Pastorale op.114 pour piano Cecile Louise S. Chaminade

Landscape in the delicate F major Pastorale was published ten years before the Great War. This is really a clavecin-style piece, but one of such formal polish that not only in the blithe and lyrically decorated tranquillo outer sections, but even more in the curious pathos of the central span (unusually for Chaminade in the tonic minor) it seems a not unworthy forerunner of certain movements in Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin.