‘Maurice Emmanuel was an exact contemporary of Debussy but his quietly revolutionary musical

mind worked in a different way to his much more lauded compatriot. Emmanuel’s music was

saturated in Burgundian soil and it embraced folklore, carillon and modes in a progressive

absorption of influence and sound world. The six Sonatines are the perfect focus of attention to

consider the ways in which he moved from folk song to Hindu modes and thence to a very personal

relationship with baroque dance forms.’ Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International

Maurice Emmanuel’s Six Sonatines were championed by Peter Jacobs in the late 1980s. His recording

of these miniature masterpieces, the first undertaking of its kind, was the recipient of a coveted

Penguin Guide rosette in 1994.