Lortie, Louis

Franck & Strauss: Violin Sonatas / Augustin Dumay, violin; Louis Lortie, piano

1 CD / Onyx Classics / 2013-03-12

Works: Richard Strauss: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op. 18; Stimmungsbilder, Op. 9; César Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, M 8; Mélancholie, for violin & piano, M. ...
Performers: Dumay, Augustin [Violin]; Lortie, Louis

Franck's passionate and sunny Violin Sonata has long been regarded as one of the greatest in the repertoire, and is the work of a composer...continue...
Recording information: Saint-Denis-le-Ferment, Normandy (09/24/2012-09/26/2012)....continue...

Karol Symanowski: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 "Symphonie Concertante"; Concerto Overture / Louis Lortie, piano; BBC SO

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2013-01-29

Works: Karol Szymanowski: Concert Overture, for orchestra in E major, Op. 12, M12; Symphony no 4, Op. 60 "Symphonie concertante"; Symphony no 2 in B flat major, Op. 19, M24
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Gardner, Edward
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra

Szymanowski inscribed the original score with part of the poem Witez Wlast by his friend Tadeusz Micinski: 'I will not play you sad songs, O...continue...
Recording information: Watford Colosseum....continue...

Best of Mendelssohn / Peter Schreier, Louis Lortie, Igor Oistrakh, Gunther Herbig et al.

2 CD / Berlin Classics / 2012-07-10

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Ein Sommernachtstraum, Op. 61; Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"; Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir (Psalm 91), motet for double chorus; Violinkon...
Performers: Berlin Chamber Orchestra; Berlin, Staatskapelle; Dresden Kreuzchor [Boy's Chorus]; Engel, Karl; Herbig, Gunther; Koch, Helmut; Konwitschny, Franz; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Lortie, Louis; Masur, ...
Conductors: Herbig, Günther; Masur, Kurt; Stier, Gothart; Koch, Helmut; Konwitschny, Franz; Neumann, Horst; Mauersberger, Rudolf

Chopin: Piano Works, Vol. 2 / Louis Lortie, piano

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-03-27

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano no 6 in G minor, Op. 15/3, CT. 113; Ballade for Piano no 1 in G minor, B 66/Op. 23; Nocturne for piano no 4 in F major, Op. 15/1, CT. 111; Ballade for Pi...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Chandos presents Volume two in its series of solo piano works by Chopin, played by the French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie. Recording exclusively for Chandos, Lortie...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk (10/24/2011/10/25/2011)....continue...

Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 / Louis Lortie, Gardner/BBC SO

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2012-01-31

Works: Witold Lutoslawski: Symphonic Variations, for orchestra; Concerto for Piano "For Krystian Zimerman"; Variations on a theme of Paganini for 2 Pianos; Symphony no 4
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Gardner, Edward
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra

This is the third volume in the Chandos series devoted to the music of the Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. It brings together his first surviving...continue...
Recording information: Walthamstow Assembly Hall (06/29/2011-06/30/2011)....continue...

Lizst: The Complete Anneés de Pelerinage / Lortie

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2011-03-29

Works: Franz Liszt: Album d'un voyageur, S 156; Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, S 161 "Italie"; Années de pèlerinage no 3, S 163; Venezia e Napoli, S 162
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Virtuoso pianist Louis Lortie performs all three "Years" of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), a work rarely recorded in its entirety. The first...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk (11/08/2010-11/10/2010)....continue...

Louis Lortie plays Beethoven

9 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-10-26

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 1 in F minor; Sonata for Piano no 2 in A major, Op. 2 no 2; Sonata for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. 2 no 3; Sonata for piano, 4 hands in D major, Op. 6; Sonata...
Performers: Lortie, Louis; Mercier, Helene

Beethoven has always been a part of the concert repertoire of exclusive Chandos artist Louis Lortie, and it rose again to the top of his...continue...

Louis Lortie Plays Schumann & Chopin

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-06-29

Works: Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54; Frédéric Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 2 in F minor, B 43/Op. 21
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

This Chandos Classics re-issue features the popular coupling of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor and Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in F minor. Louis Lortie...continue...
Recording information: St. Jude-On-The-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, (11/13/1991)....continue...

Lortie Plays Chopin, Vol. 1: Nocturnes, Scherzos, Sonata No. 2

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-05-25

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano no 19 in E minor, Op. 72/1, CT. 126; Scherzo for Piano no 1 in B minor, B 65/Op. 20; Nocturne for piano no 16 in E flat major, Op. 55/2, CT. 123; Scherzo...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

"In the era of the great romantic pianists, it used to be the fashion at piano recitals to offer an improvisation in the same key...continue...
Recording information: Britten Studio, Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings, Suff (12/09/2009-12/10/2009)....continue...

Cellist

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2010-02-09

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for violoncello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Cello no 2 in D major, Op 101/H 7b no 2; Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations (12) for Cello ...
Performers: Canino, Bruno; Lortie, Louis; Vogler, Jan
Conductors: Güttler, Ludwig; Poppen, Christoph

Jan Vogler knows no bounds. Living in Dresden and New York he refuses to be musically pigeonholed - whatever he takes on is world class....continue...

Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"

1 CD / ATMA / 2009-09-29

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Piano no 1 in G minor, Op. 25; Concerto for Piano no 2 in D minor, Op. 40; Symphony no 5 in D major, Op. 107 "Reformation"
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Lortie, Louis
Ensemble: Orchestre Symphonique de Québec

Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has been praised for the fresh perspective and individuality he brings to a broad spectrum of the keyboard repertoire. He has...continue...

Reference Gold - Mendelssohn: Piano and Cello Sonata Op 58, etc / Jan Vogler, Louis Lortie

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2009-07-14

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata for cello & piano no 2 in D major, Op. 58; Variations Concertantes for Cello and Piano, Op. 17; Sonata for cello & piano no 1 in B flat major, Op. 45; Song without words for...
Performers: Lortie, Louis; Vogler, Jan

Liszt: Works for Piano and Orchestra / Lortie, Freire, Mayer, et al

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2008-06-10

Works: Franz Liszt: Malédiction, S 121; Grande Fantasie Symphonique on "Lelio" (Berlioz), S 120; De profundis for Piano and Orchestra, S 691 (unfinished); Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 1...
Performers: Freire, Nelson; Lortie, Louis; Mayer, Stephen
Conductors: Pehlivanian, George; Plasson, Michel; Vásáry, Tamás
Ensemble: Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra; Hague Residentie Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

Beyond the two piano concertos and occasional performances of Totentanz, little is heard of Liszt's music for piano and orchestra, though an interest in the...continue...

Classics - Liszt: Works for Piano & Orchestra / Lortie

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-06-27

Works: Franz Liszt: Malédiction, for piano & string orchestra (or string sextet), S. 121 (LW H1); Grande Fantaisie symphonique über Themen aus Berlioz's "Lélio", for piano and orchestra, ...
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Pehlivanian, George
Ensemble: Hague Residentie Orchestra

"The hugely underrated Louis Lortie completes his Liszt concertante piano music series for Chandos with yet another example of his fine Lisztian credentials." -Gramophone Editor's...continue...

Bear Essentials - Classics for Funerals

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-02-22

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March"; Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass; Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, süsser Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh'!, BWV 478; Conc...
Performers: Austin, Michael [Organ]; Comberti, Micaela; Crabtree, Libby; Kenyon, Philip; Kirkby, Emma; Lortie, Louis; Rodgers, Joan; Scott, Jonathan; Standage, Simon; Torchinsky, Yuri [Violin]
Conductors: Bamert, Matthias; Hickox, Richard; Tortelier, Yan Pascal; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Standage, Simon; Järvi, Neeme; Parrott, Andrew; Guest, George; Christophers, Harry; Handley, Vernon; Hurst, Geor...
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Collegium Musicum 90; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus; R...

Louis Lortie plays Ravel's Complete Music for Solo Piano

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-01-20

Works: Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Le tombeau de Couperin; Sérénade grotesque; Jeux d'eau; Valses nobles et sentimentales; La valse; Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antiq...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Romantic Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-01-20

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite no 3 in G minor, BWV 808; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major, K 467; Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour; Enigma Variations; Stanley Myers: The ...
Performers: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Byfield, Jack; Cantilena [Instrumental Ensemble]; Edlina, Luba; Fingerhut, Margaret; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafa...
Conductors: Shepherd, Adrian; Shelley, Howard; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Hickox, Richard; Shostakovich, Maxim; Handley, Vernon; Byfield, Jack; Horenstein, Jascha; Järvi, Neeme; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Tortel...
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Cantilena (Instrumental Ensemble); Cathedral Strings; I Musici de Montreal; London Mozart Players; London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharm...

This selection contains both ADD and DDD recordings....continue...

Bear Essentials - Dining Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-10-21

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for strings & continuo in D major, Op. 12/3, RV 124; Chamber Concerto for Lute and 2 Violins in D major, RV 93...
Performers: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The; Australia, Soloists of; Barnert, Matthias; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Cantilena [Instrumental Ensemble]; City of Birmingham ...
Conductors: Shelley, Howard; ; Manze, Andrew; Thomas, Ronald [Violin]; Standage, Simon; Preston, Stephen; Hickox, Richard; Garforth, David; Shepherd, Adrian; Leppard, Raymond; Weller, Walter; Turovsky, Yuli; Bam...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; Ambache Chamber Ensemble; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Cantilena; Collegium Musicum 90; Concerto Copenhagen; English Chamber Ensemble; English Cha...

Gidon Kremer - Happy Birthday / Kremerata Baltica

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2003-01-28

Works: Alfred Schnittke: Gogol Suite, for orchestra (music from "The Dead Souls Register;" orchestrated by G.Rozhdestvensky); Peter Heidrich: Happy Birthday Variations, for orchestra; Vato Kakhidze: Blitz F...
Performers: BALTICA, KREMERata; Kakhidze, Vato; Kremer, Gidon; Lortie, Louis; Muceniece, Lasma; Sudraba, Marta; Ulijona, Ula
Conductors: Kremer, Gidon
Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica

Personnel: Kremerata Baltica (vocals); Gidon Kremer (violin); Indre Andruskeviciute, Dzeraldas Bidva, Migle Diksaitiene, Eva Bindere (violin); Giedré Dirvanauskaité, Peteris Cirksis, Marta S...continue...

