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The first volume of Cécile Chaminade’s piano music on Piano Classics won the same kind of universal accolades as the rest of Mark Viner’s fast-growing catalogue of albums for the label. His masterful advocacy is helping her to regain the reputation she enjoyed during her lifetime, when she could count Queen Victoria among her legion of ardent fans, in a long and fruitful career capped by becoming the first female composer to be awarded the "Legion d’honneur", in 1913 – when she still had more than 30 years of productive music-making ahead of her.
The reason for Chaminade’s popularity is the charm, tunefulness and general accessibility of her music. It touches a ready chord with every music lover, and the fancy titles and not overly virtuosic piano writing made that her works became drawing room favorites of the epoch. 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 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. © Piano Classics
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Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
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Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
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Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Cecile Chaminade, Composer - Mark Viner, Artist, MainArtist - Piano Classics, MusicPublisher
2022 Brilliant Classics 2022 Brilliant Classics
Albumbeschreibung
The first volume of Cécile Chaminade’s piano music on Piano Classics won the same kind of universal accolades as the rest of Mark Viner’s fast-growing catalogue of albums for the label. His masterful advocacy is helping her to regain the reputation she enjoyed during her lifetime, when she could count Queen Victoria among her legion of ardent fans, in a long and fruitful career capped by becoming the first female composer to be awarded the "Legion d’honneur", in 1913 – when she still had more than 30 years of productive music-making ahead of her.
The reason for Chaminade’s popularity is the charm, tunefulness and general accessibility of her music. It touches a ready chord with every music lover, and the fancy titles and not overly virtuosic piano writing made that her works became drawing room favorites of the epoch. 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 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. © Piano Classics
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:39
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Mark Viner
- Composer: Cécile Chaminade
- Label: Piano Classics
- Genre: Klassiek
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