Saint-Saëns' etudes for the left hand were written in 1912 at the request of his pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury de Serres, who had suffered an injury to her right hand. These etudes which we...
Più di 20 anni dopo l'op. 52, Saint-Saëns si dedicò nuovamente al genere dello studio da concerto. Nel 1892 scrisse uno studio inizialmente destinato alla pubblicazione su una rivista e che in seguito...
What is hidden behind the seductively hypnotic repeating theme of Couperin's Les Baricades Mistérieuses? The original allusion of the title is long forgotten, though tantalizing theories abound, but t...
Saint-Saëns' "Six Études pour piano" op. 52, ein Werk der Reifezeit, erschienen 1877, etwa zur selben Zeit wie seine Oper "Samson et Dalila". Die zweite der Etüden war 1868 ursprünglich für die "École...
'The Etudes op. 52 and op. 111 are little masterpieces of invention. On every page you encounter ingenious inventions for piano technique and sound.' (Isidore Philipp) What Isidore Philipp described...