Gabriel Fauré
4) Yuja Wang
8) Beau soir
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For her first recital recording, Janine Jansen has chosen a program of French music performed with celebrated pianist Itamar Golan. Along with popular classics from Faure and Debussy, this disc includes three new works by Richard Dubugnon.
"Night time is the right time for Jansen and Golan on a beautifully played disc."--Gramophone.
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Monsieur Ladmiral is a widowed painter in his twilight years who welcomes his bourgeois son Gonzague and free-spirited daughter Irene and their families to his home for a lazy afternoon lunch. Over the course of the day buried resentments come to the surface. The passage of time has left no family member unscathed. Set in the 1910s in France.
11) Douce France
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A loving tribute to French Song, by one of the greatest voices. With exceptional sensibility and understanding of the French language, the renowned Swedish singer pays a loving homage to French melody and song. Known for her artistic journeys which transcend the borders of musical genre, Anne Sofie von Otter's collaborations include those with Elvis Costello and Brad Mehldau, with whom she recorded her Love Songs album on Naïve. Anne Sofie von Otter...
13) The silver album
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Alice Coote is the darling of the world's opera stages and recital halls. Her solo recordings are rare events. In this much-anticipated French songbook, Graham Johnson lends his incomparable insight to this most remarkable of talents on an emotional roller coaster through twenty-three songs of Gallic love in all its guises.