Michel Beroff - Complete Erato Recordings (CD)

Michel Béroff produced an impressive series of recordings over a period of more than 25 years for EMI. A quarter of a century full of musical highlights, ambitious projects, exciting artistic collaborations. This box is just as packed with music as it is with the life story of an exceptional talent. For connoisseurs, it represents the reopening of a treasure trove richly filled with reference recordings; for less experienced listeners, it offers a fantastic opportunity for discovery tours. And although much of it is already more than four decades old, this discography has remained as young and "timeless" as Michel Béroff himself. The box is enriched by two never-before-released recordings: a master tape from 1978 uniquely documents the outstanding and astonishingly mature Beethoven playing of the young Michel Béroff; together with Bach's Overture in the French style (from 1969), it adds another color to the dazzling mosaic, another zoom on a still radiant career that was marked by great artistic successes not only in the concert hall but also in the recording studio. Born in 1950, the French pianist Michel Béroff gave his first recital in Paris in 1967 and won the same year the First Prize of the first edition of the Concours international Olivier-Messiaen, whose jury was chaired by Olivier Messiaen himself. He had a dazzling international career since that alongside the greatest conductors: Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abbado, Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim, André Previn, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit among others. Béroff's extensive discography includes the complete works for piano and orchestra by Liszt, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, as well as a big part of solo piano works by Debussy, Messiaen (of which he is a renowned interpreter), Bartók, Schumann or Mussorgsky. His duets with the violinist Augustin Dumay and with the pianist Jean-Philippe Collard were acclaimed with incredible recordings made together and available in this box. The Messiaen, Debussy, Prokofiev and Mussorgsky are true highlights of this edition. The boxset includes worth of 3CDs of premiere on CD, and as a bonus (CD 42) two previously unpublished recordings (Bach & Beethoven).

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Bach Concertos for 2 Pianos BWV 1060-1062
2. Piano Concerto No. 7 BWV 1058
3. Bach Concertos for 3 ; 4 Pianos BWV 1063-1065
4. Works for the Left Hand · Bach, Saint-Saëns, Bartók, Scriabin, Chopin
5. Bartók Piano Sonata · en Plein Air · 6 Romanian Folk Dances · 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs · Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm
6. Bartók for Children (Hungarian ; Slovakian Folk Songs) · 10 Easy Pieces · Sonatina
7. Brahms 21 Hungarian Dances
8. Brahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 · Liebesliederwalzer · Variations on a Theme By Robert Schumann
9. Brahms Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3
10. Violin Sonata F.A.E
11. Variations on a Theme By Robert Schumann
12. Debussy Préludes (Livres I ; II)
13. Debussy Estampes · Pour Le Piano · Images
14. Debussy 12 Études
15. Debussy Suite Bergamasque · 2 Arabesques · Children's Corner
16. Debussy Petite Suite · Symphony for Piano 4-Hands · Épigraphes Antiques · en Blanc Et Noir
17. Debussy Mélodies Ariettes Oubliées · Fêtes Galantes, Livre I · 5 Poèmes de Baudelaire
18. French Piano Duets Dukas L'apprenti Sorcier
19. Bizet Jeux D'enfants
20. Debussy Prélude À L'après-Midi D'un Faune · 2 Nocturnes
21. Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole
22. Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Opp. 46 ; 72
23. Liszt Works for Piano ; Orchestra (Incl. Piano Concertos Nos. 1 ; 2)
24. Schubert Fantasie "Wanderer" · Weber Polonaise Brillante
25. Messiaen Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésus
26. Messiaen 8 Préludes · Quatre Études de Rythme
27. Messiaen Quatuor Pour la Fin Du Temps
28. Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie
29. Milhaud Paris · Le Carnaval D'aix
30. Saint-Saëns Le Carnaval Des Animaux
31. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition · Piano Works
32. Prokofiev Visions Fugitives
33. Kabalevsky Piano Sonata No. 2
34. Prokofiev Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 ; 2 · Visions Fugitives
35. Prokofiev Piano Sonatas Nos. 3,6 ; 7
36. Prokofiev Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 ; 2
37. Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 · Overture on Hebrew Themes
38. Ravel Sites Auriculaires · la Valse · Frontispice · Ma Mère L'oye
39. Schumann Kreisleriana · Waldszenen
40. Schumann Humoresque · Fantasie Op. 17
41. Schumann Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 ; 2
42. R. Strauss ; Franck Violin Sonatas
43. Stravinsky Solo Piano Works
44. Stravinsky Capriccio · Mouvements · Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
45. Szymanowski Works for Violin ; Piano
46. Bach Overture in the French Style
47. Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 30 ; 31