1CD (82'37)
CÉCILE CHAMINADE
1. Air de Ballet Op 30
2. Pas des écharpes from Callirhoë Op 37
3. Courante Op 95 No 3
4. Les sylvains Op 60
5. Danse créole (2nd Havanaise) Op 94
6. Pierrette – Air de Ballet Op 41
7. La lisonjera Op 50
Recorded in London in November 1901
LILIAN BRYANT
8. Toccata Op 39
Recorded in London in 1912
UNA BOURNE
9. Valse caprice Op 33
10. Air de Ballet from Callirhoë Op 37
11. Étude romantique Op 132
12. Quatrième valse Op 91
13. Interlude Op 152
Recorded in Hayes, London in 1914–1916
WILLIAM MURDOCH
14. Danse créole (2nd Havanaise) Op 94
15. Sérénade in D major Op 29
Recorded in London in 1917
RUDOLPH GANZ
16. Pas des écharpes from Callirhoë Op 37
Recorded in New York in 1918
GERTRUDE MELLER
17. Air de Ballet Op 30
Recorded in London in 1922
MARIE NOVELLO
8. Pas des Amphores from Callirhoë Op 37
Recorded in London in 1923
MAX DAREWSKI
19. Fileuse Op 35 No 3
20. Arlequine Op 53
Recorded in Hayes, London, in 1923 & 1924
MAURICE COLE
21. Scherzo in C major Op 35 No 1
Recorded in London in 1925
UNA BOURNE
22. Aubade Op 140
23. Valse-Arabesque Op 98 No 4
24. Nocturne Op 165
25. Berceuse arabe Op 166
Recorded in Hayes, London, in 1925 & 1926
HANS BARTH
26. La lisonjera Op 50
Recorded in Camden, New Jersey, USA, in 1926
MARK HAMBOURG
27. Automne Op 35 No 2
Recorded in Small Queen’s Hall, London, in 1930
SHURA CHERKASSKY
28. Autrefois Op 87 No 4
Recorded in Abbey Road Studios, London in 1950
The recent ‘discovery’ of the music of Cécile 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 the recording industry, up to 1930, 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.
APR5647 Available on Compact Disc, as a Digital Download and to Stream