Various Artists - & Love Said - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In November 1949, at the age of eight, Idil Biret entered the studios of ORTF (Radiodiffusion Television Francaise) in Paris and made her first recordings; these were works by Couperin, Bach, Beethoven and Debussy. In the following decades she made nearly 100 LPs and CDs, released on ten record labels (Pretoria, Vega, Decca, Atlantic/Finnadar, Pantheon, EMI, Naxos, Marco Polo, Alpha, BMP) and many recordings for radio and television stations around the world. These included the complete piano works of Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninoff as well as the Sonatas of Boulez and the Etudes of Ligeti. The Idil Biret Archive (IBA) is now bringing together her past and present recording; as the copyrights are obtained, old recordings no longer available commercially are being released together with her new recordings. The transcriptions by Liszt of Beethoven's Symphonies, originally recorded for EMI, and the newly recorded 32 Sonatas and all the Piano Concertos of Beethoven were released by IBA and also made available in a box set. All the Piano Concertos of Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Grieg and the nine LPs recorded for Atlantic/Finnadar in New York which include works by Boulez, Webern, Berg, Ravel and Stravinsky were also released. Among the recent new releases are Liszt's Etudes and the piano transcription of Berlioz's Harold en Italie, Schumann's Carnaval, Fantasie and other works, all five Piano Concertos of Hindemith and, in the Archive Edition, the early LPs made in France for Pretoria (Schumann, Brahms), Vega (Bartok, Prokofiev, Brahms, Beethoven) and Decca (Rachmaninoff). IBA is distributed worldwide by Naxos. Album Tracks 1. Miroirs~Noctuelles 2. Miroirs~Oiseaux tristes 3. Miroirs~Une barque sur l'océan 4. Miroirs~Alborada del gracioso 5. Miroirs~La vallée des cloches 6. Valse 7. Tombeau de Couperin~Prélude 8. Tombeau de Couperin~Fugue 9. Tomb

Love! Is all about love. About love in the period from the 17th century to the 21st, via Russia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Germany, to England and the United States. About passionate love, motherly love, forbidden love and love lost. There is a love dance and much more. But Love! Is also about us, about our love for music and the unique combination formed by our instruments. Because the orchestral possibilities and the specifically melancholy tone color of the accordion form a magnificent blend with the scintillating and sonorous sound of the violin. This is the second on Challenge Classics by the unique duo of accordionist Marieke Hopman and violinist Cecile Hujnen. Album Tracks 1. Romeo & Juliet~Montagues & Capulets 2. Romeo & Juliet~Dance of the Girls 3. Romeo & Juliet~Mask Dance 4. Romeo & Juliet~From Death of Juliet 5. Chanson Russe 6. Tango 7. Ave Maria 8. From 'The Gipsy Songs' Op. 55 No. 4 Songs My Mother Taught Me 9. Summertime 10. All the Things You Are, Are Mine 11. Man I Love 12. So in Love 13. Sonata for violin & continuo No. 3 in D minor~Imitazione delle Campane 14. Candybox 15. Turks Fruit~Suite 16. Salut d'Amour, Op. 12

Album Tracks 1. Three Swans 2. Gymnopedie No.1 3. Salut D'amour 4. I've Got a Crush on You 5. Meditation (Thais) 6. L'acrimoso Concerto RV 271 - Allegro 7. Lied Ohne Worte, Op.109 (Song Without Words) 8. Slavonic Dances - Danse No.10 in E minor 9. Two Piano Concerto - Andante Non Troppo E Con Molto Espressione 10. Valse Op.34 No.2 11. Liebesteid 12. Summertime