Nicolas Horvath - Music for Piano XL - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Songs of Longing is the result of composer Felipe Tellez's intense work with TakeFive Ensemble. This recording features compositions that fuse Colombian folk music with Romantic era musical traditions of the West. Felipe's work possesses a wide range of emotions and style, moody and tender at times, and intensely rhythmic and playful when least expected. The music is brought to life by TakeFive Ensemble - comprised of violinists Lynn Kuo and Csaba Koczó, Carolyn Blackwell on viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron on cello, and Shoshana Telner on piano.

This third volume of Erik Satie's complete solo piano music using Satie scholar Robert Orledge's new Salabert Edition focuses on music composed between 1892-1897, including theatrical scores such as the revolutionary uspud, and the Danses gothiques and famous Vexations written while the composer was hiding from a tempestuous love affair. The period closes with Satie composing in what he called Incha more flexible and accessible way withthe final Gnossienne and the six Pieces froides.Inch Recognized at once as a great interpreter of Liszt's music, Nicolas Horvath became in recent years one of the most sought after pianists of his generation. Holder of a number of awards, like the First Prize of the Scriabin and the Luigi Nono International Competitions, he frequently organizes events and concerts of unusual length, sometimes over twelve hours, such as Philip Glass complete piano music or Erik Satie's Vexations.

Germaine Tailleferre is best known for being the only female member of the French group of composers known as Les Six, and her stylish combination of neo-Classicism with a ready wit and energy can be compared to Poulenc and Milhaud. From the captivating Romance written while still a student, to her sparkling music for the 1937 Paris international exhibition, all of these pieces show Tailleferre as being very much at the heart of the contemporary French musical scene. This recording, described by the composer's granddaughter as being 'as though Tailleferre herself was performing these works', is the first of three volumes presenting the complete piano music played by Nicolas Horvath.