INITIALES / Alexandre Tharaud: "Voyage en France" - Ravel, Satie

Debussy, Claude, Dutilleux, Henri, Françaix, Jean, Honegger, Arthur, Messiaen, Olivier, Poulenc, Francis, Ravel, Maurice, Saint-Saëns, Camille, Satie, Erik

Bernold, Philippe, Spaendonck, Ronald van, Tharaud, Alexandre

HMX 2908450.51

The `INITIALES' series is an invitation to discover the artists of harmonia mundi. Of course there is no need to present Alexandre Tharaud, whose `Baroque' trilogy (Rameau, Bach, Couperin) has delighted piano and harpsichord lovers all over the world; but this double album of French music gives you an opportunity to appreciate another facet of his talent, whether in solo pieces by Ravel and Satie (Gnossienes, Gymnopedies) or duetting with two of his regular partners, Ronald Van Spaendonck and Philippe Bernold.

Works:

• Debussy: Petite Pièce pour Clarinette et Piano
• Debussy: Première rhapsodie, L.116
• Dutilleux: Sonatine for flute & piano
• Françaix: Tema con variazioni for clarinet & piano
• Honegger: Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H 42
• Messiaen: Le Merle noir for flute and piano
• Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184
• Ravel: A la manière de Borodine
• Ravel: A la manière de Chabrier
• Ravel: Jeux d'eau
• Ravel: La parade
• Ravel: Menuet antique
• Ravel: Menuet in C sharp minor
• Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn
• Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
• Ravel: Sérénade grotesque
• Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
• Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op. 167
• Satie: Avant Dernières Pensées (Idylle, Aubade, Méditation)
• Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1
• Satie: Six Gnossiennes

CD x 2

Harmonia Mundi

8/17/11

3149020845042