Don Satz wrote: >Marc-Andre Hamelin, for Hyperion, has recorded a new disc of piano >music composed by G. Catoire. I've not heard of this composer before. >Could anyone provide some information about Catoire, particularly his >compositional style. Hyperion's ad in the new ever-more-Haymarketish Gramophone (and the website) say the following: "Georgy Catoire (1861-1926), one of a large number of composers who flourished in pre-Revolutionary Russia. His style is very much of that period. Primarily a miniaturist, most of his pieces can be described as mood pictures rather than as anything more abstract." New Grove is, maybe, a bit more helpful: "As a composer he belonged on the whole to the "Moscow School" and his work takes Tchaikovsky as its point of departure. The influence of Wagner is also apparent, though enhanced by a sensitivity to the styles of Chopin, Franck, and later even Debussy. As a Gramophone reviewer might remark, sounds like a bit of a dog's breakfast. Nevertheless, I'll give Catoire a try -- everything Hamelin does is worth investigating. Art Scott Livermore, Cal.