Franck: Symphony in d, Symphonic Variations / Lortie, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-02-27

Works: César Franck: Les Eolides, M 43; Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, M 46; Symphony in D minor, M 48
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Tortelier, Yan Pascal
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"Again typically fresh, Romantic and fluent in the Symphonic Variations, Tortelier has an evident ally in Lortie, who makes the beginning conversational rather than brusque...continue...

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 31 / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-10-24

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 16 in G major, Op. 31 no 1; Sonata for Piano no 17 in D minor, Op. 31/2 "The Tempest"; Sonata for Piano no 18 in E flat, Op. 31
Performers: Lortie, Louis

"...What Lortie offers is the best of modern music-making--faithful to the written notes, but even more to the music that they are meant to evoke....continue...

To the Distant Beloved - Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann / Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-02-22

Works: Franz Liszt: An die ferne Geliebte, transcription for piano (after Beethoven, Op. 98), S. 469 (LW A162); Auf dem Wasser zu singen (Schubert) for Piano, S 558 no 2; Frühlingsnacht (Schumann) for ...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

"Louis Lortie is equal parts poet and virtuoso on this disc, and usesthe pedal as imaginatively as an artist uses a paint brush. His elegance...continue...

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 22, 26, 49 / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1999-10-19

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 "Funeral March"; Sonata for Piano no 11 in B flat major, Op. 22; Sonata for Piano no 19 in G minor, Op. 49 no 1; Sonata for Piano ...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Opp 27 & 28 / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1999-04-20

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 no 1 "Quasi una fantasia"; Sonata for Piano no 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2 "Moonlight"; Sonata for Piano no 15 in D, Op. 28 "Pas...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Chopin: 24 Preludes, etc / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1998-02-17

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Preludes (24) for Piano, Op. 28; Prelude for piano no 25 in C sharp minor, Op. 45, CT. 190; Andante spianato et Grand polonaise brillante in E flat major, Op. 22; Polonaise...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Widely held to be one of the world's leading Chopin interpreters, Louis Lorti now sets to disc the composer's seminal Twenty-four Preludes. Chopin wrote these...continue...

Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Op 101 & 106 / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1996-03-19

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 28 in A major, Op. 101; Sonata for Piano no 29 in B flat major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
Performers: Lortie, Louis

"Lortie is simply a stunning pianist for whom technical problems do not exist...the textures a transparent even when thick...the voicing of each part projected with...continue...

Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Opp 6, 7 & 14 / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-03-21

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 4 in E flat major, Op. 7; Sonata for Piano no 9 in E major, Op. 14 no 1; Sonata for Piano no 10 in G major, Op. 14 no 2; Sonata for piano, 4 hands in D major...
Performers: Lortie, Louis; Mercier, Helene

Mozart: Sonata K 448; Schubert: Fantaisie / Lortie, Mercier

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-04-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D major, K 448 (375a); Variations (5) on an original theme for piano, 4 hands in G major, K. 501; Franz Schubert: Fantasy for Piano 4 hands in F minor,...
Performers: Lortie, Louis; Mercier, Helene

Chopin: The Complete Études / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-10-28

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 10; Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25; Trois nouvelles études, for piano, KK IIb/3, CT. 38-40 (B. 130)
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Schumann, Chopin: Piano Concertos / Lortie, Järvi

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-05-01

Works: Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54; Frédéric Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 2 in F minor, B 43/Op. 21
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Opp 13, 53, 81a / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1992-03-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano no 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathetique"; Sonata for Piano no 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"; Sonata for Piano no 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a "Les Adieux"
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Liszt: Piano Sonata in b, 3 Concert Studies / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Sonata for Piano in B minor, S 178; Concert Etudes (3) for Piano, S 144
Performers: Lortie, Louis

Ravel: Piano Concertos; Fauré: Ballade / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano left hand; Concerto for Piano in G major; Gabriel Fauré: Ballade for Piano and Orchestra in F sharp major, Op. 19
Performers: Lortie, Louis
Conductors: Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae

Ravel: Music for Four Hands / Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l'oye; Rapsodie espagnole; Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet; Boléro; La valse
Performers: Lortie, Louis; Mercier, Helene

Beethoven: Eroica Variations, Rondos, etc / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations (15) and Fugue for Piano in E flat major, Op. 35 "Eroica"; Variations (6) for Piano in F major on an Original Theme, Op. 34; Rondo for Piano in C major, Op. 51 no 1; ...
Performers: Lortie, Louis

20th Century Original Piano Transcriptions / Louis Lortie

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka; Sergei Prokofiev: Pieces (10) for Piano from "Romeo and Juliet", Op. 75; Maurice Ravel: La valse; George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Performers: Lortie, Louis; Mercier, Helene