Alkan/ McCallum/ Helyard - Four Hands for France AEC Video singing is healing

singing is healing

recorded in 1981 at NYC's radio city studios during the peaked out early era of Glenn's "Guitar Army" ensembles

When they arrive

These are choppy waters through which Roberta Invernizzi sails with unquestionable skill: complete control of her native language and dominance of Handel's stylistic demands in canto espressivo and canto d'agilita - all being allied to her lustrous vocal tones

Alkan/ McCallum/ Helyard - Four Hands for France AEC Video singing is healingPlaying four hands piano was both vital in the dissemination of music in the nineteenth century and also a popular domestic activity. The French composers recorded here span the Romantic century, from the salon charm of Chaminade and Massenet and the virtuosity of Alkan's wild dance to the innocence of the family music room in pieces by Chausson, Godard and Ropartz. The original 1853 Parisian Erard piano on which this recording was made combines