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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete music for solo piano (Including Gaspard de la nuit; Valses nobles et sentimentales and Pavane pour une infante dafunte) Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] 'These are among the most distinguished Ravel performances on record.' Hi Fi News |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré : Après un rêve: a Fauré Recital, Volume 1 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "The pianist employs a wider range of dynamics to the music than others, and inflects the melodies with songful force. Lortie deftly mixes and matches original works with effective transcriptions of the composer's more familiar songs and orchestral f |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt at the Opera Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2013 ] In this new release, the exclusive Chandos artist and award-winning pianist Louis Lortie continues his exploration of piano works by Franz Liszt. His previous Liszt releases have been critically acclaimed, Gramophone describing his performance of the... |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol. 5 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] Louis Lortie's Chopin series is achieving landmark status, as confirmed by the increasingly enthusiastic reviews of progressive volumes. This fifth one sumptuously highlights the Polish influences in Chopin's music, offering gems from among the... |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol. 8 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] Louis Lortie's programme for this eighth and final volume of Chopin spans the composer's entire career, from the teenage Rondo, Op. 1 through to his final published piece, the Cello Sonata, Op. 65. |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie plays Chopin - Volume 1 [Nocturnes, Sonata, Scherzo] Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] "Lortie's musicianship is imaginative but never eccentric, with a technique that is always at the service of the music." BBC Music Magazine, July 2010 **** |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie plays Chopin Volume 2 Louis Lortie, piano [ Chandos / CD - released 26/Apr/2012 ] "an understated view of the composer, yet one that is fully cultivated and always convincing...not that Lortie is afraid of big expression, or lacking in virtuosity: his elegant playing always gets to the heart of the matter...a highly satisfying rec |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie plays Chopin Volume 3 Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] "Lortie is a model Chopinist: eloquent but never sentimental, elegant without ever sounding effete, dramatic but never exaggerated, harmonically luminous, structurally immaculate - and surprising." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Louis Lortie plays Chopin Volume 4 [Waltzes / Nocturnes] Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] "Louis Lortie's Chopin series reaches a new height with this utterly charming, idiomatic recital of the complete waltzes. Plus, he adds a handful of nocturnes, and the result is a jam-packed 83-minute CD." (MusicWeb) |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-32 (Complete on 9 CDs) Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / 9 CD Box Set - released 17/Nov/2010 ] "Nothing is forced or rushed, everything is subtly nuanced and phrased beneath an outwardly urbane surface...These are performances to treasure and revisit." (Gramophone) |
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LISZT
The complete Annees de Pelerinage Louis Lortie (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] "Louis Lortie's survey of the complete Années de Pèlerinage adds up to his finest Liszt playing on disc. The interpretations abound with new-found reserves of virtuosic flair and poetic sensitivity. Strongly recommended." (ClassicsToday June 2011) |
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FRANCK
Les Eolides / Symphonic Variations / Symphony in D minor Louis Lortie (piano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2001 ] "A logical-and beautifully performed-coupling" Gramophone |
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RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninoff: Piano Duets Louis Lortie (piano), Hélène Mercier (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] After more than twenty years since their last recording of piano duets on Chandos, Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier here come together again to perform works by Rachmaninoff. The Symphonic Dances was the last work to which Rachmaninoff gave an opus... |
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VINCENT D'INDY
Orchestral Works Volume 5 - Symphony on a French Mountain Song Op. 25 / etc Louis Lortie (piano) / Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2013 ] "Lortie is so sensitively attuned to a piano part whose sheer dexterity is partly offset only by its frequent self-effacement...Gamba yields very little to Andre Cluytens in terms of his identity with a work that is well deserving of revival." (IRR) |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 (with Schumann - Piano concerto) Louis Lortie (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Rarely has either concerto sounded as convincing or as passionate as here." (MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
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LISZT
Works for Piano and Orchestra (Includes Fantasia on a theme from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens & Piano Concertos 1 & 2) Louis Lortie (piano) / Residentie Orchestra The Hague / George Pehlivanian [ Chandos Classics / 3 CD - released 15/May/2006 ] "Interesting essays by Jeremy Siepmann and Beryl Chempin further enhance the value of the set which with superlative pianism, fine rapport between soloist and conductor, excellent orchestral playing and first class sound is a triumph for all... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music Louis Lortie (piano), Sarah Jeffrey (oboe), Teng Li (viola), Toronto Symphony Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] With this celebratory release completing his fourteen-year tenure as Music Director of the TSO, Peter Oundjian conducts an exquisite Vaughan Williams programme, supported by an all-Canadian cast of star soloists. |
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SCHUBERT
Piano Works (Incl Twelve Landler) Luba Edlina (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Nov/2000 ] 'Throughout the disc, she [Luba Edlina] comes across as a supremely sensitive artist whose exquisitely refined and tasteful playing is altruistically placed at the service of the music'. (International Piano Quarterly) |
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ALBERTO GINASTERA
Ginastera: Orchestral Works 1 Lucas Somoza Osterc (baritone) / BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Nov/2016 ] Impressive in our ongoing, very successful Spanish music series, the BBC Philharmonic and its chief conductor, Juanjo Mena, also explores the works of the Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera in three orchestral volumes. Not only acknowledged as a... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Acis and Galatea (complete opera) Lucy Crowe / Benjamin Hulett / Alan Clayton / Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn [ Chandos Chaconne SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] "Lucy Crowe as Galatea excels especially in turning words, and word-pictures, into sound…This is, altogether, a benchmark that will be hard to beat." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2019 Winner - Opera |