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World premiere recordings as well as relaxing favourites (including the famous Gymnopedie No. 1) from France's chicest, quirkiest composer. Alexandre Tharaud is renowned as an expert in French chamber music. Features acclaimed violinist Isabelle Faust. 
Marvelous pianist Alexandre Tharaud keeps turning out jewel after jewel of recorded music, not all of it French, there is remarkable Bach, delightful Chopin and quite beautiful Schubert. Now he gives us an ample selection of Satie: the first disc solo music, anchored by the 3 Gnosiennes, clean and pure, and the second of collaborations: some two-piano works with Eric LePage, chansons.... not with operatic voices as one normally hears (in the past Jessye Norman has been good at this) but, more properly, with the likes of chanteuse Juliette, who one realizes quickly has the "right" kind of voice for this music. There is a wide selection of music, some of it well-known, most of it not.