Imaginary

Visual Arts

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Girls at the Piano (1892)

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

These Schubert piano sonatas demand careful attention from the performer and the listener.

• Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 7 in E flat major, Op. posth. 122, D. 568
• Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, Op. 120, D. 664
• Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor, Op. 143, D. 784 (“Grande Sonata”)
• Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 15 in C major, D. 840, “Relique”
• Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, Op. 42, D. 845
• Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, Op. 53, D. 850, “Gasteiner”
• Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, Op. 78, D. 894

Compositions by Richard Dubugnon:

• Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op 63
• Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 77
• Klavieriana, Op. 70

Organ music sounds so very serious:

• Langlais, organ works (performed by Houbart, Massaglia and Leclerc)
• Louis Vierne, 6 organ symphonies
• Duruflé, Organ works

Other compositions:

• Feigin, Tuba Concerto
• Mucha, String Quartet No. 1
• Mucha, String Quartet No. 2

Albums:

• Ballaké Sissoko, “A Touma”: “During these strange and paradoxical ‘solitary dialogues’, he makes his kora speak and reacts to the emotions it arouses in him, letting his imagination and his fingers fly off to landscapes that are both magnificent and unknown.”