Chopin, Granados and Mompou

On this CD:

1. Scènes d'enfants for piano
Composed by Federico Mompou
Performed by Eugene Rowley

2. Goyescas (Guys in Love), 6 pieces in 2 books for piano, H. 64 No 1, Los Requiebros (Flattery)
Composed by Enrique Granados
Performed by Eugene Rowley

3. Allegro de concierto, for piano in C major, Op.46, H. 6
Composed by Enrique Granados
Performed by Eugene Rowley

4. Nocturne for piano in C sharp minor, KK Anh.Ia/6 (doubtful)
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Eugene Rowley

5. Barcarolle for piano in F sharp major, Op. 60, CT 6
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Eugene Rowley

6. Berceuse for piano in D flat major, Op. 57, CT 7
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Eugene Rowley

7. Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise for piano, Op. 22.
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Eugene Rowley

Tracks:

II: Andante - Stephen Hough
I: Adagio Sostenuto - Dame Moura Lympany
Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude (Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring) - Dame Moura Lympany
Nocturne No. 2 In E Flat - John Ogdon
Clair De Lune - Dame Moura Lympany
II: Adagio - Cecile Ousset
Tango - Dame Moura Lympany
Liebestraum No. 3 In A Flat - John Ogdon
Waltz No. 9 In A Flat - Dmitri Alexeev
Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - Cecile Ousset
Traumerei - Dame Moura Lympany
La Maja Y El Ruisenor - Magda Tagliaferro
Nocturne No. 5 In F-sharp Minor - Maurizio Pollini
Gymnopedie No. 1 - Aldo Ciccolini
Fur Elise - Dame Moura Lympany
Etude In E 'Tristesse' - John Ogdon
Fruhlingslied - Daniel Adni
II: Andante - Dmitri Alexeev

Tracks:

II: Adagio Cantabile - Walter Gieseking
II: Romanze - Annie Fischer
Aria - Maria Tipo
II: Romance (Larghetto) - Garrick Ohlsson
Granada - Gonzalo Soriano
Waltz No. 15 In A Flat - Maura Lympany
II: Largo - Andrei Gavrilov
An Den Fruhling - Daniel Adni
Nocturne No. 10 In A Flat - Daniel Adni
II: Adagio Un Poco Mosso - Walter Gieseking
La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin - Dame Moura Lympany
Cancons I Dansas No. 1 - Gonzalo Soriano
II: Adagio Sostenuto (Opening) - Cecile Ousset
Prelude No. 15 In D Flat 'Raindrop' - Dmitri Alexeev
Gnossienne No. 1 - Aldo Ciccolini
Berceuse - Jean-Philippe Collard
Minuet In G - Dame Moura Lympany
Berceuse In D Flat - Peter Donohoe

Customer Reviews:

something to have.......2007-03-14

These CD's are filled with all the awesome relaxing songs for the evening when you need it. It is just one of those must have items in your CD collection.

Excellent Music.......2007-02-19

This album was a "try and see" purchase but I love it. It makes great dinner music, great music to drift off to sleep with, or just nice background filler during social events needing a softer tone. It is not all solo piano music if that s what you are after; the other instruments blend very well however and don't challenge the piano playing. It is a piano album after all!

buy now.......2006-09-01

Want to know why I think the piano is the best musical instrument ever invented? Because no matter how the piano is played, it will always sound good. Whether the music is fast, slow, quiet or loud, it ALWAYS delivers with an appealing sound. This is something you need to buy.

Lovely.......2006-02-22

This is a beautiful calming cd. The playing is excellent and the pieces are well chosen.

Aesthetically Pleasing.......2005-09-14

I simply love piano music. If you're looking to relax, enjoy a peaceful time, then you must check out this album. If you truly enjoy piano music, this album is by far one of the best you can purchase.

As it says....it is the "Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever..." Well, I haven't listened to all piano albums in the world, but I don't need to, this one is just perfect for me, and I think you will agree!

I would say the pianists' are extremely accomplished. At times, I would admit-it's a bit 'spine tingling'!

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The Art of Alicia de Larrocha
A feast for piano lovers!

The Art of Alicia de Larrocha

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

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General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00008Y4IN
Release Date: 2003-06-10

Customer Reviews:

The Art of Alicia de Larrocha.......2007-01-04

Alicia de Larrocha is probably the finest interpreter of Spanish Piano music.The Art of Alicia de Larrocha is a collection of recordings performed by the artist over many years.There are 7 CD's in total. Each Cd cover has a beautiful picture of Ms de Larrocha at different times in her performing career. An excellent example of her versatility, from Bach to Manuel De Falla,her musicality and clean technique are characteristic of her playing,well brought out by the recording process.
The sound quality is excellent.
A special delight are some rarely heard pieces like a Soler Sonata, an Sonatina by Montsalvatge and a Prelude by Mompou.
Very inspiring to pianists. I strongly recommend it!

