For a special friend really. But all may enjoy.

[Piano Track] Jules Massenet - Meditation [From The Opera Thaïs]

"Fidelio Op. 72 - Overture" by Ludwig van Beethoven

June Wu performs her debut recital at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris as part of Les Amateurs Virtuoses Festival de Piano 2015. June 3, 2015

Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S.514, Franz Liszt

F.Liszt: Études d'exécution transcendante No.4 ‘Mazeppa’ d-moll S.139-4 in Grosser Saal WuerzburgHfm

The final piece from Debussy's Suite Bergamasque. Passepied is a dance and Debussy's writing is delightful and delicate.

Debussy Suite Bergamasque 4 Passepied

Played on a Yamaha CF3s Grand Piano
Camille Saint-Saens - Le Carnaval Des Animaux(The Carnival of Animals) R.125.10 The Aviary -  Grand Fantasy Zoo (Orchestra)

Camille Saint Saens - Le Carnaval Des Animaux R.125.10 The Aviary -  Grand Fantasie Zoo (Orchestra)

Artur Pizarro performs Francis Poulenc’s Piano Concerto with Bamberger Symphoniker directed by Thomas Rösner, alongside Poulenc’s Sinfonietta and two rare, glittering gems from Charles Koechlin. This release is a coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Following the success of Artur Pizarro’s recordings of Rachmaninoff’s Complete Piano Music on Odradek, hailed in Gramophone as “courageous and poetic” and praised by BBC Music Magazine for his “dazzling finger dexterity”, the “poet amongst pianists” returns with Poulenc’s Piano Concerto. The last of Poulenc’s concertos, this work is jaunty and playful whilst exuding an irresistible Romanticism. Poulenc’s Sinfonietta is a full-scale symphony in all but name, its self-deprecating title a reflection of the composer’s sense of humour and the work’s colourful, urbane character. 

Charles Koechlin is best known for his vast orchestral Jungle Book cycle, but was a prolific composer of tone poems on an array of themes. Both Vers la voûte étoilée, Op. 129 and Sur les flots lointains, Op. 130 date from 1933, and both were published posthumously in 1996. Vers la voûte étoilée (‘Towards the vault of stars’) creates a sense of awe and mystery, reflecting Koechlin’s early ambition to become an astronomer. In the elegiac Sur les flots lointains (’On the distant waves’), Koechlin makes use of a melody composed by American composer, Catherine Murphy Urner.

The Bamberger Symphoniker has caught the world’s attention as an orchestra of depth and imagination, its BBC Proms 2019 performance praised in The Times as “stunning… idiomatic, impassioned, blazing with energy and power… virtuosically played, and enthrallingly pictorial.” The orchestra is directed on this album by the prolific and versatile Viennese conductor, Thomas Rösner.

05 - Francis Poulenc Piano Concerto In C - Sharp Minor FP 146 - 1. Allegretto

composed by G. Bizet
performed by ISO's Concert Orchestra conducted by Eric Dudley on May 7, 2012

Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne: Suite No. 2 (III. Menuet)

The InterSchool Orchestras of New York (ISO) provides a comprehensive youth orchestra program for students 6 to 19 in New York City based in seven graded orchestras and a symphonic band. ISO never turns away a child from any ensemble for lack of ability to pay tuition. It also reaches out to students in underserved communities, providing free music lessons and loan of an instrument when necessary to get them started in a life filled with music. Half of the students in our programs receive some degree of financial aid. There simply is no comparable organization in New York City.

Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne: Suite No. 2 (III. Menuet)

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