Impressions parisiennes

Faure, Gabriel;
Debussy, Claude;
Poulenc, Francis;
Satie, Erik;
Ravel, Maurice;
Trotignon, Baptiste

Quatuor Van Kuijk

Alpha 1067

Having recorded the 'great' French quartets of Debussy and Ravel (Alpha 295), the Van Kuijk Quartet now takes another path and explores treasures by Fauré, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano or voice. The mark of the string quartet is secretly apparent in this programme, which includes Debussy's Petite Suite pour piano à quatre mains, Ravel's famous Pavane pour une infante défunte and well-known songs by Poulenc, Fauré and Satie in transcriptions made especially for this recording by Emmanuel François, the Quartet's violist, and by Jean-Christophe Masson and Gildas Guillon. The Quartet also asked the jazz pianist and composer Baptiste Trotignon to create a work that would freely resonate alongside the styles of the composers whose works had been transcribed. An entire universe has now been re-created without any nostalgia or pastiche behind the first names of these composers, Ces Messieurs. The Van Kuijks have woven their instruments in and around these miniatures and here unfold a programme that is all lightness and delight.

YB: https://youtu.be/nMG3bqlr15s

YB: https://youtu.be/qjdPHe5VJvQ

Works:

•Francis Poulenc: Poeme de Louis Aragnon Nr. 1 "C."
•Francis Poulenc: Fetes galantes
•Francis Poulenc: Fleurs
•Francis Poulenc: Les chemins de l'amour
•Francis Poulenc: Hotel
•Francis Poulenc: Fancy
•Baptiste Trotignon: Ces Messieurs
•Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
•Erik Satie: Je te veux
•Claude Debussy: Petite Suite
•Gabriel Faure: Les berceaux op. 23 Nr. 1
• Gabriel Faure: Clair de lune op. 46 Nr. 2
•Gabriel Faure: Apres un reve op. 7 Nr. 1
•Gabriel Faure: Mandoline op. 58 Nr. 1

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Alpha

02-09-2024

3701624510674