A feast for piano lovers!.......2003-12-29

Alicia de Larrocha has always been one of my very favorite pianists, and while I was a student during the 1970s and early 1980s I eagerly snatched up each of her recordings as soon it arrived on the shelves. In the long twilight of her illustrious career, Se?ora de Larrocha has tended to concentrate on playing Mozart concertos and sonatas in public, music which demonstrates her sterling musicianship and tone without over-taxing her technique in a major way. Many people who have only heard her in this repertoire might not be prepared for the grandeur and sweep of her virtuoso accounts of big Romantic pieces, such as the Liszt Sonata, and Schumann and Chopin, all of which are represented here. The technique is big, the tone glorious, the musical interpretations impeccable, she has it all in spades. I am so happy to have her lovely account of the Chopin F Minor Concerto back in the catalog, as well as her colorful romp through the Khachaturian Concerto.

If you love great piano playing and you love Alicia de Larrocha, do not hesitate for a minute. Buy this box set while it is still available.

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COMPULSIVE

Michelangeli Recital

Manufacturer: Classica D'oro
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Mazurkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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Ravel/Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 12 & No. 4; Debussy: Hommage à Rameau; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Michelangeli Plays Grieg & Debussy

ASIN: B00005B1H0
Release Date: 2001-05-01

Customer Reviews:

COMPULSIVE.......2002-04-05

Once bitten with the Michelangeli bug you stay bitten ever after.
These performances are from 1939-1942 when he was hardly more than a boy (born 1920). The recorded quality is not bad for its age, but it rules out a 5* rating, especially in the Chopin waltz, where there is a really weird background effect like somebody gargling. Michelangeli-collectors will not be put off by that, nor by the rather short measure the disc offers -- it would have been short for an LP let alone a CD. Music-lovers completely fresh to the work of this unique artist would probably be well advised to start with something in better sound, but I would not say that this disc is exclusively for collectors. You can still get a surprisingly good impression of that utterly unique tone-quality, even in Reflets dans l'Eau. Michelangeli's Debussy is very individual indeed, highly coloured, big in tone and about as unlike Gieseking or Richter as could well be. You would know who was playing immediately from the Albeniz Malaguena that starts the disc, and you will hear a marvellous bit of smouldering moroseness in the Granados Andaluza. The biggest item here is Chopin's B flat minor scherzo,
and M's great reading is quite similar to the studio recording he
made many years later. The end of the piece epitomises for me one aspect of his playing -- fast, tense, rhythmic, exciting, but not a hair out of place. The last note is the familiar high treble chord as I know it from the other two versions I have (Horowitz, Richter), not the unusual variant that he gives in the studio recording, an octave B flat in the bass played in quite phenomenally exact time. Unless you are a complete play-safer or sound-quality connoisseur I can recommend this wholeheartedly, certainly at the price.

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Victoria de Los Angeles: Tokyo Live '86

Manufacturer: Camerata
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000FDCG
Release Date: 1998-11-24

Tracks:

Applause
Gedichte der Konigen Maria Stuart Op. 135: L'Adieu ala France Op. 135 No. 1
Gedichte der Konigen Maria Stuart Op. 135: Apres la naissance de son Fils Op.135 No. 1
Gedichte der Konigen Maria Stuart Op. 135: A la Reine Elisabeth Op. 135 No. 3
Gedichte der Konigen Maria Stuart Op. 135: L' Adieu au Monde Op. 135 No. 5
Gedichte der Konigen Maria Stuart Op. 135: Priere Op. 135 No. 2
Gesang 'Was ist Silvia,sagent an' Op. 106, No. 4 , D. 891
Wiegenlied Op. 98, No. 2, D. 498
Standchen Op. 129, No. 4, D.957
Am Tage aller Seelen D. 343
Seligkeit 'Minnelied'
Pierscien
Zyczenie
Dien blaues Auge Op. 59, No. 1
Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op. 105, No. 1
Auf Flugeln des Gesanges Op. 34, No. 2
Damunt de tu nomes les flors
La maja de Goya
Callejeo
Cancion de cuna para domir a un negrito
Punto de habanera
Chants Populaires Espagnols: Pano Murciano
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Seguidilla Murciana
Siete Canciones populares espanolas: Polo
El Tripili
Pres des remparts de Seville
Adios Granada
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Granados Spanish Dance No. 5 & Other Piano Masterpieces

