Enescu / Jora / Lipatti / Silvestri / Wallfisch - Festival of Romanian Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In March 2026, Divine Art Records presents Cocteau from pianist Isabelle O'Connell, exploring the musical connections and artistic spirit of the multi-talented and influential French artist, filmmaker, novelist, and poet Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). Throughout his life, Cocteau worked with the legendary Ballets Russes, was involved with major art movements like Cubism and Surrealism, and was one of the most important avant-garde directors in cinema.Isabelle O'Connell's Cocteau is anchored by Irish composer Rhona Clarke's brand-new work Cocteau, written especially for O'Connell, and heard after the listener moves through Cocteau's contemporaries and collaborators in Paris a century ago Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, and members of Le Groupe des Six for whom Cocteau was a figurehead (Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre).The initial spark for this revealing new album came from conversations between Isabelle O'Connell and Rhona Clarke during the COVID pandemic. Rhona had developed a fascination with the work of Inchthis complete artist,Inch and Cocteau is a set of six short pieces inspired by his drawings, paying tribute to his Inchoverall aesthetic and personality, his quirkiness, modernism, sense of freedom, his mix of the sublime and the ridiculous.InchThe works by Satie include his Trois Gnossiennes and Trois Gymnopédies (available as digital-only tracks), epitomising qualities that Cocteau so admired - clarity, refinement, with minimal and spare textures. The album also features the Ragtime Parade from the surrealist ballet Parade, conceived by Cocteau for the Ballets Russes, and Rêverie de l'enfance de Pantagruel from his orchestrated work Trois petites pièces montées, originally composed for a concert Cocteau organised.The album further includes Stravinsky's Ragtime and Les Cinq Doigts, Darius Milhaud's Le

Music From Romania is the first in a reissue series of recordings from the 1960s and 70s. Album Tracks 1. Basama Banatu-I-Bine 2. Maruntel 3. Saint Peter's Ballad 4. Stranger's Doina 5. Song Melody on Trisca 6. Valeanca 7. Signal on Bucium 8. Leusteanca 9. Sheepherder's Doina 10. Doina from Oltenia 11. Doina from Olt 12. Love Song and Brîu 13. Joc Ardelenesc 14. Dance Melodies 15. Love Song 16. Geampara 17. Hai Buzau and Ciocîrlia

Album Tracks 1. Scherzo 2. Ballade for Piano 3. Prélude 4. Scherzo 5. Barcarolle in B-Flat Major 6. La Fileuse in D Major 7. Regrets in G-Flat Major 8. I. Prélude Grave 9. II. Fugue Allegro Moderato 10. III. Adagio 11. IV. Finale Presto 12. Impromptu in A-Flat Major 13. Impromptu in C Major 14. Modérément