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This is the first of some exciting recommendations we hope to bring you over the coming months. All of our staff in the sheet music department have a particular expertise and this week it’s the turn of our resident piano expert, Pete Smith. He’ll be recommending five of his favourite publications, from Fauré, Rameau, Chabrier and Saint-Saens. All are in the very reasonably priced Dover editions and they’re available to buy direct from ourselves by phone. Without further ado…
Gabriel Fauré
Nocturnes and Barcarolles
£14.95
DP15231
The music of Fauré is an important link between the innovations of late Romanticism and the experimentation of the early 20th century. A student of Saint-Saëns, he, in turn, taught Ravel and was a mentor to the young modernists of Les Six. These 12 nocturnes and 12 barcarolles, composed over a span of 40 years, document his move from Romanticism to the frontiers of 20th-century music. Reprinted from authoritative French editions.
Gabriel Fauré
Complete Preludes, Impromptus and Valse Caprices
£11.95
DP13749
This superb volume brings together in one authoritative playing edition one of the most important segments of Faure’s works for piano: all of his nine preludes, five impromptus and four valse-caprices. Each of these distinctive compositions reveal Faure’s lyrical melodic gifts and innovative harmonies. Pianists of intermediate and advanced skills will find in this volume a unique opportunity to explore one of the most gifted and influential composers of the French School.
Emmanuel Chabrier
Works for Piano
£11.95
DP15423
More than anyone else of his century, Chabrier restored to French Music the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit and tenderness, at a crucial time when the music of his country was struggling under the influence of a Wagnerian hangover.
Ravel repeatedly named him as the composer who had influenced him more than any other. Debussy was entranced by his music. Poulenc declared the composer’s ‘Pieces Pittoresques’ as important as Debussy’s Preludes.
Included in this volume is the majority of Chabrier’s solo piano output, until now long unavailable.
Camille Saint-Saens
Danse Macabre and other works for solo piano
£14.95
DP16880
Splendid compilation featuring a variety of the composer’s best piano works, including Danse Macabre in the brilliant arrangement by Liszt, Allegro appassionato, Rhapsodie d’Auvergne, Theme and Variations, plus six etudes, three waltzes, and six etudes for left hand alone.
Jean-Phillipe Rameau
Complete works for solo keyboard
£11.95
DP15074
This volume contains all 63 of Rameau’s works for keyboard, published between 1706 and 1741, including the well-known pieces Musette en Rondeau, Tambourin, Les Nais de Sologne and La Poule. From the complete works edition edited by Camille Saint-Saens.