Pascal Rogé

Digitación: Pascal Rogé Según el propio Ravel, no hay que dar demasiada importancia al extraño título de la pequeña pieza para piano compuesta en 1899, "Pavana para una princesa muerta". Lo eligió pri...

Los planes de Ravel para un concierto para piano se remontan a 1906, pero no fue hasta principios de 1929 cuando el compositor empezó a trabajar seriamente en él. Más tarde declaró que lo había escrit...

Two copies needed for performance This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Ca...

This composition for violoncello and piano in the style of a Sicilian dance is from Gabriel Fauré's middle creative period and was first published simultaneously in France and England in 1898, reflect...

At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns showed a particular fondness for the violoncello. He completed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after finishing his first cello concerto...

Pieza virtuosa en el estilo de una rapsodia húngara", así reza la entrada de Ravel sobre "Tzigane" en el llamado "Bosquejo autobiográfico". Compuesta en 1924, existen tres versiones de esta obra: con...

Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saëns expressed his enthusiasm for this work by his friend and...

Although Satie took the classical form as a model for his 'Sonatine', it is quintessentially an ironic work. The composer, who later in life liked to be seen walking through the streets wearing a stif...

Whereas numerous French composers of the time tried to breathe new life into the larger forms of instrumental music, Chabrier concentrated on the smaller dance and character forms. The 'Bourrée fantas...

In a typically humorous manner Satie countered the myth of the great master's 'last thought' with his 'Next-to-last thoughts' (Avant-dernières Pensées). As was usual with his piano works from 1912 onw...

With the five Nocturnes, composed in 1919, Satie concluded the series of cyclically conceived piano works that form the backbone of his oeuvre, so to speak. The pieces of the same name by John Field a...

Following the enthusiastic reception of his first Violin Sonata (HN 980), it was clear to Fauré that he would continue to write chamber music. In 1880 he wrote a little piece for cello and piano that...

Como en todas sus obras de cámara de madurez, Ravel también se revela como un innovador de las formas y técnicas tradicionales en su trío para piano, compuesto en 1914. Así, el movimiento "Passacaglia...

Fingering Piano: Pascal Rogé Fingering Violin: Ernst Schliephake Fauré's 2nd Violin Sonata was written in 1916 in Evian and Paris, the first in a series of chamber music works. It is thus one of Faure...

Originally planned only as a little duo for violin and piano, the composition grew into a sonata in autumn 1885. The first performances were more than disillusioning for Saint-Saëns, as the violinists...