, unleash t |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (complete opera recorded in 2005) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Rolando Villazon, Maria Bayo, Jean-Luc Chaignaud / Daniele Callegari (cond) [ Virgin Classics DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "Rolando Villazón is here on top form, fleshing out the notes with alternate delicacy and vehemence and personifying the shy, frustrated hero with a Chaplinesque range of gesture and mannerism." (BBC Music) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos / Concerto for two violins / etc Heinz Holliger (oboe) Michala Petri (recorder) Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) / Neville Marriner [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 18/Jun/2001 ] Acclaimed recordings featuring the winning-combination of Marriner and the ASMIF |
VERDI
Falstaff (Complete Opera) Hillevi Martinpelto, Jean-Philippe Lafont / Orchestre RACvolutionnaire, John Elliot Gardiner [ Philips / 2 CD - released 28/Mar/2001 ] "Here is the most exciting Verdi opera recording to appear for a while. This first ever period-instrument Falstaff explodes with all the tiny nuances and details that lurk in Verdi's mercurial and protean score. Gardiner is now the one to go for."... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Concertos I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone, with Nane Calabrese (viola d'amore), Pierre Pierlot (oboe), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Maurice Allard (bassoon) et [ Warner Concertos / 15 CD Box Set - released 16/Sep/2019 ] Antonio Vivaldi and Claudio Scimone, two names forever bound to each other in a quest for originality and beauty. |
BEETHOVEN
Mass in C major Janice Watson (soprano); Jean Rigby (mezzo); John Mark Ainsley (tenor); Gwynne Howell (bass) / Corydon Singers and Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "The performance of the Mass is as good as any modern instrument version I've heard and I'm delighted that it's been restored to the catalogue" (MusicWeb April 2007) |
EDOUARD LALO
Lalo: Le roi d'Ys (Complete Opera recorded in 1957) Janine Micheau, Rita Gorr, Henri Legay, Jean Borthayre / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion française, André Cluytens [ Erato The Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 25/Apr/2018 ] Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys draws on the same Breton myth of a submerged city as Debussy's La Cathédrale engloutie. A great success at its 1888 premiere at Paris's Opéra Comique, it even reached the Metropolitan Opera, New York, but its current rarity on the... |
RAVEL / BIZET / BARTOK / WEBER / NIELSEN / VARESE / etc
Jean Martinon/ Chicago Symphony - Complete recordings Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, with Benny Goodman (clarinet) [ RCA / Sony Classics / 10 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] The renowned French conductor Jean Martinon (1910-1976) studied with Charles Munch and Albert Roussel and was also a distinguished composer. His performances, in the words of one of his biographers, "were distinguished by a concern for translucent... |
SCHUMANN / BERLIOZ / DUKAS / ROUSSEL / FALLA / POULENC / etc
Icon: Jean Martinon - The Late Years Various orchestras conducted by Jean Martinon, with Lily laskine. Itzhak Perlman, Marie-Claire Alain, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2015 ] 2016 marked the 40th anniversary of Jean Martinon's death. This 14-CD collection focuses on Martinon's activity with the Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F between 1968 and 1975 and on repertoire - much of it French |
Jean Michel Jarre
Chronologie [ Dreyfus Records / CD - released 22/Oct/1993 ] American imported disc. |
Jean Michel Jarre
Oxygene 1-6 [ Dreyfus Records / CD - released 21/Sep/1993 ] European imported disc. |
Jean Michel Jarre
Oxygene 7-13 [ Dreyfus Records / CD - released 27/Jul/2004 ] Oxygène 7-13 (known as "Oxygène 2" on the Oxygène Trilogy box set) is the twelfth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released by Disques Dreyfus on February 1997. It is the sequel to his 1976 album Oxygène... |
Jean Michel Jarre
Oxygene Trilogy (3 CD) [ Columbia / Sony CD / 3 CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Forty years after the huge international impact of Oxygene, and 20 years from it's second volume Oxygene 7-13, Jean-Michel Jarre is fulfilling a trilogy of albums with Oxygene 3, containing seven newly composed and recorded pieces, consistently... |
Jean Michel Jarre
Rendez-Vous [ Dreyfus Records / CD - released 5/Apr/1994 ] American imported disc. |
Jean Michel Jarre
Revolutions [ Dreyfus Records / CD - released 1/May/1994 ] American imported disc. |
