Paul-Marie Verlaine

François-René Duchable

Sophie Marin-Degor

Jean-Sébastien Bou

Bordes: Mélodies - Oeuvres pour piano

Chopin Polonaises

Liszt : Piano works

Orchestre National Du Capitole De Toulouse

Michel Plasson

Ravel Concertos pour piano

Paul Meyer

Gérard Caussé

長野健

Bruch : Works for Clarinet & Viola  -  Apex

Brahms : Clarinet Sonatas & Weber : Grand duo concertant

Liszt : Piano Sonata, 2 Légendes & Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

Marielle Nordmann

Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg

Orchestre d'Auvergne

Harp Concertos

Liszt: Études d'exécution transcendante & Légendes

Theodor Guschlbauer

Boris Berezovsky

Eliahu Inbal

Rachmaninov : Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3  -  Apex

Poulenc : Piano Concertos & Aubade

Brahms: Paganini Variations, Op. 35, Intermezzi, Op. 117 & Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Jean Philippe Collard

James Conlon

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 "Funeral March" & 3

Frédéric Lodéon

Chopin: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, Grand Duo concertant & Introduction et Grande Polonaise

Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & 25

Saint-Saëns: Études, Op. 52 & 111

This reissue of classic 1969-1970 recordings offers indisputable proof that Arrau is one of the greatest Lisztians of them all. The centerpiece is his grandly rhetorical view of the B Minor Sonata, where his huge, bronze-tinged tone, echt-Romantic phrasing, and searching philosophizing take us where few pianists can, or dare, go. Arrau's spiritual quest matches Liszt's in a work that's often played as a series of virtuoso effects. Virtuosity is here in spades, but it's in the service of the music's meaning. The same applies to the rest of the program. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude often comes off as dull and overlong, but Arrau has you hanging on every phrase, so full of meaning does he make it. Vallée d'Obermann becomes a fascinating exploration of keyboard color and narrative tension, and the two etudes are invested with an unsurpassed abundance of tonal color and meaningful phrasing. Liszt recitals don't come any better than this.


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