Jacques Thibaud, Alfred Cortot – EMI Références CDH 7 63032 2

Sobriety and elegance: the art of conversation. Accompanies listeners on their discovery without assaulting them.

2- Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita BWV 1004 and Sonata BWV 1013

transcribed and performed on the lute by Hopkinson Smith – EMI Deutsche Harmonia Mundi CDM 7 69553 2.

An illuminating performance that frees us from a declining violinistic rhetoric and puts us back into contact with the essence of J. S. Bach’s music.

3- Renato Carosone, i più grandi successi

EMI Gold 7243 8 59913 2 5

The music I listened to when I was three, at the end of the 1950s. It was the very image of Italy when it was still authentic and serene.

4- François Couperin: Concerts Royaux, Nouveaux Concerts, Apothéoses etc.

S. Kuijken, W. Kuijken, B. Kuijken and others… - Philips SEON 6747 174

This recording marked my discovery of the colours of French music, a world that, until now, I never imagined was so close to me.

5- “Round Midnight”, soundtrack (Herbie Hancock & C.)

CBS 70300

The sensation of opening a vast, open space in my life...