Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Luigi Boccherini, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Georges Auric, Édouard Lalo, Vincent d’Indy, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, Antonio Vivaldi, Dimitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, André Caplet, Jean-Louis Duport
Today, Frédéric Lodéon is probably best known as a man of the media, whose culture and sense of humour have done so much on the French airwaves and TV to spread the knowledge of classical music to a wider audience.
But the former student of Navarra and Rostropovich is first and perhaps foremost an immense cellist, endowed with phenomenal means, refined musicality and an impetuous temperament. Covering a broad spectrum of concerto and chamber music for cello, his discographic legacy for Erato and EMI, collected here for the first time and including numerous CD premieres, is a tribute to his flamboyant style.
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