Various - ?mile Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Volume 3

The Swiss composer �mile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865�1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded here document his fascination with dance, including a flirtation with jazz and ragtime, although the apparent innocence of the music conceals a striking degree of metrical and rhythmic complexity, cast in a style that owes something to Debussy and Faur� � and is animated by the blithe spirit of Chabrier. Xavier Par�s, a native of Barcelona, and Patricia Seiffert, from Fribourg, in Switzerland, have their own concert careers but both also teach at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva.