Alexandre Boëly: Piano Music, Volume Two
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 element in the stylistic evolution of the French keyboard tradition. This recording, on an Érard piano from 1853, highlights Boëly’s deep engagement with the music of Bach: the two suites recorded here follow Bachian models, importing the formal elegance of Baroque Germany into nineteenth-century France. Boëly’s four-hand sonata, Op. 17, likewise provides a bridge between the Classical past and the proto-Romanticism of his own day.
Stephanie McCallum, piano solo
Erin Helyard, piano duet
Listen To This Recording:
IV Suites pour Piano composées dans le style des anciens Maîtres, Op. 16 (publ. 1854) (23:37)
- I. Allemande (5:43)
- II. Courante (3:52)
- III. Sarabande (4:52)
- IV. Bourrées (6:03)
- V. Gigue (3:07)
Suite II in C Major (25:36)
- I. Allemande (5:55)
- II. Courante (4:31)
- III. Sarabande (4:34)
- IV. Gavottes (5:24)
- V. Gigue (canon à l’octave) (5:12)
Two Preludes (rev. Michel Brenet)
24 Pièces, Op. 22 (1848–51)
- No. 9, Prelude in D minor (2:43)
12 Pièces caractéristiques, Op. 34 (1805–10)
- No. 2, Prelude in F minor (1:05)
Sonate à quatre mains in F minor, Op. 17 (c. 1829; publ. 1856)* (22:28)
- I. Allegro moderato (6:57)
- II. Adagio (4:32)
- III. Tempo di menuetto (3:15)
- IV. Giga – Finale, Allegro (7:44)
First Recordings
Except * First Recording on Period Piano
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