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Track(s) taken from CDA66706

Libellules, Op 24

composer
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Peter Jacobs (piano)
Recording details: November 1993
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: May 1994
Total duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Even more attractive than its predecessor’ (Gramophone)

‘A treasure trove for the explorer’ (BBC Music Magazine)
Libellules are dragonflies, and Chaminade’s relatively early portrayal of them is one of the deft little genre pieces for which she had exactly the right touch: a miniature toccata almost entirely spun out of trills and tremulous, fluttering, buzzing semiquaver figurations.

from notes by Calum MacDonald © 1994

Les Libellules, œuvre composée assez tôt dans la carrière de Chaminade, constitue une de ces adroites petites pièces de genre dans lesquelles elle excellait: une toccata miniature presque entièrement tissée de trilles et de figurations de double-croches virevoltantes, frissonnantes et bourdonnantes.

extrait des notes rédigées par Calum MacDonald © 1994
Français: Alain Midoux

Libellules bedeutet Libellen, und Cécile Chaminades relativ frühes Porträt der Spezies ist eines jener gewandten kleinen Genrestücke, für die sie solch eine sichere Hand hatte: eine Miniaturtokkata, nahezu ausschließlich aus Trillern und tremolierenden, flatternden, summenden Sechzehntelfigurationen aufgebaut.

aus dem Begleittext von Calum MacDonald © 1994
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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