Danielle Laval - A Piano Odyssey

The formidable pianist Danielle Laval was one of EMI France’s leading lights during the 1970s. A student of the great pedagogue Vlado Perlemuter, she inherited from him an unwavering devotion to French music and an inimitable mastery of legato.

Unusually, this pianist first became known to the general public through her recordings before establishing herself as a major concert artist. On the advice of the renowned artistic director Peter de Jongh, whose protégée she was, she dedicated her first album to rarely-heard études by composers such as Lazare-Lévy and Blumenfeld (included here in its entirety and newly remastered in high definition). While her vast repertoire spans from Rameau to Debussy and features many of the greatest masterpieces of the piano, she also recorded the very first monograph entirely dedicated to the composer Cécile Chaminade. A Piano Odyssey pays tribute once more to this prodigious artist.