Jules Massenet - Piano Music (Aldo Ciccolini)

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Composer: Jules Massenet

CD1:

• (01-03) Piano Concerto in E flat major
• (04) Deux pièces: 1. Papillons noirs: Allegro agitato molto
• (05) Deux pièces: 2. Papillons blancs: Allegro
• (06) Deux Impromptus: 1. Eau dormante: Lent et calme
• (07) Deux Impromptus: 2. Eau courante: Vite
• (08) Toccata in B flat major
• (09) Musique pour Bercer les petits enfants: Molto lento
• (10-19) Dix pièces de genre, Op. 10
• (20-26) Sept Improvisations

CD2:

• (01) Valse folle
• (02) Valse très lente
• (03) Devant la Madonne (souvenir de la campagne de Rome, nuit de Noël, 1864)
• (04-15) Année Passée, Books 1-4
• (16-21) Six danses
• (22-24) Trois marches
• (25) La Vierge, danse galiléenne
• (26-28) Première Suite, Op. 11
• (29-30) Deux berceuses

Aldo Ciccolini, piano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
Sylvain Cambreling, conductor (CD1 1-3)

Date: 1972-1979
Label: EMI

More info & reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Massenet-Piano-Music-Jules/dp/B0000CE7FS

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Jules Massenet (12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty, made him the leading composer of opera in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.. He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music. Massenet taught composition at the Paris Conservatoire from 1878 until 1896. Among his students were Gustave Charpentier, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn and Gabriel Pierné. Massenet's his operas are widely accepted as well-crafted and intelligent products of the Belle Époque.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Massenet

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Aldo Ciccolini (15 August 1925, Naples – 1 February 2015, Paris) was an Italian-French pianist. In 1949, he won the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris. He became a French citizen in 1969 and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1970-88, where his students included Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artur Pizarro and Nicholas Angelich. Ciccolini was a celebrated interpreter and advocate of the piano music of the French composers, and was also known for his having played the music of the Spanish composer. He made more than a hundred recordings for EMI-Pathé Marconi and other record companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Ciccolini

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