Hi Everyone,

For the convenience of members and visitors, I've consolidated the four Catoire Chants du Crepuscule (Songs of Twilight) so that they can be more easily accessed and heard in the order the composer originally arranged them. I hope you'll enjoy hearing these wonderful pieces. Here is the link:

http://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=35614.0

Congrats on getting the entire set together, David. I have them already, as you well know.

Hi Horowitzian,

Yes I know, you got them as each arrived in turn. I will say though, I love listening to them as a set, as they have a larger impact that way. You can certainly play them that way on your iTunes as well.

It's interesting that Catoire composed No. 1 as a reverie. As I listened to the whole group, it later occurred to me that perhaps these character pieces are not so much about twilight (crepuscule) literally, that is, a time between light and darkness; but rather and more figuratively a sequence of four dreams that occur in a zone between the conscious and the subconscious. When I play or hear Catoire's idiom, it very often strikes me as being very deep. We'll never know!

That could very well be! Interesting thought. They do seem almost dreamlike.

how did I miss this? I think I have all of them.. now I can check.

Hi apple*

Yeah, you have to be pretty fast to keep up here ha-ha!

At the moment I'm working on Catoire's "Quartre Morceaux" Op. 12, and I hope to have No. 1 posted in very early January. I could do it now, but the piano will be tuned at the end of this month, so I figured I should really wait, as it will benefit the sound of the recording.

So stay tuned!