This is now the third recording with which I continue my journey into the world of Rossini’s later works. Here we have a Rossini who clearly enjoyed the closing years of his life, in his beloved Paris, which once again allowed him free rein for his brilliant creativity. One of the results of this freedom was an abundance of mostly shorter character pieces, which he jokingly referred to as “Pchs de Vieillesse”, or “Sins of old age”. These works are typified by their great diversity, and they are the expressions of an exceptional talent who had broken free of musical dogma: ironic, meditative, personal, and unafraid of disapproval or self-deprecation. All of these things can be heard in the works on this CD. For example, irony can immediately be seen in titles like “Valse Torture” (tortured waltz) or “chantillon de Blague Mlodique sur let noires de la main droite” (A sample of melodic nonsense on the black keys for the right hand). This unusual brand of humor is even more clearly marked in “Petit Caprice (Style Offenbach)” where Rossini targets the operettas of Offenbach which were so successful at the time, nor does he spare the pianist, giving the climaxes an almost absurd virtuosity with his use of difficult octave glissandi. The irony is even less restrained in “Des Tritons s’il vous Plat” (Some tritones please), a harmony exercise in disguise which immediately recalls the warming-up exercises of singers. But Rossini shows us a very different face in works like “chantillon du Chant de Nol l’italienne”, intimate and meditative, a distant evocation of an Italian Christmas carol, or “Marche et Reminiscences pour mon dernier Voyage” (March and Reminiscences for my last journey).
01. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. X “Miscellanée pour piano”: I. Prélude blageur in A Minor 7:04
02. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. X “Miscellanée pour piano”: II. Des tritons s’il vous plaît (montée-descente) in C Major 1:55
03. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. X “Miscellanée pour piano”: III. Petite pensée in E-Flat Major 2:09
04. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. X “Miscellanée pour piano”: IV. Une bagatelle in E-Flat Major 1:21
05. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. X “Miscellanée pour piano”: V. Mélodie italienne (une bagatelle) “In nomine Patris” in A-Flat Major 0:58
06. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. X “Miscellanée pour piano”: VI. Petite caprice (style Offenbach) in C Major 2:56
07. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. IX “Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor”: XI. Echantillon de blague mélodique sur les noires de la main droite in G-Flat Major 6:11
08. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. IX “Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor”: I. Mélodie candide in A Major 3:48
09. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. IX “Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor”: IX. Prélude italien in A-Flat Major 6:09
10. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. IX “Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor”: VI. Echantillon du chant de Noël à l’italienne in E-Flat Major 5:18
11. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. IX “Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor”: V. Impromptu tarantellisé in F Major 5:21
12. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. VI “Album pour les enfants dégourdis”: VI. Valse torturée in D Major 5:42
13. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. IX “Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium et cor”: VII. Marche et réminiscences pour mon dernier voyage in A-Flat Major 8:56
14. Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. VI “Album pour les enfants dégourdis”: IX. Un petit train de plaisir comico-imitatif in C Major 10:56
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