Monique Haas: Milestones of a Legend | Documents 600380

Monique Haas: Milestones of a Legend

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Label: Documents

Cat No: 600380

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 31st March 2017

Contents

Artists

Monique Haas (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductors

Charles Munch
Paul Paray
Ferdinand Leitner

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Italian Concerto, BWV971
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV1052

Bartok, Bela

Piano Concerto no.3, BB127, Sz119
Sonatina, BB69 Sz55

Chopin, Frederic

Etudes (12), op.10
» no.3 in E major 'Tristesse'
» no.5 in G flat major 'Black Key Study'

Debussy, Claude

Etudes pour piano (6), Book 1
Etudes pour piano (6), Book 2
Pour le piano
» III Toccata
Preludes (12), Book 1
Preludes (12), Book 2
» no.12 Feux d'artifice

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Arietta con 12 variazioni in E flat major, Hob.XVII:3
Piano Sonata no.38 in F major, Hob.XVI:23
Piano Sonata no.62 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:52

Hindemith, Paul

Konzertmusik for Mrs Elizabeth Coolidge, op.49

Mihalovici, Marcel

Ricercari, op.46
Violin Sonata no.2, op.45

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Piano Concerto no.14 in E flat major, K449
Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'
Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K488
Sonata for 2 pianos in D major, K448
Sonata for piano duet in B flat major, K358
Sonata for piano duet in D major, K381

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Pieces de clavecin: Troisieme Suite in D major
» VIII Les Cyclopes

Ravel, Maurice

Le Tombeau de Couperin
Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand
Piano Concerto in G major
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Violin Sonata no.2 in G major

Roussel, Albert

Pieces (3), op.49

Schumann, Robert

Fantasiestucke (8), op.12 (selection)
Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54

Stravinsky, Igor

Capriccio for piano and orchestra

Artists

Monique Haas (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductors

Charles Munch
Paul Paray
Ferdinand Leitner

About

10-CD box set featuring ten original albums from the award-winning French pianist Monique Haas. Masterful recordings of the French repertoire, plus Mozart-concert recordings from Europe and the US and rarely heard works by contemporary composers from the 20th century.

Monique Haas was exceptional among the piano virtuosos of her time. Born in Paris in 1909, where she also died in 1987, she combined charm and wit with straightforward formal objectivity. Her award-winning recordings of French repertoire as well as her Mozart recordings, which can be heard in this 10-CD collection, demonstrate this impressively. Married to composer Marcel Mihalovici, she was also open to contemporary works. Darius Milhaud dedicated his second piano sonata to her.

Haas had won the first prize of the Paris Conservatoire at eighteen and went on to study with Rudolf Serkin, Robert Casadesus, and George Enescu, whose chamber music partner she also became. She passed on her technical and artistic knowledge to new generations in numerous master classes and while teaching at the Paris Conservatory.

She performs alongside orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Paray and Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Ferdinand Leitner.

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