Artist:
Weiyin Chen
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
55:39
Record Label:
Claves Records
Purchase Album:
Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
March 13, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Weiyin Chen
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
55:39
Record Label:
Claves Records
Purchase Album:
Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
March 13, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Product Description: This album is a celebration of an epoch when music, dance and art inspired one another in abundance. This album brings us back in time to Paris 1871-1914. Imagine reliving “La Belle Époque” through a soundscape of music and composers of this era. As a classical pianist and fashion designer, the idea of music and creativity simultaneously stimulating one another resonates with my artistic voice. Ever since I picked up a pencil to sketch designs, it unlocked a creative portal in my musical mind, sparking new compositional ideas. In this album, there are three composers from this beautiful era, La Belle Époque (1871-1914) and three works from the Ballet Russe, a ballet company based in Paris that was instrumental in bringing artists across disciplines together such as Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso and Stravinsky. As this album unfolds through this artistic journey, it finishes with my own original composition: Improvisation on Scheherazade. It is inspired by one of the magnificent productions of Ballet Russe, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a symphonic suite based on One Thousand And One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights.
Lili Boulanger, the first woman to have won the Grand Prix de Rome composition prize and the younger sibling to composition pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, witnessed 24 years of La Belle Époque in her lifetime (1893-1918). Like Debussy, her music is associated with Symbolism, conveying abstract ideas through suggestive imagery. In her Trois Morceaux, I. d’Un Vieux Jardin (of An Old Garden) II. d’Un Jardin Clair (of A Clear Garden) III. Cortège (Procession) we can hear how she paints these images through her harmonic palette.
Lili Boulanger, the first woman to have won the Grand Prix de Rome composition prize and the younger sibling to composition pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, witnessed 24 years of La Belle Époque in her lifetime (1893-1918). Like Debussy, her music is associated with Symbolism, conveying abstract ideas through suggestive imagery. In her Trois Morceaux, I. d’Un Vieux Jardin (of An Old Garden) II. d’Un Jardin Clair (of A Clear Garden) III. Cortège (Procession) we can hear how she paints these images through her harmonic palette.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Trois morceaux pour piano: I. D'un vieux jardin
(03:08)
2 . Trois morceaux pour piano: II. D'un jardin clair (02:10)
3 . Trois morceaux pour piano: III. Cortège (01:55)
4 . Papillons, Op. 2: Introduzione. Moderato (00:14)
5 . Papillons, Op. 2: I. Waltz (00:50)
6 . Papillons, Op. 2: II. Waltz. Prestissimo (00:27)
7 . Papillons, Op. 2: III. Waltz (00:47)
8 . Papillons, Op. 2: IV. Waltz. Presto (01:04)
9 . Papillons, Op. 2: V. Polonaise (01:52)
10 . Papillons, Op. 2: VI. Waltz (01:02)
11 . Papillons, Op. 2: VII. Waltz. Semplice (01:02)
12 . Papillons, Op. 2: VIII. Waltz (01:21)
13 . Papillons, Op. 2: IX. Waltz. Prestissimo (00:50)
14 . Papillons, Op. 2: X. Waltz. Vivo (02:08)
15 . Papillons, Op. 2: XI. Polonaise (03:50)
16 . Papillons, Op. 2: XII. Finale (02:15)
17 . Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune (05:08)
18 . Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64 .No. 2: Tempo giusto (04:00)
19 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): I. Miniature Overture (03:52)
20 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): II. March (02:50)
21 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): III. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (01:50)
22 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): IV. Russian Dance “Trepak” (01:13)
23 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): V. Arabian Dance (03:03)
24 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): VI. Chinese Dance (01:03)
25 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): VII. Dance of the Reed Flutes (02:24)
26 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): VIII. Waltz of the Flowers (07:43)
27 . El Amor Brujo: Ritual Fire Dance (04:21)
28 .Improvisation on Scheherazade, Op. 35 .from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (03:18)
2 . Trois morceaux pour piano: II. D'un jardin clair (02:10)
3 . Trois morceaux pour piano: III. Cortège (01:55)
4 . Papillons, Op. 2: Introduzione. Moderato (00:14)
5 . Papillons, Op. 2: I. Waltz (00:50)
6 . Papillons, Op. 2: II. Waltz. Prestissimo (00:27)
7 . Papillons, Op. 2: III. Waltz (00:47)
8 . Papillons, Op. 2: IV. Waltz. Presto (01:04)
9 . Papillons, Op. 2: V. Polonaise (01:52)
10 . Papillons, Op. 2: VI. Waltz (01:02)
11 . Papillons, Op. 2: VII. Waltz. Semplice (01:02)
12 . Papillons, Op. 2: VIII. Waltz (01:21)
13 . Papillons, Op. 2: IX. Waltz. Prestissimo (00:50)
14 . Papillons, Op. 2: X. Waltz. Vivo (02:08)
15 . Papillons, Op. 2: XI. Polonaise (03:50)
16 . Papillons, Op. 2: XII. Finale (02:15)
17 . Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune (05:08)
18 . Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64 .No. 2: Tempo giusto (04:00)
19 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): I. Miniature Overture (03:52)
20 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): II. March (02:50)
21 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): III. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (01:50)
22 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): IV. Russian Dance “Trepak” (01:13)
23 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): V. Arabian Dance (03:03)
24 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): VI. Chinese Dance (01:03)
25 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): VII. Dance of the Reed Flutes (02:24)
26 . The Nutcracker Suite (Arr. for piano by Stepan Esipoff): VIII. Waltz of the Flowers (07:43)
27 . El Amor Brujo: Ritual Fire Dance (04:21)
28 .Improvisation on Scheherazade, Op. 35 .from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (03:18)
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