La flute à L’École de Paris

Beck, Conrad, Harsányi, Tibor, Martinu, Bohuslav, Mihalovici, Marcel, różni kompozytorzy, Tansman, Alexander, Tcherepnin, Alexander

Ruhland, Tatjana, Triendl, Oliver

OC 494

After the signal event that was World War I, gifted young composers trooped into the French metropolis full of hope. In 1925, the publisher Michel Dillard coined the term L’École de Paris (‘The Paris School’) in reference to the foreign composers then living in Paris, principally the Hungarian Tibor Harsányi (1898–1954), Poland’s Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986), Bohuslav Martinů from Czechoslovakia (1890–1959), Russia’s Alexander Tcherepnin (1899–1977), and the Romanian Marcel Mihalovici (1898–1985), all of whose works he specialised in disseminating.

These composers came to Paris from Eastern Europe and all, with the exception of Martinů [and Swiss composer Conrad Beck (1901–1989)], died there. All five initially addressed the difficult task of translating their countries’ folk music idioms into standard musical notation.

Several works on this programme are heard in their world premiere recordings.

Works:

•Beck, C: Sonatina for flute and piano (1960)
•Harsányi: Pièces (3) for flute and piano
•Martinů: Sonata for Flute & Piano, H. 306
•Mihalovici: Mélodie for flute and piano
•Mihalovici: Miroir des Songes (Quasi una sonata), Op. 112
•Tansman: Sonatina for flute and piano
•Tcherepnin: Studie

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Oehms Classics

1.09.2023

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