Schmitt: Complete Original Works for Piano Duet & Duo, Vol. 3 (March of the 163 Infantry Regiment • Travel Pages Books 1 and 2 • Carnival Music) - Invencia Piano Duo

Florent Schmitt remains one of the most important and influential French composers of the twentieth-century. Although he wrote successfully in almost all forms except opera, he was by training a formidable pianist and his writing for the instrument is colourful, bold and harmonically dextrous. Schmitt was also an inveterate traveller and this permeates his poetic and Romantic Feuillets de voyage (Travel Pages), Op. 26 whilst Musiques foraines (Carnival Music) Op. 22 reveals Schmitt the festive humorist.

This recording was made on a modern instrument: Steinway, Model D

Tracklist
1
Marche du 163 R.I., Op. 48, No. 2 (1916) * (00:07:13)
 
Feuillets de voyage, Book 1, Op. 26 (1913) (00:11:00 )
2
No. 1. Sérénade (00:03:46)
3
No. 2. Visite (00:03:26)
4
No. 3. Compliments (00:01:14)
5
No. 4. Douceur du soir (00:02:12)
6
No. 5. Danse britannique (00:01:36)
 
Feuillets de voyage, Book 2, Op. 26 (1913) (00:13:59 )
7
No. 1. Berceuse (00:04:27)
8
No. 2. Mazurka (00:01:30)
9
No. 3. Marche burlesque (00:02:17)
10
No. 4. Retour à l'endroit familier (00:03:08)
11
No. 5. Valse (00:03:45)
 
Musiques foraines, Op. 22 (1902) (00:25:22 )
12
I. Parade * (00:04:38)
13
II. Boniment de clowns * (00:02:41)
14
III. La belle Fathma * (00:03:37)
15
IV. Les éléphants savants * (00:04:29)
16
V. La pythonisse * (00:04:39)
17
VI. Chevaux de bois * (00:05:13)