Meyerbeer (arr. Pauer): Le Baptême (The Baptism)

Phillip Sear plays an attractive piano transcription of Meyerbeer's short sacred song. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) - composer of 'Les Huguenots', 'L'Africaine' etc. - needs no introduction from me. This is one of a collection of songs, published in 1849, and was selected by Ernst Pauer as one of his six 'Recollections of Meyerbeer', published three years after Meyerbeer's death. Ernst Pauer (1826-1905),with his son Max, was one of the 19th century's most industrious transcribers of orchestral and other works for piano solo. He was also a composer in his own right. This fine arrangement follows the original song and accompaniment closely in its first verse, but then adds quasi-baroque accompanying figures in the second verse to give an effect similar to some of the earlier of Mendelssohn's 'Variations sérieuses'. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 )