Francis POULENC: Les Soirées de Nazelles (1). Pierre de BRÉVILLE: Portraits de maîtres (2). Florent SCHMITT: Valse-Nocturne-No. 1 (2). Carlos GUASTAVINO: Bailecito (3). Heitor VILLA-LOBOS: Dansa do Indio Branco, from Ciclo Brasileiro, No. 4 (3). Wilhelm STENHAMMAR: Poco allegretto, from Sensommernätter, Op. 33/5 (4). Alexander SCRIABIN: 4 Preludes, Op. 22 (4). Kaikhosru S. SORABJI: Étude transcendente No. 13 (4). Giuseppe VERDI: Romanza in F (5). Julian SCRIABIN: Prélude, Op. 2. 2 Préludes, Op. 3. Prélude (1919) (5). Mikhail GLINKA: Brilliant Variations, on a theme from Donizetti's 'Anna Bolena' (6).
Jonathan Plowright (1), Marie-Catherine Girod (2), Arturo Sudbrack Jamardo (3), Fredrik Ullén (4), Andrea Barchetti (5), Elena Kuschnerova (6) (pfs.).
Amazingly, this is the 15th annual instalment in the series of 'Piano Rarities' recorded at the Husum Festival - and the winning formula continues to work wonderfully well! This year's issue contains first recordings of works by Florent Schmitt, Pierre de Bréville (both played by Marie-Catherine Girod), Kaikhosru Sorabji and Giuseppe Verdi (incredibly, his only piece for piano!). as well as a superb complete performance of Poulenc's 'Les soirées de Nazelles' by our own Jonathan Plowright. As ever, a magical mixture. |
