Masabane Cecilia - Masabane - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Letzbor / Ars Antiqua Austria - Tu Felix Austria-Habsburg Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/27/2015

Digitally Remastered Reissue of their Classic Rock Album with Six Bonus Tracks and 'all the Things She Gave Me' and 'the Thrill is Gone' Restored to their Original Lengths and Completely Unedited.

Though Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was known above all for it's InchschoolInch of violin-playing, represented by figures such as Henry Vieuxtemps and Eugene Ysaye, it was also home to a flourishing piano InchschoolInch. After independence in 1830, the new nation's conservatoires opened numerous classes, method-books and anthologies proliferated, and piano-makers kept pace with new patents and instruments. This dynamic environment naturally had an effect on composers; everyone who wrote music wrote for this king of instruments, and promoted the results either by performing them themselves or by confiding them to virtuosos to execute in concerts or competitions. The most famous of these, the Eugene Ysaye Competition (since 1951 the Queen Elisabeth International Competition), opened to pianists in 1938, with Emil Gilels emerging victorious. A quarter of a century later, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden entered this prestigious contest and, at sixteen years of age, came away with a third prize. Trained at the Brussels Conservatoire by Eduardo del Pueyo, he would go on to an international career still active six decades later. The programme of this CD is an homage to this long lineage of teachers and students. It testifies to the practices as well as the networks of friendship that gave this InchschoolInch, throughout it's various ramifications, a particular character.