Yvonne Lefebure was a versatile and culturally aware musician, who was awarded countless accolades in varied disciplines: naturally for her piano playing, but also in harmony, accompaniment, in counterpoint and in fugue. Thanks to her emotional and expressive playing she was a great favourite as concert pianist with conductors such as Igor Markevitch, Sir Adrian BouIt, Wilhelm Furtwangler and especially Pablo Casals, who throughout the 5Os and 60s regularly engaged her for his festivals in Prades and Perpignan. Sadly - in comparison with other great pianists - Yvonne Lefebure made relatively few recordings: which makes this 5-CD set even more important. CD 1 is dedicated exclusively to Beethoven, CD 2 to Mozart and Beethoven, CD 3 to Johann Sebastian Bach, CD 4 in particular ( but with the exception of Chopin) to the French musical Impressionists, and finally CD 5 contains concertos for pianoforte by Mozart and Schumann. The oldest recordings in this collection are the Rameau Variations by Paul Dukas (CD 4) dating from 1935; the most recent are on CD 2 and date from 1959 with Mozart's Violin Sonata K379 and Beethoven's 'Pathetique'. The majority of the recordings in this edition were made in the 1950s.