Cecile Chaminade & Her Contemporaries Play Chaminade

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APR
Release Date
February 21, 2025
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Cecile Chaminade
    • PERFORMER
      Cecile Chaminade, Lilian Bryant, Una Bourne, William Murdoch, Rudolph Ganz, Gertrude Meller, Marie N
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 21, 2025
    • UPC
      5024709156474
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      APR5647
    • LABEL
      APR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Air de ballet, Op. 30

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Cécile Chaminade

    2. Callirhoë, Op. 37: No. 3. Pas des Écharpes (Scarf Dance)

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Cécile Chaminade

    3. 3 Danses anciennes, Op. 95: No. 3. Courante

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Cécile Chaminade

    4. Les Sylvains, Op. 60

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Cécile Chaminade

    5. Danse creole, Op. 94

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Cécile Chaminade

    6. Pierrette, Op. 41, "Air de Ballet"

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Cécile Chaminade

    7. La Lisonjera, Op. 50

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Cécile Chaminade

    8. Toccata, Op. 39

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Lilian Bryant

    9. Valse-Caprice, Op. 33

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    10. Callirhoë, Op. 37: No. 1. Air de ballet

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    11. Etude romantique, Op. 132

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    12. Valse No. 4, Op. 91

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    13. Interlude, Op. 152

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    14. Danse creole, Op. 94

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: William Murdoch

    15. Sérénade, Op. 29

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: William Murdoch

    16. Callirhoë, Op. 37: No. 3. Pas des Écharpes (Scarf Dance)

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Rudolph Ganz

    17. Air de ballet, Op. 30

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Gertrude Meller

    18. Callirhoë, Op. 37: No. 2. Pas de Amphores

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Marie Novello

    19. 6 Études de concert, Op. 35: No. 3. Fileuse: Allegro

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Max Darewski

    20. Arlequine, Op. 53

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Max Darewski

    21. 6 Études de concert, Op. 35: No. 1. Scherzo: Allegro

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Maurice Cole

    22. Aubade, Op. 140

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    23. Feuillets d'Album, Op. 98: No. 4. Valse arabesque

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    24. Nocturne, Op. 165

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    25. Berceause Arabe, Op. 166

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Una Mabel Bourne

    26. La Lisonjera, Op. 50

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Hans Barth

    27. 6 Études de concert, Op. 35: No. 2. Autumn: Lento

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Mark Hambourg

    28. 6 Pieces humoristiques, Op. 87: No. 4. Autrefois

      Composer: Cécile Chaminade

      Performer: Shura Cherkassky


The recent 'discovery' of the music of Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) belies the fact that in the early years of the 20th century she was immensely popular, touring both Europe and the US as a pianist, exclusively in her own music. Changing fashions brought an abrupt end to this fame, but in the first thirty years of recording, over 80 discs of her piano music alone were released. Her own discs from 1901, presented complete here, are some of the earliest by a classical pianist. Many of her most popular pieces were recorded multiple times, but this set presents chronologically at least one version of every work recorded on 78s and introduces as many different pianists as practical.