This album was recorded in the Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, Italy, using a Fazioli F278 piano.
Compositional Technique
The Chants du Rhin, a set of six piano pieces by Bizet, are based on six poems and a 'Prélude' by François-Joseph Méry, a poet who wrote plays and librettos.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bizet, the composer, preferred composing to performing or teaching, and always thought as a composer, not a pianist, when writing for the piano.
Composition History
Eight of the works on this album were composed before Bizet, the composer, was fourteen, when the piano was central to his studies.
Compositional Technique
Bizet's Variations chromatiques uses a plain chromatic scale as its theme, requiring the composer to create melodies and harmonies to fit this unusual structure.
Composer Biography
Georges Bizet, the composer, was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at age nine and won piano prizes at twelve and thirteen.
Performer Biography
Roberto Prosseda, the pianist on this album, gained international fame for his recordings of Mendelssohn's complete piano music.
