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Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier
- Impromptu
- Ronde champêtre
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Paysage
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Mélancolie
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Tourbillon
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Sous-bois
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Mauresque
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Idylle
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Danse villageoise
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Improvisation
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Menuet pompeux
- Dix Pièces pittoresques: Scherzo-valse
- Aubade
- Ballabile
- Caprice
- Feuillet d'album
- Habanera
- Bourrée fantasque
Angela Hewitt, piano
Date: 2006
Label: Hyperion
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67515
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Review
Chabrier’s name lives on primarily through España and Marche joyeuse.
His tiny output for piano is far too rarely encountered in the concert
hall or on recordings, yet he is a delightful, self-contained original.
From his total of a mere 26 titles, Angela Hewitt plays 18 on this
little gem of a disc.
As it happened, I listened first to Habanera
(track 17), one of my favourites, a languid, sensuous dance, and was
struck by the unusual acoustic. It sounds as though the piano was
recorded in some deserted fin de siècle spa hotel – and so it
proves, for Hewitt’s richly coloured Fazioli was captured in ‘Das
Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel, Dobbiaco, Italy’, conjuring up images of
cobwebbed spa patients shuffling vacantly round the dance floor before
their next treatment.
In fact, whenever there is an exposed soft
passage in the upper treble in this programme, the same atmospheric
effect engages the ear momentarily; in the more robust items, it is
hardly noticeable. As a piano recording, it is far preferable to Pierre
Barbizet’s dry and close-miked 1982 Chabrier collection (Erato – nla),
but his discs feature the complete works.
As to Hewitt’s
performances, they are as affectionate, warm, lyrical and charming as
one could wish, underlining but not exaggerating Chabrier’s deliciously
predictable unpredictability. Though a tad slower than Barbizet in the
two virtuoso numbers, Scherzo-valse and Bourrée fantasque (what splendid encores they would make), Hewitt’s sparkling playfulness somehow makes them sound more vivacious.
-- Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone
More reviews:
ClassicsToday ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9
BBC Music Magazine PERFORMANCE: **** / SOUND: ***
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Emmanuel Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas (including L'étoile), songs, and piano music. He was admired by composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Satie, Schmitt, Stravinsky, and the group Les six. Mahler called España "the beginnings of modern music". Chabrier was also associated with some of the leading writers and painters of his time, such as Claude Monet and Édouard Manet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Chabrier
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Angela Hewitt (born July 26, 1958) is a British/Canadian classical pianist. She is most well known for her cycle of Bach recordings covering all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach. Her discography also includes works by Couperin, Rameau, Messiaen, Chabrier, Ravel, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and Fauré. In recent years, she records using her own piano, a Fazioli F308 grand. Hewitt was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on June 17, 2006 and Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Hewitt
http://www.angelahewitt.com/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Chabrier
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Angela Hewitt (born July 26, 1958) is a British/Canadian classical pianist. She is most well known for her cycle of Bach recordings covering all the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach. Her discography also includes works by Couperin, Rameau, Messiaen, Chabrier, Ravel, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and Fauré. In recent years, she records using her own piano, a Fazioli F308 grand. Hewitt was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on June 17, 2006 and Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Hewitt
http://www.angelahewitt.com/
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