• 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.

Classical Music

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.

As the winner of the Victoires de la Musique Classique award (the French equivalent of the Grammy Awards) in 2012 at the age of 24, named instrumental soloist "Revelation of the Year", Thomas Leleu is the first tuba player to obtain this coveted distinction. Leleu has also once again turned to composition, having put this second talent aside to hone his instrument. Working with the prestigious German instrument manufacturer, he helped develop the 2250 TL "French Touch" tuba that he now plays. Includes "Fidelity CD", mastered for hi-fidelity audio systems, and "Mobility CD", mastered for the car, any audio mobile devices and computers.

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.

The Seasons, whose entire cycle is rarely recorded, provides striking testimony to Tchaikovsky's genius. In 1876, Nuvellist, a monthly magazine published in Saint Petersburg, commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose a piece for each issue. The result was twelve pieces, one for each month of the year, whose titles and epigraphs were drawn from the Russian poetry suggested by the editor. Each piece was inspired by nature and scenes of Russian life of the times. They come together in an extraordinary fresco, an allegory of the cycle of human life. Two Nocturnes, that are included here, add a further dimension of poetry and beauty.

• 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.

Fondamenta: Kirill Gilels, the grandson of the famous pianist Emil Gilels, made the decision to entrust us with the results of several years of research: he gave us a list of dates and places of the previously unreleased recordings of his grandfather. It was in Amsterdam where at last we succeeded in extracting five recordings of performances Gilels, one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century, had given between 1975 and 1980 at the Concertgebouw - recordings that had fallen into oblivion.

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.