• The last works in this vein these composer's penned. • Frédéric D’Oria-Nicolas: First prize - Mravinsky • Competition, Saint-Petersburg, 1997. Repertoire of 220 works. • Svetlin Roussev: Concertmaster of the Radio France Philharmonic. Violin professor - Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et de Danse de Paris. • Booklet notes in French, English and Japanese. • ""Pioneering and innovative programme for interpreters in complete harmony.- Chris Humphrey, Classiquenews""

• Rachmaninov's Two Suite's and the Symphonic Dances are crucial works in his oeuvre and major works in the two piano literature. • Pianist Frédéric D’Oria-Nicolas, noted for his sonorous piano sound and assured manner, has recorded several critically acclaimed albums for Fondamenta. • Pianist Alexander Kobrin concertizes internationally and recently joined the Artist Faculty of Steinhardt School for Piano Studies at New York University. • Booklet notes in French and English.

Performances by the Russian pianist Vladimir Tropp (b. 1939), particularly of works by Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Medtner are widely acclaimed. A long-time academic, he has in his career made a series of radio, LP and CD recordings. In 1998, one of his series of three CDs entitled "Russian Miniatures" was awarded the prestigious "Record Academy" prize for best classical recording of the year. For Fondamenta, he has recorded a Russian recital destined to continue the acclaim he is accustomed to receiving, and opening the eyes and ears of many listeners approaching him for the very first time.

Pianist Christian Chamorel (b. 1979) is one of Switzerland’s most widely fêted pianists of his generation. +An invitee to festivals around the world, he is also founder of the annual, popular Swiss Mont Musical festival. +Mr. Chamorel’s new Fondamenta all-Mendelssohn release includes performances of the great composer’s two piano concerti, several of his Songs Without Words, and the Variations Sérieuses. +Laurent Gendre leads the Orchestre de Chambre Fribourgeois.

Eloquent. Rare. Admirable That's how Classica magazine speaks about this album and why it received the distinguished "Choc" award in France. Although the general public has probably not heard of Tatiana Zelikman, her name is famous among countless musicians in Russia and beyond, for she is considered to be one of the finest pianists and teachers today. Zelikman trains the youngest pupils and gives guidance to the most experienced pianists, and over the years she has brought to light and then accompanied pianists such as Daniil Trifonov, Konstantin Lifschitz, Alexei Volodin and Alexander Kobrin, all pianists of rare talent who have become celebrities.

• Includes the work of Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczysław Weinberg, who were both friends and rivals. • Violinist Lyonel Schmit plays most often in chamber music settings. His international performance engagements have taken him to Japan, Argentina and Amsterdam. • Pianist Julien Guénebaut is a frequent solo and chamber music recitalist. • Booklet notes in French and English include performer biographies, Anton Chekhov's short story “Rothschild's Fiddle, and the impetus behind the music performed.

• A Chopin recital, including the 4 Ballades and the Op. 44 Polonnaise (“Tragic”). • Pianist Jean Muller has concertized across Europe to critical approval, with special acclaim being received for his Beethoven complete piano sonata cycle performances. • Booklet notes in French and English.

• Odyssey was conceived as a triptych, with the works chosen because of their evocations of Romanticism's major themes. • Pianist Frédéric D’Oria-Nicolas, noted for his sonorous piano sound and assured manner, has recorded several critically acclaimed albums for Fondamenta. • Booklet notes in French and English.

• A choice selection of Lisztian piano works. • Pianist Jean Muller has concertized across Europe to critical approval, with special acclaim being received for his Beethoven complete piano sonata cycle performances. • Booklet notes in French, English and Japanese.

Combining the first release of Vladigerov's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Sibelius' Violin Concerto, two works written at an interval of only a few years, juxtaposes opposing elements: one gives the impression of sculpting in ice, the other of subduing a raging fire. "An involvment, a sensual beauty of the sound, a noble style make Svetlin Roussev one of the foremost virtuosos of his generation." - Diapason "Showered with international prizes, this virtuoso with his refined sound belong to this kind of musicians who are truly performing music according to their heartm" - Le Monde Includes "Fidelity CD", mastered for hi-fidelity audio systems, and "Mobility CD", mastered for the car, any audio mobile devices and computers.

Pierrot's Lunaires endeavors to seek out and make known a 20th and 21st century repertory that is often unknown to the public. Considered by Romantic composers as too austere to be worthy of attention, the duo of violin and cello became, after WWI, a favorite means of expression for composers seeking new sounds to express a new aesthetic. Violinist M�lanie Clapi�s and cellist Yan Levionnois met in 2009 during a series of string ensemble concerts and soon decided to form a violin and cello duo.

