This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and recently discovered works by composers who had an influence on Pierre Boulez, as well as the premiere recording of Boulez’s Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo. This large-scale early work looks back on virtuosic Romantic music, while at the same time exploring the new compositional styles that Boulez would subsequently embrace. Among the rarities is a posthumously discovered piano study by Debussy, a reconstructed birdsong work by Messiaen, and a tiny masterpiece by Ravel found in a notebook.
Debussy, Claude
Étude retrouvée
1 Étude retrouvée 04:12
Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon (Evenings Lit by the Burning Coals)
2 Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon (Evenings Lit by the Burning Coals) 02:24
Messiaen, Olivier
Morceau de lecture à vue
3 Morceau de lecture à vue (Sight Reading Exercise) 01:53
Des canyons aux étoiles … (excerpts)
4 IV. Le Cossyphe d'Heuglin (The White-Browed Robin-Chat) 04:23
5 IX. Le Moqueur polyglotte (The Mockingbird) 10:18
La Fauvette Passerinette (The Subalpine Warbler)
6 La Fauvette Passerinette (The Subalpine Warbler) 11:01
Boulez, Pierre
Prelude, Toccata et Scherzo
7 Prelude 08:33
8 Toccata 10:25
9 Scherzo 07:48
12 Notations
10 No. 1. Fantasque - Modéré 00:49
11 No. 2. Très vif 00:21
