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The French composer’s shapeshifting piano works have a great champion in Nicolas Horvath; and Ben Goldscheider and co revel in Gipps’s chamber music• The prolific French composer Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) showed her sense of rebellion early by changing her name from Taillefesse as a rebuff to her father, who objected to her musical ambitions. For too long, her work has been neglected. In Germaine Tailleferre: Her Piano Works, Revived 1 (Grand Piano) the pianist Nicolas Horvath has embarked on an invaluable project, including several world premiere recordings.Hanging out in artist circles in Montmartre in the 1920s, Tailleferre was the only female in the group of composers known as Les Six (others included Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud). In her comprehensive liner notes, Caroline Potter writes that Tailleferre composed at the piano, making it hard to know how many works were starting points for other music: this disc alone has 55 tracks, some gathered together in groups: Fleurs de France (1930), Suite dans le style Louis XV, and transcriptions by Monteverdi, Lully, Scarlatti and others. Continue reading...