musique au Salon piano quatre mains Lise Boucher - Jean Marchand ACD2 2292 The final decades of the 19th century and the turn of the 20th were a sort of Golden Age of private music-making, and the piano, especially, occupied a prominent position in the drawing room, decades before the phonograph and the radio.   Europe was then turning out a flood of popular piano pieces - often for the convivial combination of four hands upon a single key-board - which also inundated the market across the Atlantic; composers and the music industry in America soon followed suit and piano benches here were periodically brimming with new goodies for eager hands and ears: polkas, waltzes, galops, and all manner of tunes with titillating titles.   Now these were not necessarily easy pieces for beginners; the salon pianist of yesteryear was often a well-trained amateur (frequently a well-bred young lady) and the works he or she played were frequently composed by concert pianists for their own use before they were printed for extra mileage. … - Jacques-André Houle piano quatre mains piano four hands Charles Kölling [ 1 ] La chasse au lion op. 55: Grand Galop brillant 4:29 Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) [ 2 ] Danse espagnole, op. 12 n°1 1:57 [ 3 ] Danse espagnole, op. 12 n° 2 4:17 [ 4 ] Danse hongroise op. 11 n° 3 3:10 H. Engelmann [ 5 ] A Coquettish Smile: Polka 3:20 Paul Wachs (1851- ?) [ 6 ] Caprice 2:21 Heinrich Hofmann (1842-1902) Italienische Liebesnovelle op. 19 23:16 [ 7 ] Introduction 2:50 [ 8 ] Barcarolle 4:28 [ 9 ] Serenade 3:55 [10] Dialogue 4:46 [11] Scene de camaval 3:31 [12] Marche nuptiale 3:46 E. Jeanvrot [13] Polka des moineaux 2:44 Durand De Grau [14] Pluie de corail: Caprice brillant 5:12 Emile Desly [15] Marche Saint-Michel: Marche-Polka 3:22 Henri Kowalski (1841-1916) [16] Les roses de Bohème: Valse brillante 4:38 ]17] Ventre à terre: Galop de bravoure 3:11 ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879