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At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artlessness, the colour, the tenderness, the sensibility and the magic of the child’s world fascinated several French composers. In these sets of pieces for piano duet, each of them, with his temperament, his conception of childhood and his varied registers, transports the listener to the land of dreams and takes a nostalgic look back to his own early life. With restful languor and penetrating timbre, Gabriel Fauré guides us into the intimate universe of the young Dolly (1893-96). In Jeux d’enfants (1871), Georges Bizet evokes juvenile joys with typically French finesse, poetry, and clarity. In his Petite Suite (1889), Claude Debussy offers us four tableaux full of the sensuous sonorities that so charmed listeners to his elegant, supple playing; and finally it is the turn of Maurice Ravel, with his passionate devotion to the theme of childhood, to tell us the tales of Ma mère l’Oye (1908-10), thereby creating one of the most poetic and discreetly lyrical works of his time.
