Alexandre Tharaud - Versailles (French baroque music) AEC Music often toe-tapping performances of Alen's

often toe-tapping performances of Alen's complete piano music written before the year 2000

to it's rugged and evocative mountains and countryside

his solo output for the instrument centers around the more Classical forms of the Suite variata (1978) and the Sonata (1984)

There was a long period of mourning

and featuring several stellar instrumental solos

Alexandre Tharaud - Versailles (French baroque music) AEC Music often toe-tapping performances of Alen'sWho but Alexandre Tharaud would follow an album devoted to Beethovens formidable final three piano sonatas with a recital of compact pieces by Lully, Rameau, Franois Couperin and other composers associated with the French court in the 17th and 18th centuries I've always been attracted by French music of this period, explains Tharaud, whose wide ranging Erato catalogue embraces Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Satie, the