Various Artists - Her Earliest RecordingsThough born in the USA, Aline van Barentzen (1897 1981) became the youngest student to be accepted by the Paris Conservatoire, aged nine, and went on to win a premier prix aged just twelve. She was to base herself in Paris for the rest of her life, later teaching at her alma mater where her pupils included Jean Philippe Collard and Cyprien Katsaris. A supreme virtuoso, as can be heard in her Brahms Paganini variations, she worked with many

devoted to the Forqueray family ('Choc' of the Year in Classica

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Debussy and Messiaen regarded Iberia as THE piano masterpiece of the twentieth century: 'One's eyes close

based on songs and dances from the medieval period

The player's ultimate goal was to astonish the listener and to demonstrate his own bravura

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Vitaly Margulis and Rudolf Kehrer among others

and Zhang Bei Xin (張蓓心)

Shirley Scott) and Vincent Herring

Kathryn Stott - Complete Nocturnes

Carmen has crafted an album without borders that transfixes it's listeners

and the Grammy Award winning Cuarteto Latinoamericáno