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Special offer. Alexandre Tharaud - Le poète du piano

Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

Alexandre Tharaud - Le poète du piano

Special offer. Alexandre Tharaud - Le poète du piano

Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

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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. If a good half of this set is taken from Alexandre Tharaud’s published discography, the rest is made up by hitherto unreleased music. Some did not make it on to the album they were originally intended for, while others were recorded for fun at studio sessions over the years. “When you’re recording,” the pianist explains, “you’re always looking for the perfect take, where everything flows perfectly. But the pressure of the microphone doesn’t help... So sometimes, recording a piece unplanned allows you to rediscover that spontaneity”.

“Recording is as necessary to me as the air I breathe. One withdraws from the world for a brief while – an eternity –, examines a piece of music and is cross-examined by it in turn, then gives evidence before the microphones. It’s as if I’ve played out my life through my recordings, each one representing a significant, if not seminal, stage in my development as an artist.”

Contents and tracklist

Bach, J S: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude
Work length2:15
Rameau: Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Suite en sol: XIV. Les Sauvages
Work length2:04
Chopin: Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3
Work length2:36
Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor
Work length4:07
Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 1, Élégie
Work length5:11
Chabrier: 10 Pièces pittoresques: No. 6, Idylle
Work length3:28
Gluck: Gluck / Arr Siloti: Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 41, Act I: Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Work length3:14
Mahler: Mahler / Transcr. Tharaud: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor, Pt. 3: IV. Adagietto
Work length10:36
This work is only available as an album download.
Scarlatti, D: Scarlatti, D
Work length8:47
Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Kk. 208
Track length4:14
Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Kk. 29
Track length4:33
Sibelius: Valse Triste, Op. 44 No. 1
Work length4:06
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo
Work length9:40
Chopin: Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
Work length7:30
Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1
Work length3:50
Bach, J S: Clavier-Büchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: No. 18, Prelude in E Minor, BWV 855a (Arr. Siloti, Performed in B Minor)
Work length3:02
Rameau: Second livre de pièces de clavecin, Suite en mi
Work length4:02
V. Le Rappel des oiseaux
Track length2:51
VIII. Tambourin
Track length1:11
Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988: Aria
Work length2:03
Fauré: 3 Songs Without Words, Op. 17: No. 3, Andante moderato
Work length2:24
Gershwin: George Gershwin's Songbook: VIII. The Man I Love
Work length2:02
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18: I. Moderato
Work length11:00
This work is only available as an album download.
Excerpt,Haydn: Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D major, HobXVIII:11
Work length11:36
This work is only available as an album download.
11: II. Un poco adagio (Cadenza by Tharaud)
Track length7:24
11: III. Rondo all'Ungarese (Cadenza by Tharaud)
Track length4:12
Bach, J S: Bach, JS / Arr. Tharaud & Labadie: Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974: II. Adagio (After Marcello's Oboe Concerto)
Work length3:57
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: III. Presto (Live)
Work length4:11
Poulenc: Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, FP 146: I. Allegretto (Live)
Work length9:37
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: I. Allegro (Live)
Work length11:08
This work is only available as an album download.
Mozart: Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in A major, K386
Work length9:25
This work is only available as an album download.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat Major, K. 271 "Jeunehomme": III. Rondeau. Presto
Work length9:14
Excerpt,Bach, J S: Concerto for Four Keyboards in A minor (after Vivaldi), BWV1065
Work length5:45
II. Largo
Track length2:30
III. Allegro
Track length3:15
Abrahamsen: Left, Alone for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra: I. Very Fast (Live)
Work length2:36
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, Op. 6 No. 2, K. 331 "Alla Turca": III. Allegretto. Turkish March
Work length3:22
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Work length9:06
Khachaturian: Children's Album, Book I, Op. 62: No. 1, Andantino
Work length1:27
Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book II, Op. 38: No. 7, Waltz
Work length0:54
Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book III, Op. 43: No. 1, Butterfly
Work length1:35
Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book. V, Op. 54: No. 6, Bell Ringing
Work length4:28
Wiener: Histoires sans paroles
Work length2:15
No. 9, Bucolique
Track length1:30
No. 11, Blues
Track length0:45
Morricone, E: Cinema Paradiso
Work length2:10
Poulenc: Musiques de soie: Valse
Work length0:32
Alexandre Tharaud: Corpus volubilis
Work length12:30
No. 1, Sama
Track length2:29
No. 2, Rumba
Track length1:41
No. 3, Sicilienne
Track length2:26
No. 4, Avant-deux
Track length1:37
No. 5, Faune
Track length0:58
No. 6, Pavane
Track length2:00
No. 7, Vaudou
Track length1:19
Le Flem: Le Chant des genets
Work length10:13
No. 1, Entrée des binious
Track length1:38
No. 2, Vers le soir
Track length1:46
No. 3, Autour d'un conte
Track length3:23
No. 4, Pour bercer
Track length2:34
No. 5, Ronde
Track length0:52
Ladmirault: Valse triste for 2 Pianos
Work length5:41
Barbara: J'ai tué l'amour
Work length3:29
Wiener: 2 Chansons de Charles Trenet: No. 1, Mes jeunes années
Work length2:45
Carlos d'Alessio: India Song Improvisation
Work length3:45
Fred Fassert: Fassert / Transcr. Tharaud: Around the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann"
Work length2:11
Brian Wilson, Michael Love: Wilson, Love / Transcr. Tharaud: Around the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" for Three Pianos
Work length2:37
Mompou: Charmes: II. Pour pénétrer les âmes
Work length3:23
Ravel: Prélude in A minor, M.65
Work length1:18
Ravel: Miroirs, M. 43: I. Noctuelles
Work length4:53

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