| Louis Vierne: Complete Piano Works II: Piano: Instrumental AlbumThe War Years (1914-1916)-First critical Urtext edition based on all available autograph manuscripts and printed sourcesWith a detailed foreword and critical commentary (both Fr/Eng/Ger) complemented by numerous facsimilesWell-presented layoutWith his Douze Préludes Op.36 and Trois Nocturnes Op.35 composed between 1914 and 1916 Vierne followed in the Romantic piano tradition whilst lending the historic models that special sound between elegance and expressivity as is characteristic for French music of the period. The editor of the volume is the distinguished pianist Olivier Gardon. As a performer and scholar he has researched Louis Vierne s piano music for over twenty years of which he hasan unparalleled knowledge. This can be convincingly heard on Olivier Gardon s complete CD recording of 1995. Instrumentation : Publisher : |