Marie Jaëll: Complete Works for Piano Vol. 3

The Alsace born pianist Marie Jaëll is today mostly known within music history because of her pedagogic works. This image does not meet all the bequeathed information on her life and work: The in her lifetime celebrated piano player and wise pedagogue left a riche and impressive compositional oeuvre not only for her proper instrument. Influenced by the spirit of romanticism, but also by the creative independency of the well-educated Parisian “dame de salon”, but first of all by her reputed extraordinary virtuosity she developed her distinctive style, which appears attracting not only to enthusiasts of piano music from the romantic era. This CD is the third sequel of a series of recordings by Cora Irsen. The “details” and miniature collections, selected here in this third sequel and added into a diverse programme, are evidence of technical mastery in the most diverse atmospheric, conceptual and illustrative manifestations. At the same time, they show all the virtues to bestow upon piano music new inspiration that was unusual for its time and occasionally even unexpected. For example, in several “imitative” sections of “Les Jours pluvieux” (1894), Marie Jaëll moves into a compositionally aesthetic future, which is reminiscent of “Poèms” and other mood pieces by Alexander Skrjabin.