Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Gabriel Urbain Fauré, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, Baptiste Trotignon
Performer: Quatuor van Kuijk
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1067
Release: 2024
Size: 1.23 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Poulenc: 2 Poèmes de Louis Aragon, FP 122
01. No. 1, C. (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
02. No. 2, Fêtes galantes (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
03. Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101: No. 6, Fleurs (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
04. Poulenc: Les chemins de l’amour, FP 106-Ia (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
05. Poulenc: Banalités, FP 107: No. 2, Hôtel (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
06. Poulenc: Fancy, FP 174 (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
Trotignon: Ces Messieurs
07. Francis
08. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
Trotignon: Ces Messieurs
09. Maurice
10. Satie: Je te veux (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
Trotignon: Ces Messieurs
11. Erik
Debussy: Petite Suite (Arr. for String Quartet by Emmanuel François)
12. I. En bateau
13. II. Cortège
14. III. Menuet
15. IV. Ballet
Trotignon: Ces Messieurs
16. Claude
Fauré: 3 mélodies, Op. 23
17. No. 1, Les berceaux (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
Fauré: 2 Mélodies, Op. 46
18. No. 2, Clair de lune (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
Fauré: 3 mélodies, Op. 7
19. No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
Fauré: 5 Mélodies, Op. 58
20. No. 1, Mandoline (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
Trotignon: Ces Messieurs
21. Gabriel
Having recorded the ‘great’ French quartets of Debussy and Ravel (ALPHA295), the Van Kuijk Quartet now takes another path and explores treasures by Faure, 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 a quatre mains, Ravel’s famous Pavane pour une infante defunte and well-known songs by Poulenc, Faure and Satie in transcriptions made especially for this recording by Emmanuel Francois, 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.