Symétrie

Hélène de Montgeroult wrote a landmark in the history of the piano music literature: the Cours complet containing 114 studies and variations, one fugue and one fantaisie, and constituting a key link b...

Le Rêve du monde (The Dream of the World), a 25-minute piano piece in 4 movements, was written in May 1993 and created by Olivier Greif within the following months. In May 1993, Le Rêve du monde was d...

This Mass, written by Puccini during his studies, normally requires an orchestra. The version for two pianos presented here preserves a large dynamic space, thanks to the orchestrator's skill, and mak...

Jean Cras (1879-1932) didn't write much for the piano, an instrument he besides played very well, as he fluently played the violin, the viola and the organ. His piano masterpiece, the Danze (1917), is...

Most of the pieces in this set date from 1994, but some of them were written in 1983 for an earlier project, Hommage à Watteau: the idea of a French-type carnival, owing as much to the paintings of Wa...

The Piano Concerto in B minor op. 3 (MoszWV 160) was composed during his time in Berlin at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst where Moszkowski became a teacher in 1872 while he was still a student. Togeth...

Soliloquy: 'speak alone'. But to speak alone is a delusion. Even to the double, the 'doppelgänger', that we take with us wherever we go (for eternity, alas!), words say too much, and never enough; ref...

Soliloquy: 'speak alone'. But to speak alone is a delusion. Even to the double, the 'doppelgänger', that we take with us wherever we go (for eternity, alas!), words say too much, and never enough; ref...

Soliloquy: 'speak alone'. But to speak alone is a delusion. Even to the double, the 'doppelgänger', that we take with us wherever we go (for eternity, alas!), words say too much, and never enough; ref...

I composed these preludes for my friend Charles Lavaud, who plays Mompou with a rare and moving complicity. This is in no way an addition—or variant or touch-up—to my 24 Preludes published by Durand (...

There are three piano sonatas by Reicha entitled "Grande Sonate". Despite the French title, they were written when Reicha was living in Vienna, before his final move to Paris in 1808. At that time, in...

There are three piano sonatas by Reicha entitled "Grande Sonate". Despite the French title, they were written when Reicha was living in Vienna, before his final move to Paris in 1808. At that time, in...

There are three piano sonatas by Reicha entitled "Grande Sonate". Despite the French title, they were written when Reicha was living in Vienna, before his final move to Paris in 1808. At that time, in...

The first two movements of this edition of the Sonata in F are based on the sole surviving source, the manuscript Ms 2501 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. At the end of the second, the words "...

This edition of La Pastorale is based on the sole surviving source, the manuscript Ms 12061 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The work was probably written around 1800. The predominant key of F...

This edition of the Sonata in D is based on the sole surviving sources, the manuscripts Ms 2501 and Ms 2502 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. This piece was composed probably around 1804-1805,...

This edition of the work entitled Capriccio, written in about 1800, is based on the manuscripts Ms 12077 and 2496 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The latter is a collection, with the title Pr...

This edition of the work entitled Harmonie, written in about 1800, is based on the manuscripts Ms 12068 and 2496 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The latter is a collection, with the title Pra...

This edition of the Variations on a theme by Gluck is based on the sole existent source, that is, the edition published during the composer's lifetime by Gambaro of Paris. The opening theme, on which...

This edition of La Chercheuse d'esprit is based on the sole surviving source, the manuscript Ms 12066 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The subtitle is xiii Ariettes françoises du Seizième Sièc...

This edition of the work entitled Mesure composée [Combined Metre], written probably in the mid-1790s, is based on the manuscripts Ms 12079 and 2496 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The latter...

This edition of the work entitled Fantaisie sur un seul accord [Fantasia on a Single Chord], written in about 1800, is based on the manuscripts Ms 12063 and 2496 of the Bibliothèque nationale de Franc...

This edition of the Sonata in G major, Op. 46, No. 1, is based on that of the Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte (Three Sonatas for Pianoforte) published in 1804 by Breitkopf & Härtel. With the exceptio...

This edition of the Sonata in B flat major, Op. 46, No. 2, is based on that of the Trois Sonates pour le Pianoforte (Three Sonatas for Pianoforte) published in 1804 by Breitkopf & Härtel. With the exc...