Aria: Opera without Words

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2	Ramble on Love, for piano
3	Gianni Schicchi, opera: A
4	Die tote Stadt (The Dead
5	Paraphrase on a Theme fro
6	Tosca, opera: Vissi d'art
7	Norma, opera: Casta diva
8	Mélodie (Dance of the Ble
9	Portrait of Madame Butter
10	Die Walküre (The Valkyrie
Aria: Opera without Words
1.	Fantasy on 2 Themes from Saint-Saëns' "Samson et Dalila", for piano 6:58
	Composed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet / Randy Kerber
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
2.	Ramble on Love, for piano (after the Love Duet from Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier;" FS 4) 7:31
	Composed by Percy Grainger
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
3.	Gianni Schicchi, opera: Aria. O mio babbino caro 2:57
	Composed by Giacomo Puccini
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
4.	Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), opera, Op. 12: Glück, das mir verblieb 6:10
	Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
5.	Paraphrase on a Theme from Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, for piano 5:46
	Composed by Alfred Grünfeld
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
6.	Tosca, opera: Vissi d'arte 3:27
	Composed by Giacomo Puccini
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
7.	Norma, opera: Casta diva 7:02
	Composed by Vicenzo Bellini
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
8.	Mélodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Gluck's Orphee ed Euridice) 3:29
	Composed by Giovanni Sgambati
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
9.	Portrait of Madame Butterfly (Operatic Sonata-Fantasy on Themes of Puccini), for piano 12:21
	Composed by Yvar Mikhashoff
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
10.	Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: The Ride of the Valkyries 5:04
	Composed by Richard Wagner
	Performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Gramophone

Rarely has a pianist sounded so in love with his chosen repertoire. Wherever you turn you will hear playing of a princely lustre and virtuosity. Bryce Morrison

BBC Music Magazine

[The pieces] are inventive and pianistically resourceful.... Thibaudet is always poetically refined and plays with delicacy and colour. Tim Parry

San Francisco Chronicle

The tunes are hard to resist, and Thibaudet plays them with lyrical charm and plenty of technical pizzazz. Joshua Kosman