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Lekeu: Complete Piano Works / Salvatori
Piano Classics

Lekeu: Complete Piano Works / Salvatori

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Composer
Guillaume Lekeu
Artist
Jacopo Salvatori
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Jan 05, 2024
Catalog #
PCL10289
UPC
5029365102896

About

The most complete set of Lekeu’s piano music ever recorded, demonstrating the full range of genius cut off in his prime.

After his death from typhoid fever at the age of just 24, in January 1894, Debussy and many others lamented the passing of a musician with the world at his feet. ‘There is a Belgian school,’ wrote Debussy in 1896. ‘Next to Franck, Lekeu is one of its most remarkable representatives, this Lekeu, the only musician to my knowledge whom Beethoven really inspired.’

Partly due to his sudden demise, very little of his extant music has been published; among the works for piano only the monumental, five-movement Sonata in G minor, an album of three beautiful short pieces written in 1892, and a Mazurka. Jacopo Salvatori demonstrates, on this groundbreaking new album, how much else there is for pianophiles and enthusiasts for French romanticism to enjoy.

In his booklet note, Salvatori describes how he tracked down the manuscripts for several pieces heard here effectively for the first time. They include a beautiful four voices fugue written in 1889, a piece clearly influenced by the teaching of Franck. There is also a series called Morceaux egoists, of which some are lost, but there are pointers in what survives towards a different side of Lekeu to the one known from the familiar, Wagnerian richness of the Violin Sonata. Even the Piano Sonata takes on a different complexion as potentially more of a Suite, somewhat loosely assembled, but unified by a poetic motto from the writer George Vanor. Shedding such light on Lekeu makes Salvatori’s album a unique and valuable contribution to the appreciation of a still little-known but powerfully talented voice of the Belle Epoque.

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Chansonette sans paroles 01:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Chansonette sans paroles
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  2. 2 No. 2. Valse oubliee 03:46
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Valse oubliee
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  3. 3 No. 3. Danse joyeuse 03:36
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Danse joyeuse
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  4. 4 Berceuse 02:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    Berceuse
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  5. 5 I. Prelude 02:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  6. 6 II. Fugue 07:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Fugue
    Duration
    07:31
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  7. 7 III. Fugue 03:38
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Fugue
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  8. 8 IV. Dans un mouvement plus lent 05:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Dans un mouvement plus lent
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  9. 9 V. Finale 03:28
    Track
    9
    Title
    V. Finale
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  10. 10 Berceuse 02:29
    Track
    10
    Title
    Berceuse
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  11. 11 Valse 02:29
    Track
    11
    Title
    Valse
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  12. 12 Andantino semplice e molto espressivo 00:47
    Track
    12
    Title
    Andantino semplice e molto espressivo
    Duration
    00:47
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  13. 13 Tempo di Mazurka 10:06
    Track
    13
    Title
    Tempo di Mazurka
    Duration
    10:06
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  14. 14 I. Allegro marcato 01:42
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Allegro marcato
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  15. 15 II. Andante 03:03
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  16. 16 III. Andantino malinconico 03:27
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. Andantino malinconico
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  17. 17 IV. Andante 02:59
    Track
    17
    Title
    IV. Andante
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  18. 18 V. Andante, pour moi seul 04:25
    Track
    18
    Title
    V. Andante, pour moi seul
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  19. 19 Adagio religioso col più grand' espressione 04:38
    Track
    19
    Title
    Adagio religioso col più grand' espressione
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  20. 20 Morceaux egoistes 11:31
    Track
    20
    Title
    Morceaux egoistes
    Duration
    11:31
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  21. 21 Moderato quasi largo 08:31
    Track
    21
    Title
    Moderato quasi largo
    Duration
    08:31
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  22. 22 Pastorale 00:37
    Track
    22
    Title
    Pastorale
    Duration
    00:37
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori
  23. 23 Fuga 07:58
    Track
    23
    Title
    Fuga
    Duration
    07:58
    Composer
    Guillaume Lekeu
    Performer
    Jacopo Salvatori