'Une fête Baroque' – Le Concert d'Astrée

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Music from "Les Indes galantes", "Hippolyte et Aricie", "Dardanus", "Platée", "Castor et Pollux"
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687):
Music from "Thésée"
Henry Purcell (1659-1695):
Music from "King Arthur or the British Worthy"
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759):
Music from "Rinaldo", "Agrippina", "Orlando", "Giulio Cesare in Egitto", etc.

Le Concert d'Astrée [on period instruments]
Emmanuelle Haïm - conductor

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Music of the Enlightenment (Vol.15/29) – Rameau – Castor et Pollux (part 3)

Music of the Enlightenment (CD15/29) - The last Glories of 'Tragédie lyrique':

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Castor & Pollux (part III)

Sarah Connolly - contralto
Howard Crook - tenor
Jérôme Corréas - baritone
Agnes Mellon - soprano
Véronique Gens - soprano
René Schirrer - bass
Sandrine Piau - soprano
Mark Padmore - haute-contre
Claire Brua - soprano
Sophie Daneman - soprano
Adrian Brand - tenor
Jean-Claude Sarragosse - bass

Les Arts Florissants [on period instruments]
William Christie - conductor

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Music of the Enlightenment (Vol.14/29) – Rameau – Castor et Pollux (part 2)

Music of the Enlightenment (CD14/29) - The last Glories of 'Tragédie lyrique':

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Castor & Pollux (part II)

Sarah Connolly - contralto
Howard Crook - tenor
Jérôme Corréas - baritone
Agnes Mellon - soprano
Véronique Gens - soprano
René Schirrer - bass
Sandrine Piau - soprano
Mark Padmore - haute-contre
Claire Brua - soprano
Sophie Daneman - soprano
Adrian Brand - tenor
Jean-Claude Sarragosse - bass

Les Arts Florissants [on period instruments]
William Christie - conductor

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Music of the Enlightenment (Vol.13/29) – Rameau – Castor et Pollux (part 1)

Music of the Enlightenment (CD13/29) - The last Glories of 'Tragédie lyrique':

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Castor & Pollux (part I)

Sarah Connolly - contralto
Howard Crook - tenor
Jérôme Corréas - baritone
Agnes Mellon - soprano
Véronique Gens - soprano
René Schirrer - bass
Sandrine Piau - soprano
Mark Padmore - haute-contre
Claire Brua - soprano
Sophie Daneman - soprano
Adrian Brand - tenor
Jean-Claude Sarragosse - bass

Les Arts Florissants [on period instruments]
William Christie - conductor

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Music of the Enlightenment (Vol.1/29) – French Harpsichord Music

Music of the Enlightenment (CD1 / 29) - French Harpsichord Music:

François Couperin (1668-1733):
Vingt-Cinquiéme Ordre *
Vingt-Sixiéme Ordre *
Sixiéme Ordre *
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Premier Concert +
Cinquiéme Concert +

Christophe Rousset - harpsichord * +
Ryo Terakado - violin
Katori Uemura - viola da gamba

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Rameau, J.S.Bach, Couperin – Piano Works – Alexandre Tharaud

HAPPY 2015

CD 1:
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Suite in A major
Suite in G major
Claude Debussy (1862-1918):
Hommage à Rameau

CD 2:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Sicilienne from Concerto in D minor BWV 596
Concerto in G minor BWV 975
Aria from Pastorale in C minor BWV 590
Italian Concerto in F minor BWV 971
Concerto in D minor BWV 974
Concerto in C minor BWV 981
Concerto in G major BWV 973
Andante from Concerto in B minor BWV 979

CD 3:
François Couperin (1668-1733):
Les Baricades Mistérieuses
Le Tic Toc Choc ou Les Maillotins
La Couperin
Les Calotines
Les Ombres Errantes
Les Tricoteuses
Le Carillon de Cythère
La Muséte de Taverni
Les Rozeaux
L'Atalante
Passacaille
La Muse Plantine
Les Tours de passe-passe
Bruit de guerre
Le Dodo ou L'Amour au berceau
La Visionnaire
La Logiviére
Les Juméles
Les Chérubins ou l'aimable Lazure
La Pothouïn

Alexandre Tharaud - piano

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Great Pianists of the 20th Century – Earl Wild

Transcriptions

CD 1:
Gluck-Sgambati:
Mélodie d'Orphée
Rameau-Godowsky:
Rigaudon
Elegie
Tambourin
Bach-Tausig:
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Wagner-Moszkowksi:
Isoldens Tod
Rimsky-Korsakov-Rachmaninov:
The flight of the Bumble-Bee
Kreisler-Rachmaninov:
Liebesleid
Mendelssohn-Rachmaninov:
Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Rossini-Thalberg:
Grande Fantaisie on "Semiramide"
Chopin-Liszt:
Chants Polonais
Tchaikovsky-Wild:
Pas de quatre from "Swan Lake"

