Clara Rodriguez - Carreño: Piano Music '2009

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Le printemps, Op. 25
02. Plainte elegía, No. 1, Op. 17
03. Ballade, Op. 15
04. Intermezzo, Op. 34
05. La corbeille de fleurs, Valse, Op. 9
06. Mazurka de salon, Op. 30
07. Un bal en rêve, Op. 26
08. Partie elegía No. 2, Op. 18
09. La fausse note, Op. 39
10. Un rêve en mer, Op. 28
11. Kleiner Waltzer
12. Le sommeil de l'enfant, Op. 35
13. Vals Gayo
14. Venise, Op. 33
15. Une revue à Prague, Op. 27

Teresa Carreño came from a distinguished Venezuelan family, proudly connected
to Simon Bolivar. At the age of eight Teresa gave her debut recital inNew York,
going on to perform in all major halls of the USA and Europe. She was showered
with praise from music critics and won the admiration of the greatest musicians
of the time, including Rossini, Liszt, Grieg, Gounod and Rubinstein. One of her
earliest compositions was also written at the age of eight and was dedicated to
her mentor Louis Moreau Gottschalk. She composed up to 70 works for the piano
most of which were written and published in Paris when she was only a teenager.

Clara Rodriguez was born in Venezuela and after winning a scholarship from the
Venezuelan Arts Council trained in London at the Royal College of Music under
Phyllis Sellick. Clara Rodriguez’s career as a concert pianist has taken
her to perform in the most prestigious halls in Europe, South America, Asia and
the North of Africa. Her discography includes the piano music of Moisés
Moleiro; Federico Ruiz; Teresa Carreño; Federic Chopin; Ernesto Lecuona and
Popular Venezuelan Songs and Dances.

“The Venezuelan Teresa Carreño (born in Caracas 1853; died in New York
1917) was, with Clara Schumann, the most celebrated female pianist of the 19th
century. Most of these works are self-evidently morceaux for the salon, but
superior specimens of the genre, requiring a pianism above the ordinary and
showing a complete technical command. Clara Rodriguez is a sympathetic and
enthusiastic interpreter; her touch is sure and agile. She invests all this
highly agreeable music with vibrant life. This recording is superb”
Pianist Magazine, Selected Discs, London

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