Niels Gade - Barcarolle op. 19 n. 5 from "Akvareller"

Niels Gade - Barcarolle op. 19 n.5 from "Akvareller"

It's not a perfect playing, there's an error just in the end, but i decided to put it on youtube anyway.

This is quite an unknown but very pretty piano piece by Danish composer Niels Gade (1817-1890), from Book I of his 10 piano pieces collection "Akvareller" (1852).

«The ten musical miniatures that make up Danish composer Niels Gade's Akvareller for piano, Op. 19 (known in German as his Aquarelle), are among his most polished works, if not his most famous.
Gade spent the declining years of the 1840s adapting his nationalist Scandinavian musical voice to better suit the tastes of a more centralized European audience used to Schumann and Mendelssohn (the latter of whom, as Leipzig's leading musical citizen, had a great impact on Gade); by 1852, when the Akvareller were composed, he had largely succeeded in the effort. This music is all about charm, finesse, and aristocratic light drama, and Gade leaves no room for blatant virtuosity or dripping sentiment -- a restraint that made him quite popular with conservative music critics of the day.

Op. 19 is divided into two books, each of which contains five pieces. Book One contains: 1) "Élégie," 2) "Scherzo," 3) "Canzonetta," 4) "Humoresque," and 5) "Barcarolle," while Book Two has: 6) "Capriccio," 7) "Romanza," 8) "Intermezzo," 9) "Novelletter," and 10) "Scherzo." (Note that some of the titles are different in various sources, according to differences between Gade's manuscript and the original 1853 edition; No. 8, for instance, is sometimes called "Preludio.")

In 1881 Gade composed a follow-up set of five Nye akvareller (New Aquarelles), which were published as Op. 57.»

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[fabiennetorfs]

I am also learning to play this piece; You play it very nice and it helps me a lot to hear the tone, how you play this. its a good example for me. thanks

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