Program Notes
Suite
Francis Poulenc once admitted that ‘simpleton that I was’ he had thought Chabrier a minor musician. But Chabrier was one of music’s great originals. His music, wrote pianist Alfred Cortor, communicates an acutely sensuous pleasure; his harmony can be relished on the emotional palate as the connoisseur tastes a fine wine or bites through the scented flesh of a peach...