Back To Burgmuller for phrasing in the Romantic genre

Friedrich Burgmuller's Twenty-Five Easy and Progressive Pieces, Op. 100, provide a feast of opportunities to develop a tonal vocabulary of well-contoured phrases. Regardless of tempo or mood set, these individual tableaux draw on the player's imagination to realize picturesque titles, while creating clean melodic and harmonic lines. "Tender Flower," (Tendre Fleur), No. 10, opens with…