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Chabrier, Kyriakou
Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier Complete Piano Music / Rena Kyriakou (2 CDs)
Genres: Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Paysage
2. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: M?lancolie
3. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Tourbillon
4. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Sous-bois
5. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Mauresque
6. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Idylle
7. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Danse Villageoise
8. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Improvisation
9. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Menuet Pompeux
10. Pi?ces pittoresques (10), for piano: Scherzo-Valse
11. Pi?ces posthumes (5), for piano: Aubade
12. Pi?ces posthumes (5), for piano: Ballabile
13. Pi?ces posthumes (5), for piano: Caprice
14. Pi?ces posthumes (5), for piano: Feuillet D'Album
15. Pi?ces posthumes (5), for piano: Ronde Champ?tre
16. Bourr?e fantasque, for piano (also for orchestra)
Track Listings (9) - Disc #2
1. Impromptu, for piano in C major
2. Haba?era, for piano (or orchestra)
3. Air de ballet, for piano
4. Suite de valses, for piano
5. Marche des Cipayes, for piano
6. Valses romantiques (3), for 2 pianos or orchestra
7. Souvenirs de Munich, quadrille on themes from Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde, ' for piano, 4 hands
8. Capriccio, for piano
9. Pas redoubl? (renamed 'Cort?ge burlesque'), for solo piano or piano, 4 hands

CD Details

All Artists: Chabrier, Kyriakou
Title: Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier Complete Piano Music / Rena Kyriakou (2 CDs)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Vox (Classical)
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 8/22/1994
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Marches, Opera & Classical Vocal, Forms & Genres, Suites, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 047163510823

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Chabrier's music isn't exactly essential for life, but it is extremely lighthearted and entertaining most of the time. This set, advertised as complete, may be missing some trivial brief items. But the essential Chabrier for piano, including his pieces for four hands, is all here, in performances whose spirit matches the essence of the music. Kyriakou's playing on most of the solo pieces matches Alain Planès performance on Harmonia Mundi HMC 901465, but Kyriakou's single disc costs more than this set. And don't miss the four-hand Souvenirs de Munich, a delightful nose-thumbing parody of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. --Leslie Gerber

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CD Reviews

Imaginative & engaging music

Tom Poore | South Euclid, OH | 03/08/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Great composers cast a shadow that often obscures lesser but still excellent talents. Emmanuel Chabrier seldom gets his due as a piano composer, and that's a shame. His music is well crafted, imaginative, and engaging. In the hands of a good artist, it can't fail to please. Greek pianist Rene Kyriakou (1918-1994) was just the right artiist for the job. Though not well known today, Kyriakou was a fine pianist with a sure feel for Chabrier's music. (It didn't hurt that she was a composer herself.) And she and Walter Klien play as one in the piano duets.

Angela Hewitt recently recorded an excellent all Chabrier CD. With Kyriakou, however, you get all his piano music, including the piano duets, in top flight performances. Although these recordings were made in 1965, the sound is good. Coupled with Vox's low price, you can't go wrong. Treat yourself to this wonderful music."