Chaminade - Piano Music Vol.2
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10249
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 7th October 2022
Contents
About
Chaminade is principally remembered today as a composer of salon music, but she began her career writing on a much grander scale and with loftier expressive ambitions, both for the piano and in other genres. Such ambitions leave a mark on the set of six Etudes de concert which Mark Viner has compiled from different opus numbers (distinct from the Op.35 set recorded on Volume 1), beginning in dazzling style with the flashing runs of the Etude romantique, op.132 and ending with the no-nonsense counterpoint of the Etude scolastique, op.139.
Au pays dévasté, op.155 (‘In the devastated country’), is one of Chaminade’s most profound conceptions, among the most serious of her late works, published in 1919 in the wake of the First World War, which she had spent as a nurse to wounded soldiers away from the front line. However, there is also plenty of Chaminade the charmer here, at the peak of her powers in the Six Pièces humoristiques – the first and last of which receive their world premiere recordings here.
The album opens with Ondine, among her most supple and delicately textured tone-poems, and closes with the irrepressibly cheeky Lolita, a ‘caprice espagnol’ worthy of Carmen herself. Further highlights in between include a swaying and sensuous Danse créole, op.94, and the offbeat, coquettish Guitare, op.34. Under Mark Viner’s fingers, Chaminade casts the same spell here as she did over audiences across Europe 150 years ago.
‘Showing the range and ambition of Chaminade in short works, played with an innate charm and understanding of the genre… most beautifully recorded… some day, someone will sit up and take note of what an exceptional talent we have in our midst.’ – Gramophone (Vol.1, PCL10164)
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