Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, Messiaen et al - Beau Soir - Janine Jansen & Itamar Golan (2010)

Posted By : Goodspeed | Date : 26 Jan 2011 18:14:58 | Comments : 3 |

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For her first recital recording, Decca violinist Janine Jansen has chosen French music. Running through the album, entitled "Beau Soir" – after Debussy’s lovely early song, which she plays in a transcription for violin and piano – is the theme of night. Noted chamber-music specialist Itamar Golan partners the celebrated young Dutch virtuoso. With such familiar classics as Fauré’s Après un rêve; Clair de lune, another exquisite song by Debussy; Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne; and three new works by the widely admired contemporary Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon whose Violin Concerto Janine Jansen premiered in Paris in 2008, the programme moves from evening to moonlight, from lullabies into sleep, from dreams to awakening and recollection. Also integrated into Beau Soir is music by Messiaen (his Theme and Variations for violin and piano) as well as violin sonatas by Debussy and Ravel.

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Tracklisting:

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor
g-moll · en sol mineur

1.I Allegro vivo
2.II Intermède. Fantasque et léger
3.III Finale. Très animé

4.Beau Soir
Fine Evening · Schöner Abend

5.Clair de lune
Moonlight · Mondschein transcr.

RICHARD DUBUGNON (1968)
6.La Minute exquise
The Supreme Minute · Die erlesene Minute

LILI BOULANGER (1893–1918)
7.Nocturne for violin and piano
Assez lent

RICHARD DUBUGNON
8.Hypnos

OLIVIER MESSIAEN (1908–1992)
9.Thème et Variations pour violon et piano
I Thème. Modéré – II 1e Variation. Modéré – III 2e Variation.
Un peu moins moderé – IV 3e Variation. Modéré, avec éclat –
V 4e Variation. Vif et passionné – VI 5e Variation. Très moderé 13:34

GABRIEL FAURÉ
10.Après un rêve, op. 7 no. 1
Andante

MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major
11.I Allegretto 8:25
12.II Blues. Moderato 5:40
13.III Perpetuum mobile. Allegro 3:56

RICHARD DUBUGNON
14.Retour à Montfort-l’Amaury

Personnel:
JANINE JANSEN - violin
ITAMAR GOLAN - piano