Chabrier: Works for Piano.

Description

Twenty of the finest solo piano pieces by this rediscovered French master. Edited by pianist and musical scholar Roy Howat. More than anyone else of his century, Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 – 1894) restored to French music the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit and tenderness, at a crucial time when music in his country was struggling under a Wagnerian hangover on the one hand and academic dryness on the other.

Contents:

1. Impromptu.
2. Ronde Champetre (Rustic Round).
3. Petite Valse (Little Waltz).
4. Pieces Pittoresques (Picturesque Pieces) – Paysage (Landscape).
5. Melancolie (Melancholy).
6. Tourbillon (Whirlwind).
7. Sous Bois (In the Woods).
8. Mauresque (In Moorish Style).
9. Idylle (Idyll).
10. Danse Villageoise (Village Dance).
11. Improvisation.
12. Menuet Pompeux (Festive Minuet).
13. Scherzo-Valse (Scherzo-Waltz).
14. Aubade (Dawn Serenade).
15. Habanera.
16. Ballabile (Dancelike).
17. Caprice.
18. Feuillet d’Album (Albumleaf).
19. Joyeuse Marche (Joyous March).
20. Bourree Fantasque (Fantastic Bourree).