Émile Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Volume Four
The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded on this fourth album of his piano music document his fascination with dance, but nonetheless display a degree of variety: some are winsome and charming, others vigorous and folk-like, and occasionally they suggest echoes of some of his French contemporaries, not least Chabrier, Debussy, Fauré and Ravel.
Adalberto Maria Riva, piano
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Trois morceaux pour piano, Op. 8 (publ. 1890s)
- No. 3, Valse-caprice (4:15)
Six Dances romandes, Op. 37 (publ. 1899) (10:04)
- No. 1 Moderato risoluto (1:30)
- No. 2 Allegretto moderato (1:35)
- No. 3 Allegretto giocoso (1:34)
- No. 4 Tempo di valsa (1:11)
- No. 5 Allegro risoluto (1:51)
- No. 6 Allegretto (2:23)
Douze Danses (publ. 1911) (30:30)
- No. 1 Allegretto (2:37)
- No. 2 Allegro con ritmo (2:15)
- No. 3 Andante misterioso (2:56)
- No. 4 Moderato grazioso (2:42)
- No. 5 Andante con tenerezza (2:28)
- No. 6 Allegretto quasi Valse lente (2:51)
- No. 7 Allegretto semplice (2:05)
- No. 8 Allegro giocoso (2:35)
- No. 9 Andante tranquillo (1:43)
- No. 10 Allegro risoluto (2:31)
- No. 11 Allegretto (2:54)
- No. 12 Allegro scherzando (2:53)
Musiques en Zigzags – 12 petites pièces mélodiques et rythmiques (c. 1930) (16:16)
- No. 1 Naïvement (0:53)
- No. 2 Vif et fort (1:01)
- No. 3 Avec une candeur d’autrefois (2:01)
- No. 4 Commodément et avec un sourire satisfait (1:07)
- No. 5 Avec hésitation (0:51)
- No. 6 D’un ton « bon enfant » (1:37)
- No. 7 Avec une pesanteur obstinée (1:43)
- No. 8 Avec tendresse et mélancolie (1:50)
- No. 9 Mouvement de valse (1:40)
- No. 10 Rude et incisif (1:26)
- No. 11 Lent, avec quelques sautes d’humeur (1:12)
- No. 12 Avec un brio étincelant (0:55)
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