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2022-05-02 06:36:44
Between 1982 and 1990, pianist Cécile Ousset recorded a number of discs for EMI (now Warner) that boosted her career’s international profile. All of Ousset’s Warner releases have now been boxed up and packaged in original jacket facsimiles. Since not all of the items may be familiar to collectors, a disc-by-disc evaluation seems appropriate: CD […]
2020-09-24 23:53:00
OperaWire.com: Q & A: Marlon Daniel on the Chevalier de Saint-Georges & Systematic Racism in Classical Music
[…] fan of PBS. I remember growing up watching Great Performances and Live from Lincoln Center. Unfortunately, there were not so many musicians of color on these shows. However, as a young pianist, I was inspired by pianist André Watts and conductor Paul Freeman. I studied at the North Shore Music School and the American Conservatory of Music but the turning point in my life was meeting French pianist Cécile Ousset. She advised me to leave Chicago. I wanted to go with her to France but was too young or too scared to travel to Europe. So, after graduating high school, I settled on New York and Manhattan School of Music. I did follow this dream later studying French language at the Sorbonne in Paris and piano at Fontainbleau with Gaby Casadesus. I discovered conducting in my last year at […]
2020-02-03 06:26:35
Before she came to international prominence as a recording artist under contract with EMI, pianist Cécile Ousset had a brief yet productive relationship with Decca’s French branch in the 1970s, yielding a series of excellent releases, all gathered together here for the first time in one place. They seem to be remastered from tape sources, […]
2018-02-25 22:00:00
Recent updates to previously posted music
[…] Ravel's Piano Music by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (2003) (a rip by Corrado D.)5/17/16 Musique Française #3 +1CD Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye & Prokofiev's Cinderella by piano duo Argerich & Pletnev5/17/16 Debussy #5 +1CD Préludes by Steven Osborne (2006)5/17/16 Debussy #5 +1CD Préludes Book 1 & Children's Corner by Nelson Freire (2009)5/17/16 Debussy #5 +1CD set, Préludes etc by Samson François (1970) (includes 5 Etudes)5/17/16 Debussy #5 +1CD Images, Pour le piano & Suite bergamasque by Cécile Ousset (1986)5/16/16 Summer Nights #8 +1CD set Brahms' Symphonies by Antal Dorati (a rip by Corrado D.)5/16/16 Brahms +2CDs Piano Quartets by J. Demus & the Barylli + Richter & the Borodin (2nd) (rips by Corrado D,)5/15/16 A Weimar Rhapsody +1CD Krenek Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 4 + G. Washington's Variations. (M. Korzhev, 2007)5/15/16 Musique Française #1 +1CD Koechlin and Jolivet's Chamber Music with Flute (Philippe Racine, 1989)5/13/16 Debussy #3 +1CD Jeux, Images, Prélude, […]
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