Ignaz Moscheles
1. Prélude Op. 73 No. 1 in C major. Allegro con fuoco
From Exercices Élémentaires et Études Progressives
2. Rondino in C major for 4 hands
3. Excercice in doubles
4. A la Valse et Trio in C major
5. Prélude Op. 73 No. 38 in E flat major. Presto – Adagio
6. Étude progressif No. 1 in E flat major. Allegro energico
7. Étude progressif No. 2 in B flat major – dans le style lié. Allegro energico
8. Prélude Op. 73 No. 46 in G major. Animato
9. Étude progressif No. 23 in G major. Morceaux Expressive pour l’étude de la cadence
10. Prélude Op. 73 No 5 in A major. Maestoso
Études de Perfectionnement
[11] Étude in A major l’Enjouement. Andantino quasi allegretto
12. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Ignaz Moscheles
13. Étude in G minor l’Ambition. Con moto, agitato
14. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Frédéric Chopin
15. Étude in F minor. Andantino
16. Étude in D flat major. Allegretto
17. Étude in A flat major. Allegretto
18. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Sigismond Thalberg
19. Étude in E flat major. Allegretto moderato
20. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Sigismond Thalberg
21. Étude de la Cadence in A minor. Allegro
22. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Felix Mendelssohn
23. Étude in F minor. Presto agitato
Franz Liszt
24. Étude in E major. Presto impetuoso
25. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Jakob Rosenhain
26. Étude in D major. Allegro molto e con agitazione
Theodor Döhler
27. Étude in F major. Allegretto
28. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Theodor Döhler
29. Étude in B minor. Allegro
30. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Stephen Heller
31. Étude in E flat major. La Chasse. Prestissimo
Édouard Wolff
32. Étude in E flat minor. Allegro passionato
33. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Édouard Wolff
34. Étude in C sharp minor. Allegretto
Adolf von Henselt
35. Étude in G flat major. La Gondola. Allegro non troppo
36. Daniel Grimwood: Improvised modulation
Julius Benedict
37. Étude in A flat major. Allegro assai
Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux
38. Étude in C sharp minor. Élégie. Andante patetico con moto
Wilhelm Taubert
39. Étude in F sharp minor Op. 49 No. 1. Allegro serioso
40. Étude in F sharp major Op. 49 No. 2. Molto presto e sciolto
Henselt/Vladimir de Pachmann
41. La Gondola in G flat major
Wilhelm Taubert
42. La Nayade. Pièce concertante in F major Op. 49. Andante con moto
Method and Mastery: The Méthode des Méthodes of Moscheles and Fétis ©
In 1840, two of the most respected musicians in Europe embarked on an almost impossibly ambitious project. Ignaz Moscheles – pianist to Prince Albert, teacher of Mendelssohn, and by common consent the elder statesman of modern piano playing – joined forces with the Belgian theorist and critic François-Joseph Fétis, director of the Brussels Conservatoire, to produce a “Method of Methods”: a single, encyclopaedic treatise distilling everything of value from the great piano pedagogues who had come before them. The result, published in French, German and English, moved from the very first lesson at the keyboard to the outer limits of virtuosity, and culminated in something no method before or since has quite attempted: a set of Études de Perfectionnement, commissioned from a roll-call of the era’s greatest pianist-composers – Chopin, Liszt, Thalberg, Mendelssohn, Henselt, and others less celebrated today but no less admired in their own time.
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2026
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 1021
EAN: 5709499102107
