Pascal Roge - Complete Decca Recordings (43CD Box Set)

The distinguished French pianist Pascal Rogé turns 75 on 6 April 2026. An exclusive Decca recording artist in the 1970s and 80s, his recording career started early: he played the solo piano part in a vaunted recording of Giordano’s opera Fedora, recorded in Monte Carlo, and produced a tremendous Liszt album as an 18-year-old. He then went on to document extensively the music of Ravel, Debussy, Satie and Poulenc. Concertos, chamber music, solo piano music and song, Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns and Fauré all make their way into a comprehensive 43-CD box with original jackets. Many of these recordings have been unavailable, physically, for several years. But collectors will be additionally pleased to discover two unpublished works – Brahms’s Second Sonata, left unpublished for want of a suitable coupling, and a selection of preludes by the Japanese composer Takashi Yoshimatsu (b. 1953). Also published for the first time on Decca is a recording of Mozart concertos with Raymond Leppard. The set is accompanied by a fascinating essay by piano specialist Jeremy Nicholas, incorporating several reminiscences by Rogé about the background to these recordings, and his serendipitous introduction to Decca.