NOCTURNES --- PIANO

Le Golfe de Naples, Tableau Nocturne ou Fantaisie Pittoresque, Op.253 - 8 Nocturnes, Op.368 - RondoNocturne en Lab, Op.506 nº3 - Nocturne Sentimental et Brillant en Lab sur un motif favori de Strauss - 8 Nocturnes de différents caractères, Op.604 (L´hommage, Le désir, La persuasion, La colère, L´excuse, La consolation, La méditation, La joie) - Nocturne en Mib, Op.647 - Notturnino en Mib, Op.699nº2 - Notturnino en Lab, Op.728 nº3 - Notturnina en Mib, Op.756 nº14 - Notturno en Mib - Notturno en Fa - 2 Nocturnes de H.W. Ernst transcrits pour piano (nº1 et 2 en sol mineur) - Notturno en Mib , extrait de Mosaïque pour Piano sur l´opéra Martha de Fr. de Flotow - Nocturne sentimental en Lab. Carl Czerny (1791-1857), the Viennese composer and pianist, produced a remarkable number of scores.They cover all genres except opera - most are for piano (or piano with other instruments). He published no less than 861 opuses (using 30 opus numbers more than once) as well as a large number of compositions without opus numbers (Werke ohne Opusnummer). In his monumental "Universal Handbook of Musical Literature: a practical and complete guide to all classical and modem musical publications fromall countries" (1904-1910), Franz Pazdirek mentions 381 and, despite the title, his listing is not complete. As if that were not enough, Czerny also left behind a significant number of nonpublished manuscripts, probably amounting to several hundred works. It is difficult to make sense of this overwhelming mass of scores. Czerny himself divided his music into four categories: exercises, easy music for beginners, brilliant music for recitals, and serious music. It is nevertheless not always easy to know which heading a given composition should be classified under. Among the nocturnes in the present edition, five opuses include the word "Nocturne" in their titles. Such is the case for opus 368, 604 and 647, the seventeen nocturnes recorded by Isabelle Oehmichen (Editions Hortus). Theseare indi...