Piano Duet (1 Piano, 4
Hands)
SKU:
HL.285230
Piano
Duet. Composed by
Reynaldo Hahn. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. 100 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL30769.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.285230).
UPC: 888680908737.
9.0x12.0x0.264
inches.
'Flee the
storms.' Reynaldo Hahn
(1874-1947) put this
motto of classical
artists at the heart of
his music for piano four
hands, preferring the
balance of proportions to
the roar of passions, the
eclecticism of good
taste, charm and
delicacy. Berceuses falls
within the French
tradition of children's
music such as illustrated
by Faure's Dolly and
Ravel's Ma mere lOye.
These seven pieces evoke
with refinement the
happiness of a cloudless
day, the effervescence
that reigns on Christmas
Eve, or the gentle
syncopated rocking of a
young Creole, Selfiana.
The Variations pueriles
sur une melodie de Carl
Reinecke manifest a free,
whimsical vein, whereas
the Trois preludes sur
des airs irlandais drink
at the pure sources of
folk music, borrowing
their thematic material
from the famous
collection Songs of Old
Ireland which Stanford
had brought out in 1882.
Published for the first
time from ahandwritten
score, the Variations sur
un theme de Charles
Levade end with a wild
quadrille that takes the
heroes of the celebration
to the nearest inn. The
Piece en forme daria et
Bergerie from 1896,
finely polished, takes up
with the ambiance of the
pastorale, popular in the
17th century.
