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Reynaldo Hahn: Complete Piano Music

This video set presents the complete piano works by Hahn, including the cycle “Le Rossignol Ă©perdu”. Hahn is the master of the small form, the exquisite miniature: charming, perfumed, nostalgic or gay, his piano works enchant the listener in their fantasy and poetry.

Composer: Reynaldo Hahn
Artist: Alessandro Deljavan (piano)

First released in 2015, unavailable now for some time, this complete survey of Reynaldo Hahn’s piano music features several first recordings as well as a feast of charming and unfamiliar music from the golden age of the French salon.

Though he is probably now best known for a stream of winning and witty songs, the shimmering diversity of Hahn’s output for solo piano bears the mark of quintessentially French qualities, as though the Venezuelan composer was seeking to demonstrate that Paris was his true home.

Many pieces here derive their refined charm not only from their elegance, their lightness of touch and sensuous harmony – all ‘French’ qualities by association – but Hahn is still capable of springing surprises throughout the novel forms and piquant harmonies of his most substantial collection, Le rossignol Ă©perdu.

Themes running through this music are deft portraits of people, landscapes and seas: a quartet of painters inspired by the poetry of Proust (1894); from two years earlier, an 11-minute suite dedicated to moonlight (Au clair de lune); a sextet of delicious Asian and near-Eastern evocations such as a nocturne over the Bosphorus. Hahn readily adopts a neoclassical costume when it suits him, in eight tone-paintings of Versailles and the ThÚme varié sur le nom de Haydn which he was invited to write in 1910 as a centenary tribute alongside Debussy and the other French greats of their day.

Alessandro Deljavan began studying the piano when he was not quite two years old.
By the age of 16, he had already graduated from his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He has performing worldwide, and been placed highly in many competitions such as the Van Cliburn in Texas.

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Marc André Hamelin: Tiny Desk Concert

Tom Huizenga | January 12, 2023
Marc-André Hamelin has a marvelous, curious mind. While we chatted before his Tiny Desk concert, he snooped around the CD shelves near my desk, commenting on a few rarities and sharing his own eclectic tastes, including a crazy YouTube mashup of all 15 Shostakovich symphonies stacked on top of each other.

The Boston-based Montreal native is regarded as one of his generation’s most technically astounding pianists, but he’s no empty virtuoso. His interpretations are probing, precise and warm — keen to bring out humor when necessary. He routinely performs the world’s most treacherous repertoire with his characteristic ease. I’ve witnessed him practically reduce a concert grand to matchsticks, and I’ve heard him tenderly caress a late Schubert sonata.

Hamelin’s colossal breadth of repertoire is on display in this smart set of pieces. He begins in the 18th century with the off-kilter antics of C.P.E. Bach — a rondo that stops, starts and swerves with the spirit of improvisation. His limpid rendition of William Bolcom’s “Graceful Ghost Rag” (from 1970) emphasizes the bittersweet harmonies with unhurried elegance.

Hamelin saves the rock and roll for last — a piece of his own based on what he calls “possibly the oldest popular song in existence.” Filtered through his lightning-fast fingers, the medieval tune “L’homme armĂ©â€ struts mischievously, cascades swiftly and expands to a thunderhead of glorious sound.

SET LIST:
C.P.E. Bach: Rondo in C Minor
William Bolcom: “Graceful Ghost Rag”
Marc-AndrĂ© Hamelin: Toccata on “L’homme armĂ©â€

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Edvard Grieg - 37 Lyric Pieces / REMASTERED (Century's recording: Walter Gieseking)

Gieseking recorded the Lyric Pieces in 1956, shortly before his death, having recorded five of them eight years previously, in 1948. The differences are marginal but illuminating, yet in both versions you will hear playing where a truly transcendental pianism is at the service of a total affinity with Grieg's elusive idiom. In the Waltz (Op.12 No.2) Gieseking's delectable lightness is achieved with the most audaciously spare pedaling (a lesson for all less aurally aware pianists). In Grandmother's minuet (Op.68 No.2) he gives us a spry and elegantly tripping old lady, but in Puck (Op.71 No.3) and March of the dwarfs (Op.54 No.3) we are made aware of sinister and supernatural as well as playful possibilities. A unique artist, Gieseking's sublime indifference to difficulty allowed him to recreate with supersensitive antennae the very heart of the matter...

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) 17 Songs without Words by Walter Gieseking

Book 1, Op. 19b (1829-1830)
00:00 I. Andante con moto, in E Major, Op. 19 No. 1
04:49 VI. Andante sostenuto, in G minor, Op. 19 No. 6 “Venetian Gondola Song”
Book 2, Op. 30 (1833-1834)
07:24 VI. Allegretto, in F-Sharp minor, Op. 30 No. 6 “Venetian Gondola Song”
Book 3, Op. 38 (1836-1837)
11:04 IV. Andante, in A Major, Op. 38 No. 4
13:42 VI. Andante con moto, in A-Flat Major, Op. 38 No. 6 “Duetto”
Book 4, Op. 53 (1839-1841)
18:36 II. Allegro non troppo, in E-Flat Major, Op. 53 No. 2
21:22 III. Presto agitato, in G minor, Op. 53 No. 3
24:17 IV. Adagio, in F Major, Op. 53 No. 4
Book 5, Op. 62 (1842-1844)
26:50 I. Andante espressivo, in G Major, Op. 62 No. 1
29:09 V. Andante, in A minor, Op. 62 No. 5 “Venetian Gondola Song”
32:04 VI. Andante grazioso, in A Major, Op. 62 No. 6 “FrĂŒhlingslied”
Book 6, Op. 67 (1843-1845)
34:53 III. Andante tranquillo, in B-Flat Major, Op. 67 No. 3
37:38 IV. Presto, in C Major, Op. 67 No. 4 “Spinnerlied: The Bee’s Wedding”
Book 7, Op. 85 (1834-1845)
39:30 IV. Andante sostenuto, in D Major, Op. 85 No. 4
42:17 VI. Allegretto con moto, in B-Flat Major, Op. 85 No. 6
Book 8, Op. 102 (1842-1845)
45:40 III. Adagio, in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2
47:07 V. Un poco agitato, in G minor, Op. 102 No. 4

Piano: Walter Gieseking
Recorded in 1956, at London
New mastering in 2022 by AB for CMRR

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