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01. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397
02. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: I. Prelude
03. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: II. Fugue
04. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: III. Forlane
05. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon
06. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: V. Menuet
07. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin: VI. Toccata
08. Madeleine de Valmalète - Alexander Alabiev & Franz Liszt - L'Alouette
09. Madeleine de Valmalète - Modest Mussorgsky - Gopak
10. Madeleine de Valmalète - Sergei Prokofiev - March from Love of Three Oranges
11. Madeleine de Valmalète - Sergei Rachmaninoff - Barcarolle, Op. 10, No. 3
12. Madeleine de Valmalète - Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11
13. Madeleine de Valmalète - Claude Debussy - Preludes, Book II: Feux d'artifice
14. Madeleine de Valmalète - Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance
15. Madeleine de Valmalète - Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau
16. Madeleine de Valmalète - Gabriel Fauré - Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 36
17. Madeleine de Valmalète - Gabriel Fauré - Impromptu in F Minor, Op. 31
18. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in D Major, K. 576: I. Allegro
19. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in D Major, K. 576: II. Adagio
20. Madeleine de Valmalète - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in D Major, K. 576: III. Allegretto
ARTIST
TITLE
Rediscovered Master: Madeleine de Valmalète
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ARB 144CD ARB 144CD
GENRE
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.