CD 2:
J.Strauss-Schulz-Evler:
Arabesques on "An der schoenen, blauen Donau"
Glinka-Balakirev:
Fantasy on "A Life for the Tsar"
Rossini-Herz:
Variations on "Non piu mesta"
Donizetti-Thalberg:
Fantasy on "Don Pasquale", Op. 67
J.Strauss-Godowsky:
Symphonic Metamorphosis on "Kuenstlerleben"
Gershwin-Wild:
The Man I Love
I Got Rhythm
Embraceable You
Fascinatin' Rhythm
Somebody Loves Me
Liza
Oh, Lady Be Good

Earl Wild - piano

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Various Composers – 18th-century Overtures – Raymond Leppard

Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782):
Catone in Utica - Opera: Overture
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Les Paladins, comédie lyrique: Overture
Zaïs, pastorale-héroïque: Overture
Pygmalion, acte de ballet: Overture
William Boyce (1711–1779):
Here all thy active fires diffuse, ode: Overture
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725):
Il giardino di rose: La SS Vergine del Rosario, oratorio: Overture
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801):
I Tre Amanti, opera: Overture
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736):
L'olimpiade, opera: Overture
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759):
Il Pastor Fido, opera, HWV 8a: Overture
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813):
Le Jugement de Midas, opera: Overture
Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747):
Polifemo, opera: Overture
Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini (1730–1786):
Oedipe a Colonne, opera: Overture
Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763–1817):
Le Jeune Henri, opera: Overture

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Raymond Leppard - conductor

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Wilhelm Kempff – Schumann, Brahms – 1950 solo recordings – Original Masters [DG]

remembering Wilhelm Kempff on his birthday

(25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991)

CD 1:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Papillons, op.2
Symphonic Etudes, op.13
Kreisleriana, op.16
Arabeske, op.18

CD 2:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856):
Fantasia in C major, op.17
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Four Ballades, op.10
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op.24

CD 3:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, op.5
Scherzo in E flat minor, op.4
Piano Pieces, op.76
Rhapsody op.79 No.1 in B minor

CD 4:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Rhapsody op.79 No.2 in G minor
Fantasias, op.116
Intermezzi, op.117
Piano Pieces, op.118
Piano Pieces, op.119

CD 5:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, op.27 No.2 "Moonlight"
Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, op.13 "Pathétique"
Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, op.57 "Appasionata"
Bagatelle "Für Elise" in A minor, WoO 59
Bagatelle in C minor, WoO 52
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Siciliano in G minor (transcr. Wilhelm Kempff)
François Couperin (1668-1733):
Le Carrillon de Cithère
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Le Rappel des oiseaux (arr. by Wilhelm Kempff)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759):
The Harmonious Blacksmith


Wilhelm Kempff - piano

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Rameau – Les Indes Galantes - Suite – Frans Brüggen

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Les Indes Galantes - suite

Orchestra of the 18th Century [on period instruments]
Frans Brüggen - conductor

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Rameau – L'Orchestre de Louis XV-Suites d'Orchestre – Jordi Savall

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Orchestral Suites:

CD 1:
Les Indes galantes
Naïs

CD 2:
Zoroastre
Les Boréades

Le Concert des Nations [on period instruments]
Jordi Savall - conductor

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Corelli, Telemann, Rameau – Le Concert Spirituel – Jordi Savall

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713):
Concerto Grosso in D major, op.6 no.4
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767):
Overture and Suite in D major
Concerto in A minor
Overture and Suite in E minor "Tafelmusik"
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Les Indes Galantes. Suites des Airs à Jouer

Le Concert des Nations [on period instruments]
Jordi Savall - viola da gamba & direction

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Rameau – Les Indes Galantes – Christophe Rousset

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Les Indes Galantes

Christophe Rousset - harpsichord

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Rameau – Ouvertures – Rousset

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Ouvertures:
Les Fêtes de Polymnie
Les Indes Galantes
Zaïs
Castor et Pollux
Naïs
Platée
Les Talens Lyriques (Les Fêtes d'Hébé)
Zoroastre
Dardanus
Les Paladins
Hippolyte et Aricie
Le Temple de la Gloire
Pigmalion
Les Surprises de l'Amour - Prologue (Le Retour d'Astrée)
Les Fêtes de l'Hymen de l'Amour, ou Les Dieux d'Égypte
Les Surprises de l'Amour - Acte I (L'Enlèvement d'Adonis)
Acante et Céphise, ou La Sympathie

Les Talents Lyriques [on period instruments]
Christophe Rousset - conductor

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Rameau, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Dukas, Debussy, Ravel - Petrov

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1682-1764):
Cyclope
La Poule
Georges Bizet (1838-1875):
Nocturne No.1 in D major
Variations Chromatiques in C minor
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921):
Allegro Scherzando (arr. Bizet) from Piano Concerto No.2, op.22
Toccata (Étude No.6) in F major, op.111
Étude en forme d'une valse
Paul Dukas (1865-1935):
Variations, interlude et finale
Claude Debussy (1862-1918):
Images oubliées: Lente (mélancolique et simple)
Images oubliées: Réminiscences du Louvre
Images oubliées: Quelques aspects d'une mélodie "Nou n'irons plus ai bois"
Maurice Ravle (1875-1937):
Foxtrot "Cinq heures"

Nikolai Petrov - piano

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