Concerto pour piano : Ouvertures

Description

In our successful and complete edition of Emilie Mayer, we now present overtures and a piano concerto by the greatest European composer, who holds a unique position in the musical world of her time, and indeed, no other composer of her generation was as little impressed by the patriarchal vanity of the genre and the rigid attributions of roles! Her Faust overture was very popular at the time; there is evidence of several performances in the early 1880s. Although it is in sonata form, it is covered with unusual dramatic aspects related to the subject. Her Piano Concerto in B-flat major (as far as we know, Emilie Mayer's only concertante composition) is an excellent example of an individually treated classical approach.