Alfred Cortot

What is a "Zenph Re-Performance"? That may well be the first question for buyers who encounter the cover of this disc without benefit of prior discussion. The short answer: software developed by North Carolina's Zenph Studios that can analyze the sounds of an existing piano recording, breaking them down into digital (numerical) representations of their physical components – tempo, dynamics, attack, duration, even pedaling.

In 1936, the English composer and writer Constant Lambert described Igor Markevitch as ‘the leading figure of the Franco-Russian school’. As a composer he had been commissioned by Diaghilev and performed by the likes of Alfred Cortot and Roger Désormière, but his posthumous reputation largely rests on his prowess as a conductor, a profession he took up in the 1930s after study with Pierre Monteux.

Prix Duménil 2008.
Dix ans après la mort de l'énigmatique François-Régis Bastide, le fondateur de l'émission Le masque et la plume, l'ambassadeur de France à Copenhague et à Vienne, J. Garcin fait le portrait de cet écrivain musicien qui a tant compté pour lui, dans ce livre qui n'obéit qu'à une émotion, celle du souvenir. …