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Louis Gregh: Élégie pastorale, Op.10 (1876)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear presents a second recording of this beautiful elegy (his first can be seen here: https://youtu.be/FORQzSxfL3Y ).  

For more information on the very sad underlying story, see: http://psearpianist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/louis-greghs-elegie-pastorale-title.html 

Louis Gregh (1843-1915) was a French composer of Maltese extraction, who wrote ballets, operettas (e.g., Un Lycée de jeunes filles (1881); Le Capitaine Roland (1895)), songs and salon piano music. He also set up a music publishing business around 1876. One of his 'clients' was the mysterious Galos, author of 'Le lac de Côme'.  

I had always associated Gregh with light pastiches of 18th century French dances, but this is a more serious piece, with some really unexpected harmonic twists towards the end.  The piece - dedicated to his friend Charles Strauss - is prefaced by some verses from 'Souvenirs Intimes' by the very obscure French poet Antoine Queyriaux (1844 -1918), some of whose verses Gregh had also used in his songs.

My thumbnail shows a 2016 photo of a Cumbrian winter scene by John Campbell ( https://tinyurl.com/y2te8793 ).
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