Various Artists - Paris - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya duo was the hub of guitar music in the 1950s and 60s Paris. The energy of this collaboration radiated throughout the music community, resulting in a multitude of new works for guitar duo. Stein-Erik Olsen and Egil Haugland are outstanding interpreters of the music from the golden age of the guitar. In 2009 Stein-Erik Olsen presented premier recordings of music for guitar duo written by Ida Presti, to great acclaim from reviewers world-wide. This project inspired him to go deeper into the music that was created as a direct result of the collaboration between Presti and her husband and duo-partner Lagoya. Stein-Erik Olsen finds the quality of these works quite special InchIt is simply masterpieces, all of it - without question among the best ever written for guitar duo. All the works on the album are written within the span of six years by composers who have their individual style and musical vocabulary. You immediately hear that these works are written for two equal performers with outstanding technical and musical abilities.Inch Liner notes by Graham Wade. Album Tracks 1. Toccata 2. Tonadilla 3. Sérénade Pour Deux Guitares 4. Prélude Et Fugue No. 4 en Mi Majeur 5. Sonatina Canonica Op. 196 6. Tarentelle

Album Tracks 1. Paris Conalle 2. La Mer 3. Mademoiselle de Paris 4. Autumn Leaves 5. Oh la la 6. Under the Roofs of Paris 7. Genevieve Galop 8. The World of Legrand 9. Tres Moutarde 10. Domino 11. French Pastry 12. Fascination 13. La Vie en Rose 14. If You Go Away 15. Montmartre 16. Sambre Et Meuse 17. Paris Medley (I Love Paris/What Now My Love) 18. Tales of Hoffman Barcarolle

This collection of piano works is a journey through the music that represents the years spanning the end of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. It is a varied itinerary, marked by that typically Parisian ésprit nouveau that captured the most diverse influences popular music, jazz, exoticism, quotes from popular tradition, songs, circus exhibitions. At that time in fact the divide between cultured and light music came down as new forms of entertainment blossomed, different from those proposed by the great institutions. Cradles of this change were the artistic cabarets, the cafés-concerts, the music halls, the tabarins, but also bistrots, taverns, bookshops, and all the places where intellectuals and artists met. This offers an historical playlist imbued with the mood of that time, alternating the energy and joie de vivre with more melancholic moods. For the centrality of his figure and the originality of his works, the fruit of a constant process of renewal, Erik Satie is present here with six works which represent several stages in his amazing creative parabola. Dario Müller has performed in concert for important institutions and has collaborated with Dynamic since 1984. Album Tracks 1. Deuxième Gymnopédie (Lent et triste) 2. Premières valses (Pas vite)~Valse No. 5 à l'ombre rêveuse de Chopin 3. Papillon (Scherzo) 4. Je te veux, valse (Moderato) 5. forains, ballet~Galop (Allegro vivo) 6. Moulin Rouge~Chanson du Moulin Rouge 7. Piccadilly, marche (Pas trop vite) 8. petit nègre (Allegro giusto) 9. enfant et les sortilèges~Five o'clock fox-trot 10. Descriptions automatiques~Sur un vaisseau 11. Descriptions automatiques~Sur une lanterne 12. Descriptions automatiques~Sur un casque 13. Valse (Assez vif) 14. Cocktail's dance Op. 33 bis (Allegro) 15. Piège de Méduse Quadrille; Valse; Pas vite; Mazurka; Un peu vif; Polka; Quadrille