Various Artists - Maitres Du PianoAlpha continues to explore it's catalogue and this year again offers a wide variety of combinations. After a box assembling the gems of the Baroque era (Masters of the Baroque Alpha 372), the piano is now given pride of place. The box set Masters of the Piano brings together 10 albums in which great contemporary interpreters (Nelson Goerner, Alexander Lonquich, Franois Frdric Guy, Eric Le Sage, Edna Stern, Anna Vinnitskaya) retrace three centuries of

even with a certain 'groove'

A series of buzzing EPs-tobi lou and the Moon

though records like "Whole Lotta Nothing

"Perhaps a certain kind of self-criticism and long experience culminate in these latest albums

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the air de cour was truly the emblematic genre of French secular music

and only then

encompassing both studio and 'live' recordings as she recorded first for the Bethlehem label and then for Colpix

Three other world premiere recordings of works by Serebrier are also included: If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking for Horn

Art Tatum is the one who is most often cited by the great pianists of the post-war era as a key influence and inspiration

she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme

but the changes it made to the countries involved were staggering