Cécile Chaminade - 7 titles (1901 London)
CHAMINADE Air de Ballet Op.30 • Pas des écharpes (Callirhoe Op.37)
Courante (Danse ancienne Op.95/3) • Les Sylvains Op.60 • Danse Créole Op.94
L'Enjoleuse Op.50 • Pierrette Op.41
Camille Saint-Saëns - 9 titles (1904 Paris)
SAINT-SAENS Improvised cadenza on Afrique Op.89
Valse mignonne Op.104 • Valse nonchalante Op.110
extracts from Piano Concerto No.2 in g Op.22 • Rhapsodie d'Auvergne Op.73
Ascanio - Air of Scozzone • Réverie • La Solitaire (Mélodie Persane)
Samson et Dalila - Printemps qui commence
above 4 with Meyrianne Héglon (mezzo-soprano)
also 7 titles (1919 Paris)
Le Déluge - Prelude Op.45 • Elégie Op.143 • Havanaise Op.83
above 3 with Gabriel Willaume (violin)
Rêverie du soir à Blidah (Suite Algérienne Op.60/3) • Première Mazurka Op.21
Marche militaire française (Suite Algérienne Op.60/4) •Valse mignonne Op.104
Here is an important historical sound document... Cécile Louise Stéphane Chaminade (1857-1944) virtually invented French salon music and to be able to hear her complete recordings for the first time since they were made a century ago is an illustration of the medium of the Compact Disc at its best... To hear Saint-Saëns himself in an extract from the first movement of the G minor Concerto (sans orchestre) is truly wondrous... Saint-Saëns is every bit as facile and dextrous as contemporary reports suggest, constantly pushing the music forward  sometimes impatiently  in playing of great character and finesse...The compilations, transfers production and notes are... a class act. IRR (UK)