Euphonium and Piano -
advanced
SKU:
CY.CC2722
Composed by
Georges Bizet. Arranged
by Ralph Sauer. 19th
Century French. Solo part
and Piano accompaniment.
Published by Cherry
Classics (CY.CC2722).
The Chants du
Rhin (Songs of the
Rhine), a cycle of six
pieces, based on poems by
Joseph Mery, were written
in 1865, and Bizet
performed two of them on
16 April 1866 at a soiree
of the Beaujolais
Philharmonic Society. The
songs are grouped
symmetrically around La
bohemienne as the central
piece, framed by two
meditatively yearning
pieces (in E and D flat
major) and two vividly
exuberant ones (similarly
in E and D flat major),
with L'aurore serving as
an
introduction.
In
this cycle Bizet takes up
the theme of the gypsy
girl which had already
entered European music in
the operas The Bohemian
Girl by the Irish
composer Michael William
Balfe and Verdi's Il
trovatore, as well as in
Franz Liszt's Hungarian
Rhapsodies for piano.
Bizet will return to it
one year later in La
jolie fille de Perth and
ten years later in
Carmen. The fourth piece
Les confidences shows
similarities in tonality,
structure and motifs to
the middle part of the
third movement of
Chopin's Sonata in B
minor.
This
version includes parts in
B-flat treble clef as
well as bass clef.
William-S.-Pitts
