Two CDs. Daniel Hope's double album Belle Epoque highlights classical repertoire that emerged in the gilded era bookended by the Franco-Prussian War and the start of World War I. Uniting late Romantic and Impressionist pieces as well as early works from the Second Viennese School, the album features favorites such as Massenet's Meditation, Debussy's Rˆverie, and Strauss's Morgen, as well as rarely heard masterpieces by Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, and Elgar.