Dix Pièces pittoresques (Chabrier)
from Chabrier: Piano Music (CDA67515)
1 Paysage [5'49]
2 Mélancolie [2'39]
3 Tourbillon [1'31]
4 Sous-bois [4'30]
5 Mauresque [3'21]
6 Idylle [3'51]
7 Danse villageoise [4'36]
8 Improvisation [5'20]
9 Menuet pompeux [6'10]
10 Scherzo-valse [4'33]
42 minutes 20 seconds 10 tracks
‘As to Hewitt's performances, they are as affectionate, warm, lyrical and charming as one could wish, underlining but not exaggerating Chabrier's deliciously predictable unpredictability’ (Gramophone)
‘Hewitt is at her best here, teasing out the yearning harmonies and shy cadences with a persuasive rubato’ (BBC Music Magazine)
‘It is very fresh-face playing, bringing out, also, Chabrier's acknowledged debt to the French Baroque keyboard giants, while even Bach seems to hang over the gigue-like Scherzo-valse … wit and c ...