Sony Classical is pleased to release the first ever collection of the great French pianist-composer Robert Casadesus’s recordings for Columbia Masterworks. This must-have box set features 62 recordings that have been newly transferred, mixed and mastered from the original analogue discs and tapes using 24 bit/ 192 kHz technology. Included in the collection are stunning collaborations with some of the world’s best musicians, and composers. This includes: 16-time Grammy winner, Leonard Bernstein; internationally renowned French virtuoso violinist, Zino Francescatti and British cellist and conductor Sir John Barbirolli. Featured on the box set are 61 CDs of Casadesus’s recordings and 4 CDs with recordings from the exceptional pianist and wife to Robert, Gaby Casadesus and their son Jean Casadesus.

CD 1 (1940)
Ravel - Sonatine; Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Mozart - Piano Sonatas 12 & 18
Debussy - Petite Suite
Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales

CD 2 (1950)
Mozart - Violin Sonata, K481; Menuet, K355; Gigue, K574
Milhaud - Le bal Martiniquais, op.249
Ravel - Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré
Chopin - Mazurka no.13
Schumann - Waldszenen, op.82; Romanze, op.28 no.2

CD 3 (1947)
Beethoven - Piano Concerto no.4
Ravel - Piano Concerto for the left hand

CD 4
Franck - Violin Sonata in A major
Debussy - Violin Sonata

CD 5 (1945 / 1946)
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto no.4
Satie - 3 Morceaux en forme de poire

CD 6 (1948 / 1949)
d'Indy - Symphonie, op.25
Franck - Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra

CD 7 (1944 / 1951)
Casadesus - 3 Danses méditerranéennes, op.36
Chabrier - 3 Valses romantiques
Fauré - Dolly Suite; Nocturne no.5; Barcarolle no.5; Impromptu no.5

CD 8 (1949)
Beethoven - Violin Sonata no.9
Casadesus - Violin Sonata no.2

CD 9
Schumann - Symphonic Etudes, op.13
Beethoven - Piano Sonata no.31

CD 10 (1950)
Bach - Concerto for 3 pianos & strings, BWV 1063; French Suite, BWV 817
Schumann - Dichterliebe, op.48 (Pierre Bernac)

CD 11 (1950)
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas 3 & 4

CD 12 (1951)
Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte; À la manière de Chabrier; À la manière de Borodine; Sonatine; Miroirs

CD 13 (1951)
Ravel - Ma mère l'Oye; Habanera; Jeux d'eau; Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antique

CD 14 (1951)
Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Prelude in A minor; Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn

CD 15
Liszt - Piano Concerto no.2
Weber - Konzertstück in F minor, op.79

CD 16 (1952)
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas 2 & 23

CD 17
Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas in E major, A major, D major, G major, B minor, D major
Rameau - Gavotte; Le Rappel des Oiseaux; Les Sauvages; Les Niais de Sologne

CD 18 (1948 / 1941)
Mozart - Piano Concertos 21 & 27

CD 19 (1950)
Chopin - Piano Sonata no.2; Ballades 1-4

CD 20 (1953)
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas 7 & 8

CD 21 (1954)
Mozart - Piano Concertos 24 & 26

CD 22 (1953 / 1954)
Debussy - Preludes Book 1; Six Epigraphes antiques; En blanc et noir

CD 23 (1945)
Debussy - Preludes Book 2; 2 Arabesques; Children's Corner

CD 24
Debussy - Images Books 1 & 2; Estampes; Masques; L'Isle joyeuse

CD 25
Chausson - Concerto for violin, piano & string quartet, op.21

CD 26
Mozart - Sonata for 2 pianos, K448; Variations, K501
Schubert - Fantasie, D940; Andantino & Variations for piano 4 hands

CD 27
Fauré - Violin Sonatas 1 & 2

CD 28
Beethoven - Piano Concerto no.5
Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain

