French Impressions - A Potpourri Of French Piano S
) | Label: GRAND PIANO Catalog: GP900X Format: COMPACT DISC Burleson, Geoffrey; Armengaud, Jean-Pierre; Azoulay, Florient; Cheng, Yau; Naoumoff, Émile; Reyes, Eliane; Horvath, NicolasThe range and variety of French piano music in the 19th and 20th centuries is exemplified in these critically acclaimed albums bringing together rarely encountered pieces, a number of which are performed on period instruments. Théodore Gouvy’s little-known sonatas and Benjamin Godard’s fragrant lyricism are part of a lineage that includes the masterful large-scale Piano Sonata of Vincent d’Indy, the virtuosic rarities – many in première recordings – of Saint-Saëns, Satie’s tenderness and wit, and unknown piano versions of some of Debussy’s greatest orchestral masterpieces.  Price: $73.98 |