Last Updated 10/30/2024 07:22 PM EDT
LOG IN
CART
Cart Items :
Sub Total :
artist
label
title
catalog #
any field
advanced
New Releases
Artists
Labels
Forthcoming
Best Sellers
Reviews
Jobs
soundclips
[All Countries]
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russian Federation
Scotland
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
World's Leading Terrorist State
World's Misleading Terrorist State
[All Formats]
Book
Cassette
CD
Clothing
Digital
DVD
MISC
VHS
Vinyl
[All Genres]
CLASSICAL
COMEDY
ELECTRONIC
EXPERIMENTAL
HIPHOP
JAZZ
Misc
ROCK
WORLD
artist
catalog #
label
title
any field
Tweet
Send Email
PRICE:
$11.50
$11.50
IN STOCK
01. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397
Your browser does not support the audio element.
02. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: I. Prelude
Your browser does not support the audio element.
03. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: II. Fugue
Your browser does not support the audio element.
04. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: III. Forlane
Your browser does not support the audio element.
05. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon
Your browser does not support the audio element.
06. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: V. Menuet
Your browser does not support the audio element.
07. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: VI. Toccata
Your browser does not support the audio element.
08. Madeleine de Valmalète - Alexander Alabiev & Franz Liszt - L'Alouette
Your browser does not support the audio element.
09. Madeleine de Valmalète - Modest Mussorgsky - Gopak
Your browser does not support the audio element.
10. Madeleine de Valmalète - Sergei Prokofiev - March from Love of Three Oranges
Your browser does not support the audio element.
11. Madeleine de Valmalète - Sergei Rachmaninoff - Barcarolle, Op. 10, No. 3
Your browser does not support the audio element.
12. Madeleine de Valmalète - Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11
Your browser does not support the audio element.
13. Madeleine de Valmalète - Claude Debussy - Preludes, Book II: Feux d'artifice
Your browser does not support the audio element.
14. Madeleine de Valmalète - Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance
Your browser does not support the audio element.
15. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau
Your browser does not support the audio element.
16. Madeleine de Valmalète - Gabriel Fauré - Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 36
Your browser does not support the audio element.
17. Madeleine de Valmalète - Gabriel Fauré - Impromptu in F Minor, Op. 31
Your browser does not support the audio element.
18. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in D Major, K. 576: I. Allegro
Your browser does not support the audio element.
19. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in D Major, K. 576: II. Adagio
Your browser does not support the audio element.
20. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in D Major, K. 576: III. Allegretto
Your browser does not support the audio element.
ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Rediscovered Master: Madeleine de Valmalète
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ARBITER
CATALOG #
ARB 144CD
ARB 144CD
GENRE
CLASSICAL
RELEASE DATE
10/16/2015
2005 release; awarded the Diapason d'Or by the French Diapason magazine. Youthful energy and insight are abundant in the pianism of
Madeleine de Valmalète
(1899-1999), who startles with her premiere recordings of
Ravel
's music, hers being the first ever of his
Tombeau de Couperin
(1928), hardly surpassed to this day. The adventurous Madeleine became the second woman in France to get a driver's license. Playing confidently into her ninth decade, she is equally sharp and alluring playing
Mozart
in her 93rd year. Along with her complete 1928 recordings made in Berlin when she was 29, this set includes several private documents from later years and a full text on her long life. Whereas most French pianists take a careful approach, de Valmalète projected an excitement that few could attain and sustain. Arbiter once had a free night in her city and fretted over whether she was still alive, and if so, what shape would she be in at 99? Days later, a contact found out that not only was she well but had gone swimming in the Mediterranean on the day the label was in town. On her 100th birthday she ate and drank, mingling around a table with dozens of well-wishers in Marseille, and passed away only a few days later. This CD also includes performances of compositions by
Modest Mussorgsky
,
Sergei Prokofiev
,
Sergei Rachmaninoff
,
Franz Liszt
,
Claude Debussy
,
Manuel de Falla
,
Gabriel Fauré
, and
Alexander Alabiev
.
Other releases on ARBITER
Other releases by VA