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French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie accomplished international acknowledgement by his mid-twenties. His solid, however sensitively crafted playing provides offered him well in a repertory of significant breadth, using a focus on composers through the late Traditional period to the first 20th hundred years. Through an especially fruitful association along with his …

Canadian pianist Louise Bessette has generated a career among the primary interpreters of modern piano music. She’s chosen a hard way to follow, carrying out and championing music by fairly small known living composers like José Evangelista, Serge Provost, Michelle Gonville, and André Villeneuve. But Bessette offers, generally, managed to …