CD 29 (1956)
Schumann - Carnaval, op.9; Fantasie, op.17

CD 30 (1956)
Mozart - Piano Sonatas 12-14 & 17

CD 31
Mozart - Piano Concertos 10 & 12

CD 32 (1952)
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas 14, 23, 24 & 26

CD 33
Schmitt - Une semaine du petit elfe Ferme-l'Oeil, op.58; 3 Rhapsodies, op.53

CD 34
Mozart - Piano Concertos 18 & 20

CD 35
Bach - Italian Concerto, BWV 971; Toccata & Fugue, BWV 914; Partita, BWV 826

CD 36 (1958)
Franck - Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra
d'Indy - Symphonie, op.25

CD 37 (1959)
Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1 & 4

CD 38
Casadesus - Nonet, op.45; Sextet, op.58

CD 39 (1958)
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas 1 & 9

CD 40
Mozart - Piano Concertos 22 & 23

CD 41 (1958)
Schumann - Papillons, op.2; Waldszenen, op.82; Symphonic Etudes, op.13

CD 42 (1960)
Ravel - Piano Concerto for the left hand
Mozart - Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra, K365

CD 43 (1959)
Debussy - Petite Suite
Satie - 3 Morceaux en forme de poire
Chabrier - 3 Valses romantiques
Faure - Dolly Suite, op.56

CD 44 (1961)
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto no.4
Fauré - Ballade, op.19; Preludes 1, 3 & 5

CD 45 (1962)
Mozart - Piano Concertos 26 & 27

CD 46 (1961)
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas 3-5

CD 47 (1962)
Mozart - Concerto for 3 pianos & orchestra, K242; Piano Quintet, K452
Bach - Concerto for 3 pianos & strings, BWV 1063

CD 48 (1961)
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas 2, 6 & 8

CD 49 (1963)
Bartók - Sonata for 2 pianos & percussion
Debussy - En blanc et noir; 6 Epigraphes antiques

CD 50 (1961)
Mozart - Piano Concertos 21 & 24

CD 51 (1961)
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas 7 & 10

CD 52 (1964)
Chopin - Piano Sonata no.3
Mozart - Piano Sonata no.12
Haydn - Divertimento Hob.XVI:46

CD 53 (1964 / 1944)
Bach - Concerto for 3 pianos & strings, BWV 1064
Casadesus - Concerto for 3 pianos & strings, op.65; Piano Concerto no.2 "For Dimitri Mitropoulos"

CD 54
Mozart - Piano Concertos 15 & 17

CD 55
Bach - Concertos for 2 pianos & strings, BWV 1060 & 1061; Violin Sonata, BWV 1015

CD 56
Casadesus - Homage à Chausson, op.51
Francescatti - 3 Preludes

CD 57
Chopin - Ballades 1-4
Schumann - Papillons, op.2

CD 58 (1960)
Schumann - Fantasie, op.17
Chopin - Berceuse, op.57; Tarantelle, op.43
Schumann - Vogel als Prophet

CD 59 (1964)
Mozart - Fantasia, K397
Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 28
Schumann - Symphonic Etudes, op.13

CD 60 (1964)
Ravel - Sonatine; Alborada del gracioso
Debussy - Preludes (excerpts); Arabesque no.2;
Mussorgsky - Bydlo

CD 61
Brahms - Violin Sonatas 1-3

CD 62
Debussy - Preludes Book 1 (Jean Casadesus, piano)

CD 63
Chabrier - Bourrée fantasque; 10 Pièces pittoresques; 5 Morceaux; Impromptu (Jean Casadesus, piano)

CD 64
Debussy - 5 Poèmes de Baudelaire; Fêtes Galantes; Voici que le printemps; L'âme évaporée; Mandoline; 3 Chansons de Bilitis (Anna Moffo, Jean Casadesus)

CD 65 (1957)
Casadesus - Piano Sonata no.4; 8 Etudes, op.28 (Gaby Casadesus, piano)