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Touche le coeur - Chiba, Ueda

Exton  OVCL-766

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Chamber

Works by Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Ravel & Debussy

Sayaka Chiba (violin)
Haruko Ueda (piano)

All

Works (9)

• Camille Saint-Saëns: Élégie No. 1 in D major, Op. 143
• Claude Debussy: Beau soir, L 6
• Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata, L 140
• Gabriel Fauré: Andante in B flat major, Op. 75
• Gabriel Fauré: Berceuse in D major, Op. 16
• Gabriel Fauré: Sicilienne, Op. 78
• Gabriel Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
• Jascha Heifitz: Debussy: Beau soir
• Maurice Ravel: Vocalise-étude en forme de Habanera, M. 51