Le Po?te Du Piano - Tharaud - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Alexandre Tharaud is not just a poet of the piano, he is an intrepid musical explorer – as this three-album collection, Le Poète du Piano, demonstrates. “I feel as though I have played my life through my recordings,” he says. “Each one has constituted an important, if not fundamental step in my development as an artist.”

Over nearly 30 years his recordings have ranged wide: from masters of the baroque via the Classical, Romantic and Modern eras to cutting-edge composers of today … from pillars of the repertoire by composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninov to numbers by The Beach Boys and French chansonnière Barbara.

Le Poète du Piano complements recordings familiar from Tharaud’s extensive discography with a wealth of material that is new or previously unreleased. This includes some of the pianist’s own compositions, his transcriptions of orchestral works by Mahler and Debussy, and a rediscovered miniature by Poulenc.

“Music touches the essence of our being,” says Tharaud. “It connects us to distant, unconscious emotions that cause something to explode within us. When there is nothing more I can say, I go to the piano. It is my language. That is my reason for being a pianist.”

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Bach: Prelude In C From the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
2. Rameau: Les Sauvages
3. Chopin: Mazurka Op.63 No.3
4. Rachmaninov: Prelude Op.3 No.2
5. Rachmaninov: Elegie
6. Chabrier: Idylle
7. Gluck/Siloti: Ballet Des Ombres Heureuses From Orfeo Ed Euri
8. Mahler/Tharaud: Adagietto From Mahler's Symphony No.5
9. Scarlatti: Sonata In a Major Kk.208
10. Scarlatti: Sonata In D Makor Kk.29
11. Sibelius: Valse Triste Op.44 No.1
12. Ravel: Scarbo From Gaspard De La Nuit M.55
13. Chopin: Ballade No.2
14. Satie: Gymnopedie No.1
15. Bach/Siloti: Prelude In B Minor Bwv855a
16. Rameau: Le Rappel Des Oiseaux
17. Rameau: Tambourin
18. Bach: Aria From Goldberg Variations
19. Faure: Romance Sans Paroles No.3
20. Gershwin: the Man I Love

Disc 2

1. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 I. Moderato
2. Haydn: Piano Concerto No.11 In D Major Hob Xviii:11 Il Poco
3. Haydn: Piano Concerto No.11 In D Major Hob Xviii:11 Rondo Al
4. Bach: Adagio Bwv974
5. Ravel: Piano Concerto In G Major M.83 Iii. Presto (Live)
6. Poulenc: Piano Concerto In C Sharp Minor Fp.146 I. Allegrett
7. Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 In a Major K.488 I. Allegro (Li
8. Mozart: Rondo In a Major K.386
9. Mozart: Piano Concerto No.9 In E-Flat Major K.271 Jeunehomme
10. Bach: Concerto In a Minor For 4 Keyboards Bwv1065 Ii. Largo
11. Bach: Concerto In a Minor For 4 Keyboards Bwv1065 Iii. Alleg
12. Abrahamsen: Left Alone (2015) Part 1 - I. Very Fast (Live)

Disc 3

1. Mozart: Piano Sonata No.11 In a K331 Iii. Alla Turca: Allegr
2. Debussy/Tharaud: Prelude a L'apres-Midi D'un Faune L.87
3. Khatchaturian: Andantino Op.62 No.1 From Children's Album I
4. Grieg: Lyric Pieces Book Ii Op.38 No.7 Waltz. Valse
5. Grieg: Lyric Pieces Book Iii Op.43 No.1 Butterfly
6. Grieg: Lyric Pieces Book V Op.54 No.6 Bell Ringing
7. Wiener Histoires Sans Paroles No.9 Bucolique
8. Wiener Histoires Sans Paroles No.11 Blues
9. Morricone: Cinema Paradiso
10. Poulenc: Valse From Musiques De Soie
11. Tharaud: Corpus Volubilis - Sama
12. Tharaud: Corpus Volubilis - Rumba
13. Tharaud: Corpus Volubilis - Sicilienne
14. Tharaud: Corpus Volubilis - Avant-Deux
15. Tharaud: Corpus Volubilis - Faune
16. Tharaud: Corpus Volubilis - Pavane
17. Tharaud: Corpus Volubilis - Vaudou
18. Le Flem: Chants Des Genets - Entree Des Binious
19. Le Flem: Chants Des Genets - Vers Le Soir
20. Le Flem: Chants Des Genets - Autour D'un Conte
21. Le Flem: Chants Des Genets - Pour Bercer
22. Le Flem: Chants Des Genets - Ronde
23. Ladmirault: Valse Triste For 2 Pianos (With Eric Le Sage)
24. Barbara: J'ai Tue L'amour (With Dominique A)
25. Wiener Chansons De Charles Trenet: Mes Jeunes Annees
26. D'alessio: India Song
27. Tharaud: 2 Improv. On the Beach Boys - Barbara Ann
28. Tharaud: 2 Improv. On the Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
29. Mompou: Charmes Ii. Pour Penetrer Les Ames
30. Ravel: Prelude In a Minor M.65
31. Ravel: Miroirs M.43 I. Noctuelles

Label: Parlophone | Origin: Holland