Credits:

DOYEN,JEAN

Description:

French Piano School Series Volume 3! Aggregating Jean Doyen's rare early recordings, APR's new "French Piano School" series brings back to life today the unique style and master pianists' performances nurtured by the famous teachers of the Paris Conservatory over a period of 150 years. This is the third collection in the series, following the first collection "Marius-François Gaillard & Carmen Gilbert" (APR 6025) and the second collection "Victor Staud & Lazare Lévy" (APR 6028). Jean Doyen (1907-1982), a native of Paris, studied at the Paris Conservatory with Louis Diémé, Marguerite Long, and others, and was himself a piano teacher at the Paris Conservatory from 1941 to 1977 (the second-longest piano teacher in the history of the Paris Conservatory), where he trained many pianists and laid the foundation of the French He is a pianist who has laid the foundation of the French Piano School. From Jean Doyen's early recordings, in which Chopin was an important part of his repertoire in addition to French music, CD1 features Chopin and Liszt, while CD2 includes French music by Chabrier, Faure, Debussy, and Ravel.This reissue of the acclaimed APR reveals Jean Doyen's brilliant technique accompanied by his generous poetic sentiment. Tokyo M Plus