The year was 1961, the venue the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. After a memorable performance in Berlin a year earlier, Fitzgerald was once again singing to a packed concert hall. This release has captured that performance, and has been remastered for crystal-clear sound quality. It’s the closest thing to being right there in the audience those five decades ago. (Fondamenta)

In view of the work of new musicians of the same period, such as Miles Davis, Frank Zappa and the Art Ensemble of Chicago (to name only three representatives of the exceptional creative effervescence of this enchanted fleeting period in musical history), at this specific moment in his career Dizzy Gillespie might conceivably have given his peers the impression that he was resting on his laurels. However, the passing of time and there discovery of unpublished recordings such as the one of this 1973 concert in Laren give a fresh, dispassionate perspective on the music that the artist was making then, and help put peremptory judgements into context. With hindsight, there appears to have been a schism within the Gillespie of the 1970s: he readily agreed to go on high-profile tours in line with legends of bebop (such as the Giants of Jazz in 1971) where, following tradition, he would give performances “of himself”, while he could call himself into question, return to the framework of his usual small bands that were familiar yet experimental, rediscovering there, as if by magic, his style – cutting-edge, inventive, virtuoso and exuberant – and his ever-intact joy in performing.

Yan Levionnois made a name for himself with his very first album, Cello Sollo, released by Fondamenta in 2013, garnering the prestigious “ffff” label awarded by Télérama magazine. This was followed by Pierrots Lunaires, with violinist Mélanie Clapiès, also brought out by Fondamenta. Guillaume Bellom has taken an unconventional path, training as both a pianist and a violinist, and was also awarded Télérama magazine’s esteemed “ffff” label for an album dedicated to Schubert in 2013. In 2017 he was nominated in the Instrumental Revelation category at the French Victoires de la Musique. Cello Sonatas is devoted to the German romantic repertoire and features Schubert’s Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor D. 821, Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in D Major, Op. 58 and the more rarely recorded Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6, by Richard Strauss. Schubert is honored with a performance of his Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano. Don’t try looking out for an arpeggione – only about a dozen of these instruments have survived to the present day. It was a hybrid of a guitar and cello, played with a bow, but which never gained popularity. The eponymous sonata, on the other hand, is still considered as one of Schubert’s major works. Mendelssohn composed the Sonata Number 2 for Cello and Piano in 1843, almost 20 years after Schubert’s composition. Mendelssohn made an early start: at the age of 12, he composed an opera, and his famous octet was written when he was 16. This sonata is classical in both its form and musical inspiration, a real gem. Mendelssohn was not only a great composer, but he also revived the music of J.S. Bach

Frédéric D’oria-Nicolas writes: “Over nearly twenty years, I have given hundreds of concerts as both a soloist and with chamber ensembles. I was lucky enough to fulfil many dreams: studying with Tatiana Zelikman in Moscow; discovering and performing true masterpieces; playing on extraordinary instruments in fabulous acoustic settings; and sharing the stage with many first-rate musicians who have left me with lasting memories, including pianist Alexander Kobrin, baritone Laurent Naouri, violinists Svetlin Roussev and Alena Baeva, and cellists François Salque and Boris Andrianov. But complete mastery of a concert program for any given performance means playing it time and time again in public. And to do that, one must accept a certain lifestyle, one that leaves little time for family and for exploring other passions. Now that I am the father of two little boys, I often play hide and seek. I also regularly don an Indiana Jones outfit of a new type, and I set off to track down forgotten recordings of legendary artists. Discovering these treasure chests that have remained unopened for decades, sharing such special times with the descendants of Navarra, Gilels and Peterson, hearing these gems for the first time and then restoring them – all these joys cannot be described. At this point in time, I have no doubt that my choices, the new emotions I experience and my demands on myself mean that I cannot round out my life more fully as a concert performer, at least for the moment.”

For the first time ever in the history of piano recording, Pierre Chalmeau immersed himself into the fascinating world of Louis Couperin, François’ uncle. Louis Couperin is considered as a key figure and the founder of the French school of harpsichord. His Pièces de clavecin constitute the gem of 17th century French music. Introduced to the piano by his pianist and conductor father, Pierre Chalmeau began his training at the CNR in Paris where he obtained a first prize in piano and chamber music in 2002. In addition to his solo work, he performs in the Notamo Duo alongside clarinetist Carjez Gerretsen, wherein they explore the great German cycles.