ERIC SATIE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Les Inspirations insolites Eric Satie Aldo Ciccolini, Michel Legrand, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mady Mesple, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, etc [ Erato / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1990 ] The music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) remains as provocative, delightful - and surprising - as ever. These 2 CDs, featuring artists with impeccable credentials in French repertoire, draw together more unusual and rarely recorded repertoire. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lesley Garrett - Travelling LIght Lesley Garrett (soprano) with Bryn Terfel, Evelyn Glennie, Michael Ball & Michel Legrand [ EMI / BBC / CD - released 17/Mar/2001 ] Travelling Light is a 2001 by British soprano singer Lesley Garrett. It reached 75 on the UK general album chart. In the US it was released in February 2002. |
MICHEL LEGRAND / JACQUES DEMY
Legrand: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) BLU-RAY Châtelet Theatre, Paris / Marie Oppert, Natalie Dessay, Vincent Niclo, Laurent Naouri / Michel Legrand (cond) [ Warner Erato Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/May/2015 ] Recorded live at Paris' Châtelet Theatre in Autumn 2014, this is a magical stage adaptation of Jacques Demy's iconic 1964 film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). Michel Legrand conducts a 75-piece symphony orchestra in his own... |
NANCARROW / GERSHWIN / BEACH / JOPLIN / BERNSTEIN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Four Piano Blues - American Piano Music Michel Legrand (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 24/Feb/1994 ] Legrand composed more than two hundred film and television scores. He won three Oscars and five Grammys. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris from age 11, working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger and graduated with top honors as both a... |
Michel Legrand
The Music of Michael Legrand [ Silva Screen / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] Michel Legrand revisits some of his greatest work including The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, The Young Girls Of Rochefort, The Summer Of 42, The Thomas Crown Affair and Yentl. |
Soundtrack (Michel Legrand)
The Thomas Crown Affair (Deluxe Edition) [ RYKO / MGM / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] One of the most sophisticated pop-jazz soundtracks of the 1960s -- a decade filled with entries in that genre -- The Thomas Crown Affair was pretty much driven, for sales purposes, by its seductive opening track, Noel Harrison's rendition of "The... |
ERIC SATIE
Tout Satie! (10 CD Complete Edition) Aldo Ciccolini, Michel Legrand, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mady Mesple, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, etc [ Erato / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] A collection of unrivalled completeness, Tout Satie proves that the music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) remains as provocative, delightful - and surprising - as ever. These 10 CDs, featuring artists with impeccable credentials in French repertoire, draw... |
Laura Fygi & Michel Legrand
Watch What Happens When Laura Fygi Meets Michel Legrand [ Mercury Records / CD ] European Import. A very nice "mood" disc. |
MICHEL LEGRAND
Entre elle et lui: Natalie Dessay Sings Michel Legrand Natalie Dessay (soprano), Michel Legrand (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Treat yourself or a needy Francophile to this delicious if unlikely combination...She is breathy, sexy, passionate and wonderfully virtuosic in the tongue-twisting Chanson de Delphine...And Windmills of Your Mind sounds so much better in French |
BACH / HANDEL / DELIBES / MONTEVERDI / VERDI / MOZART / etc
Natalie Dessay: De l'Opéra à la chanson Natalie Dessay (soprano) / with Michel Legrand, Roberto Alagna, Rolando Villazon, Veronique Gens, Quatuor Ebene, Emmanuelle Haim, William Christie, et [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2017 ] This new collection showcasing 20 years of recordings from this most versatile of artists including classical, opera and songs from musicals - includes previously unreleased track "Bebe". |