Lazare-Levy & Victor Staub: Complete Studio Recordings
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.APR6028

By Lazare-Levy and Victor Staub. By Albert Roussel, Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier, Claude Debussy, Emmanuel Rhene-Baton, Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, Francois Couperin, Franz S, Frederic Chopin, Gabriel Faure, Lazare-Levy, Louis-Claude Daquin, Maurice Ravel, Moritz Moszkowski, Paul Dukas, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Classical, Piano. Classical. CD. Naxos #APR6028. Published by Naxos (NX.APR6028).

This is the second release in an important new APR series devoted to the French Piano School. For around 150 years France has nurtured a distinctive style of pianism centered on the teaching of the Paris Conservatoire. The heyday of the school was probably the first fifty years of the 20th century and this series of recordings aims to explore in depth the often-forgotten recordings made at this time. Victor Staub (1872-1953) and Lazare-Levy (1882-1964) were both students of Louis Diemer at the Paris Conservatoire in the latter part of the 19th century and both were to follow in his footsteps as great teachers in that institution and elsewhere. Indeed, their list of pupils reads as a roll call of 20th century French pianists. However, they were also extremely fine pianists and this set presents, for the first time, their complete studio recordings. The Staub titles are almost forgotten and none have ever been reissued before. As one would expect, clarity, brilliance and refinement are much to the fore in these exemplars of the French School.