Adalberto Maria Riva

Adalberto Maria Riva – Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2019)
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The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. But Jaques-Dalcroze, who studied with Delibes and Fauré in Paris and with Bruckner and Fuchs in Vienna, was a composer of considerable stature in his own right, with operas, cantatas and orchestral works among his substantial output. These piano works, all written in the 1890s, are generally lighter in style, showing the influence of Schumann and the salons of Paris.

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Adalberto Maria Riva – Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2023)
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The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded on this fourth album of his piano music document his fascination with dance, but nonetheless display a degree of variety: some are winsome and charming, others vigorous and folk-like, and occasionally they suggest echoes of some of his French contemporaries, not least Chabrier, Debussy, Fauré and Ravel.

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Adalberto Maria Riva – Doret – Martin – Bach: Quintettes Suisses (2022)
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Adalberto Maria Riva – Solitudes: Chopin – Debussy – Satie – Brahms – Beethoven (2020)
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At first glance it may seem that music does not possess the greatest likelihood to represent loneliness. Music in itself, in fact, presupposes at least two elements: an active one, the player, and a passive one, the listener. Other forms of art, such as painting or sculpture, or even poetry, would seem better qualified to express this feeling: a sculpture or a painting, in fact, exists by itself and does not need an intermediary such as the interpreter who plays in order to give it life.

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