French Impressions: A Potpourri of Piano Styles from the Romantics to a New Age

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Label
Grand Piano
Release Date
June 10, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Claude Debussy, Vincent d'Indy, Benjamin Godard, Louis Theodore Gouvy, Camille Saint-Saens, Erik Sat
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 10, 2022
    • UPC
      747313990023
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GP900X
    • LABEL
      Grand Piano
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      6
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in D Minor, Op. 36

      Composer: Louis Théodore Gouvy

      Performer: Emile Naoumoff (piano), Yau Cheng (piano)

    2. Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in C Minor, Op. 49

      Composer: Louis Théodore Gouvy

      Performer: Emile Naoumoff (piano), Yau Cheng (piano)

    3. Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in F Major, Op. 51

      Composer: Louis Théodore Gouvy

      Performer: Emile Naoumoff (piano), Yau Cheng (piano)

    4. Bagatelles (2)

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    5. Antwort

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    6. Fantaisie sur la Quintette de L'Etoile du Nord de Meyerbeer

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    7. Valse du Prophete de Meyerbeer

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    8. Fantaisie sur Lohengrin de Wagner

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    9. Chœur des Derviches Tourneurs Tiré des Ruines d'Athénes de Beethoven

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    10. Paraphrase sur Gallia de Gounod

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    11. Scherzo sur Les Pècheurs de Perles de Bizet

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    12. La mort de Thaïs, paraphrase de concert pour piano sur l'opéra de Massenet

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    13. Improvisation sur la Beethoven-Cantate de Liszt

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    14. Africa, Op. 89

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

      Performer: Geoffrey Burleson (piano)

    15. L'enfant prodigue: Prélude

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    16. Rodrigue et Chimène: Prélude

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    17. Préludes, Book 1: No. 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    18. Prélude à l'histoire de Tristan

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    19. Préludes, Book 2: No. 5. Bruyères

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    20. Toomai des éléphants

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    21. Petite valse

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    22. Fêtes Galantes, Tableau 1: Les Masques

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    23. Le martyre de St. Sébastien, Act III: Le concile des faux dieux: La passion

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    24. No-Ja-Li (Le Palais du Silence)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    25. Le Roi Léar

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    26. Un jour affreux avec le Diable dans le Beffroi

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    27. La Chute de la Maison Usher

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    28. Pièce sans titre, "Caresse"

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    29. Je te veux

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    30. Jack In The Box

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    31. La mort de Monsieur Mouche: Prélude

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    32. Verset laïque et somptueux

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    33. Le Poisson rêveur (The Dreamy Fish), "Modéré"

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    34. Le bœuf Angora (The Angora Ox)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    35. Poudre d'or

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    36. Tendrement

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    37. Illusion

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    38. Le Piccadilly

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    39. La Diva de l'Empire (Marche chantée dans la Revue Dévidons la bobine!)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    40. La Diva de l'Empire (Intermezzo américain d'après la célèbre chanson de Bonnaud, Blès et Satie)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    41. Pousse l'amour: Chanson andalouse

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    42. [Exercise] [pour quatuor à cordes]

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    43. Fugue-valse

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    44. Passacaille

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Performer: Nicolas Horvath (piano)

    45. Piano Sonata in E, Op. 63

      Composer: Vincent d'Indy

      Conductor: Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano)

    46. Tableaux de voyage, Op. 33: excerpts

      Composer: Vincent d'Indy

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano)

    47. Reve vecu, Op. 140

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    48. Nocturne No. 1, Op. 68

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    49. Nocturne No. 2, Op. 90

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    50. Nocturne No. 3, Op. 139

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    51. Nocturne No. 4, Op. 150

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    52. 3 Morceaux, Op. 16

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    53. Fantaisie, Op. 143

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    54. Renouveau, Op. 82

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)

    55. Fragments poetiques, Op. 13

      Composer: Benjamin Godard

      Performer: Eliane Reyes (piano)


The range and variety of French piano music in the 19th and 20th centuries is exemplified in these critically acclaimed albums bringing together rarely encountered pieces, a number of which are performed on period instruments. Théodore Gouvy’s little-known sonatas and Benjamin Godard’s fragrant lyricism are part of a lineage that includes the masterful large-scale Piano Sonata of Vincent d’Indy, the virtuosic rarities – many in première recordings – of Saint-Saëns, Satie’s tenderness and wit, and unknown piano versions of some of Debussy’s greatest orchestral masterpieces.

Review excerpts of previously released volumes included in this set:

Gouvy: Sonatas for Piano 4 Hands / Naoumoff, Yau Cheng

Their ensemble and musicality allow these works to be heard in their best light. The sound is excellent and the booklet notes are quite well written.

-- American Record Guide

Saint-Saëns: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 / Burleson

Burleson proves to be a fine advocate for this music: He balances just the right amount of elegance and grace with the fieriness that this music requires. And he is a virtuoso par excellence, easily handling the numerous difficulties one finds in this music.

-- Fanfare

Godard: Piano Works, Vol. 2 / Reyes

Reyes’s second volume of Godard’s piano works is as well played and brimming with new discoveries as her first volume. Here we get four nocturnes, two of which look back to Chopin, One (Op 139) looks forward to Poulenc, and the last (Op. 150) looks towards Fauré. The opening work, ‘Reve Vecu’ (Living a Dream) could easily be classified as a nocturne as well. All give Reyes the opportunity to make use of her wonderful legato touch.

-- American Record Guide