Lucile Richardot - La Comedie Humaine - Chansons balzaciennes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Prelude for Piano No. 25 in C Sharp minor, Op. 45, CT. 190 2. Ballade for Piano No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, CT. 2 3. Nocturne for Piano No. 3 in B Major, Op. 9/3, CT. 110 4. Ballade for Piano No. 3 in a Flat Major, Op. 47, CT. 4 5. Nocturne for Piano No. 1 in B Flat minor, Op. 9/1, CT. 108 6. Ballade for Piano No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38, CT. 3 7. Nocturne for Piano No. 2 in E Flat Major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109 8. Ballade for Piano No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52, CT. 5 9. Nocturne for Piano No. 20 in C Sharp minor, KK Iva/16, CT. 127 (B. 49)

The composer and soprano Liza Lehmann played a key role in revitalizing English song, writing several hundred vocal works. Acclaimed in concert halls around the world, she collaborated with the greatest musicians of her time and enjoyed a resounding success at the turn of the 20th century. Surrounded by distinguished performers, Lucile Richardot and Anne de Fornel invite us to discover some of her most beautiful pieces, including many previously unrecorded songs. Album Tracks 1. Lehmann Evensong 2. Lehmann The Lake Isle of Innisfree 3. Lehmann Dusk in the Valley 4. Lehmann Breton Folk-Songs No. 2 I Dreamt My Love Was Singing 5. Lehmann Echoes 6. Lehmann How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank 7. Lehmann In the Watches of the Night 8. Lehmann Morning 9. Lehmann A Bird in the Sky 10. Lehmann The Guardian Angel 11. Lehmann By the Lake 12. Lehmann You and I 13. Lehmann Good Morning, Brother Sunshine! 14. Lehmann The Daisy-Chain No. 4 If No One Ever Marries Me 15. Lehmann In a Persian Garden Ah! Moon of My Delight (Transc. for Violin and Piano By Liza Lehmann) 16. Lehmann In a Persian Garden No. 7 Ah! Not a Drop 17. Lehmann The Beautiful Lady 18. Lehmann The Silver Rose 19. Lehmann Oh, Tell Me, Nightingale 20. Lehmann The Lily of a Day 21. Lehmann Love, If You Knew the Light Love, If You Knew the Light 22. Lehmann When the Shadows Fall Tonight 23. Lehmann Thoughts Have Wings 24. Lehmann When I Am Dead, My Dearest

The great French pianist Roger Muraro joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Born in Lyon to Venetian parents, he was a pupil of Yvonne Loriod and is regarded as the leading specialist in the music of Olivier Messiaen, to which he has devoted much of his career. But this noted pedagogue, a former professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, is also renowned for his profound and sensitive approach to the music of Ravel, Chopin, Schumann - and Liszt, of whom he is particularly fond. He now presents a monumental masterwork by Liszt which is in his view a work of 'universal intimacy' 'I admire the freedom with which the evocations of the soul, of nature, of the colours of the masters of Italian painting unfold in succession. Everything Liszt saw during his pilgrimage to Switzerland and Italy contributed to a process of reflection, a journey, a quest to bring him closer to his ideal where silence became the ultimate authority.' Album Tracks 1. Première Année Suisse - S. 160 (1848-1855) 2. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell 3. Au Lac de Wallenstadt 4. Pastorale 5. Au Bord D'une Source 6. Orage 7. Vallée D'obermann 8. Eglogue 9. Le Mal Du Pays 10. Les Cloches de Genève 11. Deuxième Année Italie - S. 161 (1846-1849) 12. Sposalizio 13. Il Penseroso 14. Canzonetta Del Salvatore Rosa 15. Sonetto 47 Del Petrarca 16. Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca 17. Sonetto 123 Del Petrarca 18. Après Une Lecture Du Dante Fantasia Quasi Sonata 19. Supplément À la Deuxième Année Venezia E Napoli - S. 162 (1859) 20. Gondoliera 21. Canzone 22. Tarantella 23. Troisième Année - S. 163 (1867-1882) 24. Angelus! Prière Aux Anges Gardiens 25. Aux Cyprès de la Villa D'este I Thrénodie 26. Aux Cyprès de la Villa D'este II Thrénodie 27. Les Jeux D'eaux À la Villa D'este 28. Sun Lacrymae Rerum en Mode Hongrois 29. March Funèb