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Cecile Chaminade: Piano Music.
by Cecile Chaminade. Dover Publications (31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501), 2001. 59pp., $7.95. Advanced.
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) was a renowned French pianist and prolific composer, known especially for her 200-plus short piano pieces. Although most of these "salon" pieces have disappeared from the repertoire, this Dover collection compiles eight wonderful works, reprinted from earlier editions. The only thing lacking in this collection is programmatic information about the works themselves. The compilation is clearly printed, containing original fingerings and pedal indications, but the scholar or serious student might wish for elaboration of the titles or explanation of Chaminade's musical intentions in determining an appropriate interpretation of the works.
The first three pieces in this volume are concert etudes focusing on various virtuosic and musical techniques, marked throughout with long soaring lyrical lines. The Etude Symphonique, Opus 28, is dedicated to the Polish virtuoso Ignaz Paderewski and is filled with complex technical passages. The Concert Etude, Opus 35 No. 6 (Tarentelle) bears a dedication to an interesting musical figure of the late nineteenth century, Marie Jaell, who was a student of Liszt's and a well-known pedagogue. She was one of the first to analyze, in collaboration with medical doctors, the specific movements involved in the physical act ...
- Portrait de Cecile Chaminade.
- Magazine article from: Notes Citron, Marcia J. December 1, 1994 700+ words
...receiving long overdue attention. The music of Frenchwoman Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944), once a favorite of aspiring pianists...Canon [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993] and Cecile Chaminade: A Bio-bibliography [Westport, Conn.: Greenwood...
- This gala had it all: glam, opera stars and Supremes.
- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) March 21, 2006 700+ words
...Licitra - set off groans in the opera house. Compensation included...s 'Carmen' Fantasie. The opera-loving Supreme Court justices...style. Local vocals Peabody Opera Theatre staged A Little Night...last time you heard songs by Cecile Chaminade and Ture Rangstrom?) in a...
- Move over, Beethoven: Women find a place at the podium. (Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Roos, James May 4, 1994 700+ words
...Philharmonic and Chicago's Lyric Opera (the third-largest opera company in the United States...female composers like France's Cecile Chaminade, who wrote charmingly romantic...of course were divas at the opera. But female composers had...
- Swedish mezzo-soprano is full of fire in song and in her career.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) March 6, 2002 700+ words
...interpretations of the song repertory and opera can be as fiery and full-blooded as...role of Idamante in the Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's "Idomeneo...nearly forgotten French Romantic composer Cecile Chaminade, credited Bengt Forsberg, her pianist...
- Swedish mezzo-soprano is full of fire in song and in her career.(Chicago...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Von Rhein, John March 8, 2002 700+ words
...interpretations of the song repertory and opera can be as fiery and full-blooded as...role of Idamante in the Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart's "Idomeneo...nearly forgotten French Romantic composer Cecile Chaminade, credited Bengt Forsberg, her pianist...
- Music: A Fink to a Flop.(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: National Review NORDLINGER, JAY April 7, 2003 700+ words
...another Handel album. His collection of opera arias was a hit -- and justly so...Semele, which -- sorry, guys -- is an opera. But no matter. If I could hail just...probably would have said, "Chaminade" -- Cecile Chaminade, a Frenchwoman who lived from 1857 to...
- A History of Western Music.
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bird, Dennis L. August 1, 1996 700+ words
...baroque and classical periods. Church music and the rise of opera are comprehensively covered; Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart...of the complete omission of such notable women composers as Cecile Chaminade, Dame Ethel Smyth and Dame Elizabeth Maconchy. Not all composers...
- Reviews of new classical music releases.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Cantrell, Scott Taitte, Lawson January 13, 2004 700+ words
...Souvenir de Paganini" and "A minor Mazurka" (one of the 1840 ones without opus number) a little more poetry. Slighter pieces by Leo Delibes, Cecile Chaminade and Saint-Saens (the Godowsky arrangement of "The Swan") round out an enjoyable...
- Voice of distinction: smart, sophisticated and opinionated, Anne Sofie von...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Baker, David J. October 1, 2002 700+ words
...vulgarity and grandstanding that she can seem almost too good for opera. Nor is this just an aura. Her singing can be passionately...Augenblick?" She jumped at the rediscovery of French composer Cecile Chaminade, whose art songs explored the floating, perfumed Reynaldo...
- Mots D'Amour.
- Magazine article from: Opera News Malafronte, Judith April 1, 2002 700+ words
...frothy and foamy CD to keep you company. French composer Cecile Chaminade kept her musical passion a secret from her disapproving father...of large-scale works: the Suite for Orchestra, a comic opera, a ballet, a concert piece for piano and orchestra, and...
Source: HighBeam Research, Cecile Chaminade: Piano Music.