Alexandre Boëly: Piano Music, Volume One

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Catalogue No: TOCC0471
EAN/UPC: 5060113444714
Release Date: 2018-06-01
Composer: Alexandre Boëly
Artists: Stephanie McCallum

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Alexandre Boëly (1785–1858) is best remembered as a member of the long French tradition of organist-composers. His piano music, by contrast, is as good as unknown, and yet it is an important link between the Baroque and Classical worlds of eighteenth-century France and the emerging Romanticism of the nineteenth. This recording, on an Érard piano from 1853, highlights both its Classical poise and its Romantic charm, revealing Boëly as a forerunner of composers like Saint-Saëns, whom he taught, as well as other piano pioneers such as Alkan, Chopin and Liszt, all of whom this prominent Parisian musician and teacher may well have known personally.

Stephanie McCallum, piano (Érard, Paris, 1853)

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    24 Pièces diverses pour piano divisées en 2 suites, Op. 20 – Première Suite

  1. No. 1 Allegretto moderato
  2. No. 2 Romance (Andante)
  3. No. 3 Andantino
  4. No. 4 Scherzo (Allegro moderato)
  5. No. 5 Prélude
  6. No. 6 Andante sostenuto con espressione
  7. No. 7 Romance (Andantino)
  8. No. 8 Allegretto con moto
  9. No. 9 Allegretto
  10. No. 10 Prélude (Andante)
  11. No. 11 Allegretto grazioso
  12. No. 12 Allegretto scherzando

    13. IV Suites pour piano composées dans le style des anciens Maîtres, Op. 16 – Suite IV in F minor

  13. I Fuga a 2 soggetti: Moderato
  14. II Largo
  15. III Polacca

    16. 24 Pièces diverses pour piano divisées en 2 suites, Op. 20 – Deuxième Suite

  16. No. 13 Romance (Con espressione)
  17. No. 14 Moderato con espressione
  18. No. 15 Tempo di menuetto
  19. No. 16 Danse villageoise (Allegro)
  20. No. 17 Andante
  21. No. 18 Scherzo and Trio (Allegro)
  22. No. 19 Larghetto affettuoso
  23. No. 20 Allegro con vivacità
  24. No. 21 Andantino con moto
  25. No. 22 Gavotte (Allegretto grazioso)
  26. No. 23 Marche des pélerins (Tempo moderato)
  27. No. 24 Allegro vivace e scherzando

    28. Caprice pour le piano, Op. 7

  28. Allegro grazioso

    29. Trente études, Op. 6

  29. No. 11 in E minor (Allegro vivace)
  30. No. 20 in C minor (Con fuoco)

    31. Quarante pièces d’étude, Op. 13

  31. No. 6 in E flat minor (Allegro con fuoco)

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1 review for Alexandre Boëly: Piano Music, Volume One

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    ‘The excellence of the playing, the fidelity of the recording and perfect piano sound, to say nothing of the erudition of the sleeve notes, all make this CD hard to resist. And then you’ll more than likely become hooked, just in time for the release of Volume Two.’

    —Philip R Buttall, MusicWeb International

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