Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel
Performer: Manon Galy, Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP306
Release: 2023
Size: 1.28 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Debussy: Beau soir, L. 6 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Jascha Heifetz)
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
02. I. Allegro vivo
03. II. Intermède. Fantasque et léger
04. III. Finale. Très animé
05. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Louis Fleury)
06. Ravel: Violin Sonata in A minor ‘Sonate posthume’
07. Poulenc: Presto in B-Flat Major, FP 70 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Jascha Heifetz)
Poulenc: Violin Sonata, FP 119
08. I. Allegro con fuoco
09. II. Intermezzo
10. III. Presto tragico
11. Milhaud: Scaramouche, Op. 165b: III. Brazileira (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Jascha Heifetz)
12. Milhaud: Cinéma-fantaisie, Op. 58b
At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, all roads led to Paris. The Exposition Universelle drew great crowds, Hemingway and Kandinsky settled there, Proust wrote À la Recherche… and Cocteau La Machine infernale, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes revolutionised dance, and Debussy, Satie and Stravinsky caused scandal.
Recording together in duo for the first time, violinist Manon Galy and pianist Jorge González Buajasán capture the flavour of that time of renewal. With this eloquent interpretation of sonatas and other pieces by Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Milhaud, they offer a glimpse of the audacity and modernity that characterised French music during those years.