Catherine Massip

Saint-Saëns' "Six Études pour piano" op. 52, ein Werk der Reifezeit, erschienen 1877, etwa zur selben Zeit wie seine Oper "Samson et Dalila". Die zweite der Etüden war 1868 ursprünglich für die "École...

More than 20 years after op. 52, Saint-Saëns turned once more to the genre of the concert etude. In 1892, he wrote an etude that was initially intended for publication in a magazine and later was to b...

Saint-Saëns' etudes for the left hand were written in 1912 at the request of his pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury de Serres, who had suffered an injury to her right hand. These etudes which we...

What is hidden behind the seductively hypnotic repeating theme of Couperin's Les Baricades Mistérieuses? The original allusion of the title is long forgotten, though tantalizing theories abound, but t...

'The Etudes op. 52 and op. 111 are little masterpieces of invention. On every page you encounter ingenious inventions for piano technique and sound.' (Isidore Philipp) What Isidore Philipp described...

Saint-Saëns' "Six Études pour piano" op. 52, a work from his mature period, was published in 1877, around the same time as his opera "Samson et Dalila". The second of the etudes was originally written...

More than 20 years after op. 52, Saint-Saëns returned to the concert étude genre. In 1892, he wrote an etude initially intended for publication in a magazine, the later No. 1. However, on the advice o...

Saint-Saëns' Etudes for the left hand were commissioned in 1912 by his pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury de Serres, who had suffered an injury to her right hand. Saint-Saëns originally titled t...