MIRARE

From one recording to the next, Claire D?sert pursues her exploration of Schumann's catalogue. Focussing on the variation genre, this program reveals the manifold, elusive moods, like a diary of the...

This fantasy world is a program designed as a mirror, which is held up to our daily surroundings and where puzzling poetry abounds, creating a world simultaneously characterized by legends,...

Duval,Irene Poemes: Works By Poulenc / Szymanowski / Chausson CD1. I. Allegro Con Fuoco 2. II. Intermezzo 3. III. Presto Tragico 4. La Fontaine D'arethuse (Extract) 5. Po?me, Op. 25 6. I. Allegro...

Chopin's 24 Pr?ludes, unlike those of Bach, do not precede either fugue or sung chorale. The term underlines the modesty of these short, simply shaped pieces. But these pieces prelude each other,...

From the mid-seventeenth century to the first two decades of the eighteenth century, Rome experienced one of the most brilliant musical periods in it's history. In this recording, the Ensemble...

How is viola da gamba literature hidden in keyboard music during the reign of Louis XIV in France? R?cit, Salom? Gasselin's first album, explores this forgotten practice at a time when the viola da...

Geister Duo take their name from Robert Schumann's last piano work, the Geistervariationen, whose theme Brahms, a close friend of the Schumanns, used to compose his own Variations Op.23 for piano...

The first half of the twentieth century marks the birth of three masterpieces for violin and piano, each bearing the traits of it's author and echoing the thriving creativity of the time. Aylen...

A Russian rural scenery narrated by a bard, characters present in traditional Hungarian songs, folk tunes from Bucovina whose enigmatic titles and melodic evanescence nevertheless leave a lasting...

Was the golden age of the piano that of a defeat for female composers? If they occupied an important place in ancient and baroque music, the bourgeois society which emerged from the Enlightenment...

According to pianist Nathana?l Gouin, there is in caprice a form of liberty devoid of heaviness. The fact that so many composers have taken an interest in this genre indicates a genuine liking for...

Joseph Haydn's piano trios are among his lesser-known masterpieces. The four recorded here (two with flute, two with violin) were written between 1784 and 1790, during the composer's last years in...