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Granados Spanish Dance No. 5 & Other Piano Masterpieces

Manufacturer: Valois
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000003I1G
Release Date: 1997-02-10

Tracks:

Danse Espagnole Op.37, No5
Cancon I Dansa
Toccata Op.7 in c
Arabesque Op.18 in C
Nocturne No.3 in a flat
Feux Follets
Grande Polonaise Brillante Op.22 in E flat
Nocturne Op.15, No.2 in F#
Prld, Op.3 No.2 in c#

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My First Record

Manufacturer: Enterprise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Mazurkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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Classical | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005QDEM
Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

Danza Espanola, Op.37 No.5 'Andaluza'
Fantasque
Scherzo in b flat, Op.31 No.2
Mazurka in a, No.47 Op.68 No.2
Waltzer in A flat, Op.69 No.1
Lyric Pieces: Melancolie, Op.47 No.5
Lyric Pieces: Au Berceau, Op.68 No.5
Son in d, L.413 'Pastorale' K.9
Son in c, L.352, K.11
Recuerdos De Viaje, Op.71 No.8: Malaguena
Cancion Y Danza No.1
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: I. Allegretto Con Brio
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: II. Adagio
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: III. Scherzo
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: IV. Allegro Assai
Images I, No.1: Reflets Dans L'eau
Son in B flat: Presto

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Chopin, Granados and Mompou

Manufacturer: Empire Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: The Complete Recordings

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: The Complete Recordings

Manufacturer: Enterprise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Mazurkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000003UCR
Release Date: 1997-12-30

Tracks:

Con Italiano, BWV971: I. Allegro
Con Italiano, BWV971: II. Andante
Con Italiano, BWV971: III. Presto
Mazurka in b, Op.33 No.4
Berceuse in D flat, Op.57
Son in D, L.465
Son in b, L.449
Con in a, Op.16: I. Allegro Molto Moderato
Con in a, Op.16: II. Adagio
Con in a, Op.16: III. Allegro Moderato Molto Marcato

Tracks:

Con in a, Op.54: I. Allegro Affettuoso
Con in a, Op.54: II. Intermezzo. Andantino Grazioso
Con in a, Op.54: III. Allegro Vivace
'Lyric Pieces,' Op.43: Erotik, No.5
Allegro
Con No.1 in E flat, S124: I. Allegro Maestoso (Fragment)
Con No.1 in E flat, S124: II. Quasi Adagio. Allegro Vivace. Allegro Animato
Con No.1 in E flat, S124: III. Allegro Marziale Animato
Con in a, Op.16: I. Allegro Molto Moderato (Fragment)
Con in b: III. Allegro
Con No.5 in E flat 'Emperor': I. Allegro (Fragment)

Tracks:

Danzas Espanolas, Op.37: No.5 'Andaluza'
Lyric Pieces: 'Melancolie' Op.47 No.5
Lyric Pieces: 'Au Berceau' Op.68 No.5
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: I. Allegretto Con Brio
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: II. Adagio
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: III. Scherzo
Son No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3: IV. Allegro Assai
Recuerdos De Viaje, Op.71: No.8 'Malaguena'
Cancion Y Danza No.1
Son in d, L.413 'Pastorale'
Son in c, L.352

Tracks:

Con No.15 in B flat, KV 450: I. Allegro
Con No.15 in B flat, KV 450: II. Andante
Con No.15 in B flat, KV 450: III. Allegro
Presto in B flat
Scherzo in b flat, Op.31 No.2
Mazurka No.47 in a, Op.68 No.2
Walzer in A flat, Op.69 No.1
'Images': Reflets Dans L'Eau
Fantasque

Rafael Orozco - Favourite Encores - Schumann: Toccata Op. 7; Arabesque Op. 18 / Liszt: Feux follets; Nocturne No. 3 / Chopin: Grande Polonaise brillante Op. 22; Nocturne Op. 15 No. 2 / Granados: Danse espagnole Op. 37 No. 5 / Mompou: Cancon i Dansa / Rachmaninov: Prelude Op. 3 No. 2

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Rafael Orozco - Favourite Encores - Schumann: Toccata Op. 7; Arabesque Op. 18 / Liszt: Feux follets; Nocturne No. 3 / Chopin: Grande Polonaise brillante Op. 22; Nocturne Op. 15 No. 2 / Granados: Danse espagnole Op. 37 No. 5 / Mompou: Cancon i Dansa / Rachmaninov: Prelude Op. 3 No. 2
Rafael Orozco , Robert Schumann , and Frederic Mompou
Manufacturer: Valois
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008FYPC
Release Date: 1994-03-01

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