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Product Description Includes Pieces Pittoresque; 5 Pieces pour Piano; Bourree Fantasque; Capriccio; Impromptu; Habanera; Air de Ballet; Suite de Valse; Marches des Cipayes; for Piano 4-Hands, and more. Rena Kyriakou, Walter Klien, piano. "Highly recommendable...."- New York Times. Amazon.com Chabrier's music isn't exactly essential for life, but it is extremely lighthearted and entertaining most of the time. This set, advertised as complete, may be missing some trivial brief items. But the essential Chabrier for piano, including his pieces for four hands, is all here, in performances whose spirit matches the essence of the music. Kyriakou's playing on most of the solo pieces matches Alain Planès performance on Harmonia Mundi HMC 901465, but Kyriakou's single disc costs more than this set. And don't miss the four-hand Souvenirs de Munich, a delightful nose-thumbing parody of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. --Leslie Gerber