The Erato label flourished from the early 1950s. It is defined both by its discerningly chosen repertoire and by the high quality of its artists - brilliant instrumentalists including Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Maurice André (trumpet), Lily Laskine (harp), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Hélène Grimaud (piano) and outstanding and sympathetic conductors such as Jean-François Paillard, Claudio Scimone, Michel Corboz, John Eliot Gardiner, Marc Minkowski, Ton Koopman and William Christie. Together they recorded a rich catalogue of Baroque — particularly French Baroque — music.

Erato’s second priority was contemporary music, especially that by French composers. No label has better or so faithfully served this repertoire, and this 50-CD edition includes some of its greatest treasures - Maurice Duruflé conducting his Requiem; Pierre Boulez conducting Le Visage nuptial and Le Soleil des eaux, and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella; The Erato label flourished from the early 1950s. It is defined both by its discerningly chosen repertoire and by the high quality of its artists — brilliant instrumentalists including Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Maurice André (trumpet), Lily Laskine (harp), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Hélène Grimaud (piano) and outstanding and sympathetic conductors such as Jean-François Paillard, Claudio Scimone, Michel Corboz, John Eliot Gardiner, Marc Minkowski, Ton Koopman and William Christie. Together they recorded a rich catalogue of Baroque — particularly French Baroque — music.

Erato’s second priority was contemporary music, especially that by French composers. No label has better or so faithfully served this repertoire, and this 50-CD edition includes some of its greatest treasures - Maurice Duruflé conducting his Requiem; Pierre Boulez conducting Le Visage nuptial and Le Soleil des eaux, and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella; Yvonne Loriod, Boulez and Marius Constant performing Messiaen; Messiaen playing his own Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité; and Darius Milhaud conducting two of his symphonies.

Contents:
CD 1 MAURICE ANDRÉ
Baroque Trumpet Concertos

CD 2 AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA / TON KOOPMAN
J S Bach: Orchestral Suites, BWV 1066–69

CD 3 MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN
J S Bach: Organ Works

CD 4 ALAIN LOMBARD, GILBERT AMY
Berlioz: Overtures

CD 5 JULIA MIGENES, PLÁCIDO DOMINGO / LORIN MAAZEL
Bizet: Carmen (excerpts)

CD 6 PIERRE BOULEZ
Boulez:
- Le Visage nuptial
- Le Soleil des eaux
- Figures, Doubles, Prismes
 
CD 7 PIERRE DEL VESCOVO, MICHEL PORTAL, PIERRE AMOYAL, FRÉDÉRIC LODÉON, MICHEL DALBERTO
Brahms: Trios opp.40 & 114

CD 8 ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS / JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Campra: Requiem

CD 9 DAWN UPSHAW / KENT NAGANO
Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne (excerpts)
Emmanuel: Chansons bourguignonnes (excerpts)

CD 10 LES ARTS FLORISSANTS / WILLIAM CHRISTIE
Charpentier: Médée (excerpts)
Charpentier: In Nativitatem Domini Canticum (excerpts)
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (excerpts)

CD 11 MUSICA POLYPHONICA / LOUIS DEVOS
Charpentier: 9 Leçons de Ténèbres (excerpts)

CD 12 QUATUOR VIA NOVA
Chausson · Roussel: String Quartets

CD 13 NIKOLAI LUGANSKY
Chopin: Études

CD 14 OLIVIER BAUMONT
Couperin: Harpsichord Works

CD 15 ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE ROMANDE / ARMIN JORDAN
Dukas:
- L’Apprenti Sorcier
- La Péri (excerpts)
- Symphony in C major

CD 16 MICHEL CORBOZ / MAURICE DURUFLÉ
Fauré · Duruflé: Requiems

CD 17 MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN
Franck: Organ Works

CD 18 HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD / DAVID ZINMAN
Gershwin · Ravel: Piano Concertos

CD 19 JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide (highlights)

CD 20 AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA / TON KOOPMAN
Handel: Organ Concertos HWV 311, 292, 294, 291, 290, 289 & 293

CD 21 MAURICE ANDRÉ, MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, YVONNE LORIOD
Tomasi · Honegger · Milhaud · Jolivet: Concertos

CD 22 MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN / JEAN SOURISSE
Liszt: Missa choralis · Via crucis

CD 23 JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAILLARD
Lully: Te Deum · Dies irae

CD 24 YVONNE LORIOD, PIERRE BOULEZ, MARIUS CONSTANT
Messiaen: Couleurs de la cité céleste · Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum · L’Ascension

CD 25 OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte-Trinité

CD 26 DARIUS MILHAUD, CLAUDE HELFFER, DAVID ROBERTSON
Milhaud:
- Symphonies 4 & 8 “Rhodanienne”
- Piano Concerto 4
- Ballade

CD 27 LES ARTS FLORISSANTS / WILLIAM CHRISTIE
Monteverdi · D’India · Charpentier · Landi: Vocal Works

CD 28 MICHEL CORBOZ
Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale

CD 29 LILY LASKINE, JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, JACQUES LANCELOT, JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAILLARD
Mozart: Flute and Harp & Clarinet Concertos

CD 30 DANIEL BARENBOIM
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (highlights)

CD 31 LES ARTS FLORISSANTS / WILLIAM CHRISTIE
Mozart: Requiem

CD 32 MARIE-CLAIRE ALAIN, JEAN-JACQUES KANTOROW
Poulenc · Duruflé · Alain

CD 33 ORCHESTRE NATIONALDE FRANCE / MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
Prokofiev: Symphonies 5 & 7

CD 34 MONTEVERDI CHOIR / JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Purcell:
- Come, ye Sons of Art
- Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary

CD 35 SOPHIE DANEMAN, PAUL AGNEW / WILLIAM CHRISTIE
Rameau: La Guirlande

CD 36 SAMUEL MAGAD, CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / DANIEL BARENBOIM
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade · Tsar Saltan

CD 37 JEAN MARTINON
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane Suites 1 & 2
Le Festin de l’araignée

CD 38 MARIA JOÃO PIRES
Schubert: Piano Sonata D894 · Fantasy D940

CD 39 KURT SANDERLING / MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
Shostakovich:
- Symphony No.15
- Rayok

CD 40 EMMANUEL KRIVINE, LONDON SMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Tchaikovsky · Sibelius: Violin Concertos

CD 41 MARC MINKOWSKI
Stradella: San Giovanni Battista

CD 42 PIERRE BOULEZ
Stravinsky:
- Pulcinella
- Le Chant du Rossignol

CD 43 PIERRE AMOYAL
Tartini: Violin Sonatas

CD 44 LENINGRAD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA / EVGENY MRAVINSKY
Tchaikovsky · Mussorgsky · Glinka · Glazunov: Orchestral works

CD 45 JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, I SOLISTI VENETI / CLAUDIO SCIMONE
Vivaldi: Flute Concertos

CD 46 NEW COLLEGE CHOIR, OXFORD / EDWARD HIGGINBOTTOM
Choral Works

CD 47 SCOTT ROSS
J S Bach · D Scarlatti · Handel · Soler: Concertos

CD 48 SUMI JO
Virtuoso Arias

CD 49 SUSAN GRAHAM
French Operetta Arias

CD 50 ANNE AZÉMA, BOSTON CAMERATA / JOEL COHEN
Tristan et Iseult