Music for the season, by Cecile Chaminade. She was a French composer, mainly of piano music, who spent the first half of her life in the nineteenth century and the second in the twentieth. She would never be called one of the so-called ’serious’ composers. Her music is too unpretentious for that. It is intimate, nostalgic, dreamy and quite disarming. She’s usually judged as a composer of ’salon’ music, of charming trifles. Well, maybe she isn’t Beethoven, Chopin or Liszt. There are no grand gestures, no angst or pain. But in its unassuming, simple and modest way, this is perfect. I love the way she weaves around the charming tune the bustling of the wind and the leaves.
It is played by Eric Parkin.
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