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These 7 CDs take us from the '30s to the '70s as we hear the great EMI recordings by Fournier, whose sensitive, lyrical style earned him the sobriquet "The Aristocrat of the Cellists." You'll hear Schumann's Cello Concerto in A Minor; Brahms' Double Concerto in A Minor; Tchaikovsky's 4 Variations on a Rococo Theme in A Major; Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B Minor; Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor; Schubert's Sonata in A Minor for Arpeggione and Piano; Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; Poulenc's Sonata for Cello and Piano, plus selections by Bach, Haydn, Carl Maria Von Weber, Fauré, Ravel, Stravinsky, Debussy and more!