Yet More Harmonium...
Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 07/31/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
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By now you will have got the harmonium picture: a wind & reed keyboard instrument likened to an huge accordion, about the size and shape of a large upright piano. Between c.1850 to c.1925 it was a very important instrument in bourgeois households, smaller churches, in the concert hall, and also in the early cinema where its eerie vibrations perfectly corresponded with German Expressionism. But these charming pieces were originally intended to be played at a concert of fin-de-siècle art music.
This rare disc features music by Belgian Jaak Lemmens and Frenchman Alexandre Guilmant. Very nice.
See too: César Franck: Intégrale de l'oeuvre d'harmonium ; Works for Harmonium 1 ; The Harmonium and Piano Duos ; Guilmant: Duos for Piano & Harmonium ; Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens: Organ Works .
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