Adalberto Maria Riva - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 4

The Swiss composer Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865n1950) 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, FaurE and Ravel.