Étienne Darbellay: Carnaval, pour piano

About this edition

Étienne Darbellay’s Carnaval is a cycle of character pieces for solo piano, dedicated to his friend and teacher Ervin Lazlo. An Ouverture, marked Andante cantabile, introduces material that returns in varied forms throughout the cycle.

In his preface, Georges Starobinski describes a sequence shaped by humour, irony and unexpected contrasts, framed by the opening movement and the melancholy closing Prélude à la nuit. The edition includes Starobinski’s preface in French and English.