Hyperion

For Children

For Children

Lívia Rév (piano)

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For many people music begins during childhood, so it is not surprising that there is a lot of music which is concerned with that period of life in one of two ways – either pieces for budding musicians to play or those which offer some kind of adult retrospect on childhood. The Schumann and Tchaikovsky items included here are in the former category, the Debussy and Villa-Lobos in the latter. But this recital casts its net wide and there also are pieces, like those by Chopin and Liszt, which find the composers themselves past childhood but not yet adult. And there are items, such as Beethoven’s or Daquin’s contributions, which although not specifically written for young musicians are most often played by them.

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