Fand Catalogue

  

Suite no 03

‘Marc Chagall Suite’

for piano

Peter Thompson

	The Chagall Suite is brilliantly colourful and has all the delights of a Poulenc or Casella…
	—Colin Scott-Sutherland, MusicWeb International

	…imaginative and colourful
	—BBC Music Magazine

The Marc Chagall Suite (Suite no 3) was written in 1985 after a visit to the Chagall exhibition at the Royal Academy. The movements are musical depictions of five paintings.

In addition to listening to the individual tracks in the contents table below, you can also listen to the entire work on YouTube, where the accompanying videos depict the paintings that inspired the pieces, as shown below. The recording used to make the YouTube videos is by Oliver Williams, piano, taken from the CD Piano Pictures (which may also be purchased from this site).

A much more recent second recording has been made especially for this site by Ennio Caironi, and this is provided as the audio-only tracks within the contents table, below.

Sample pages

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		Composer	Title	Forces	Total duration
		Peter Thompson	(Play complete work)Suite no 03 ‘Marc Chagall Suite’ for piano	Piano	7 mins
	#	Composer	Movement	Forces	Duration
	1	Peter Thompson	I: The Blue Circus	Piano	1 minute
	2		II: At the Barber’s		1¾ mins
	3		III: Loneliness		2 mins
	4		IV: Above the Town		1 minute
	5		V: Spring		1½ mins

Recorded performance

Ennio Caironi, Piano

Additionally, we have the performance by Oliver Williams, taken from the Piano Pictures CD, which was used to create the YouTube videos presented on this page:
  I:
 II:
III:
 IV:
  V:
Oliver Williams, Piano

Videos

I: The Blue Circus:

II: At the Barber’s:

III: Loneliness:

IV: Above the Town:

V: Spring:

Above are the five separate movements of the Marc Chagall Suite for ease of playing individually.

Catalogue code: FM016 • Published: 2006
Entry last updated: 12th December 2024