Jean Francaix: 100 Anniversary Box
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Label: Wergo
Cat No: WER69562
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Release Date: 3rd December 2012
Contents
Works
Pieces pittoresques (10)Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra
Danses (7) d'apres le ballet 'Les malheurs de Sophie'
Danses exotiques (8)
Elegie (pour celebrer le bicentenaire de la mort de Mozart)
Guitar Concerto
Harpsichord Concerto
Hommage a l'ami Papageno: fantasy on themes from 'The Magic Flute'
L'Heure du berger
Le gai Paris
Mozart new-look: fantasy for double bass and wind based on the serenade from Don Giovanni
Petite valse europeenne
Pieces (9) caracteristiques
Portraits (5) de jeunes filles
Quasi improvvisando
Variations (11) sur un theme de Haydn
Variations sur un theme plaisant, for piano and wind
Marches militaires (3), op.51 D733 (trans. for 10 wind instruments by Jean Francaix)
Artists
Jean Francaix (piano, harpsichord, speaker)Claude Francaix (piano)
Ichiro Noda (double bass)
Carole Dawn Reinhart (trumpet)
Agathe Wanek (piano)
Emanuele Segre (guitar)
John Dvorachek (drums)
Mainz Wind Ensemble
Amade Wind Ensemble
Sinfonie Orchester des Sudwestfunks, Baden-Baden
Radio Sinfonie Orchester Saarbucken
South West German Chamber Orchestra
Conductors
Klaus Rainer SchollPierre Stoll
Emile Naoumoff
Hans Richter
Works
Pieces pittoresques (10)Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra
Danses (7) d'apres le ballet 'Les malheurs de Sophie'
Danses exotiques (8)
Elegie (pour celebrer le bicentenaire de la mort de Mozart)
Guitar Concerto
Harpsichord Concerto
Hommage a l'ami Papageno: fantasy on themes from 'The Magic Flute'
L'Heure du berger
Le gai Paris
Mozart new-look: fantasy for double bass and wind based on the serenade from Don Giovanni
Petite valse europeenne
Pieces (9) caracteristiques
Portraits (5) de jeunes filles
Quasi improvvisando
Variations (11) sur un theme de Haydn
Variations sur un theme plaisant, for piano and wind
Marches militaires (3), op.51 D733 (trans. for 10 wind instruments by Jean Francaix)
Artists
Jean Francaix (piano, harpsichord, speaker)Claude Francaix (piano)
Ichiro Noda (double bass)
Carole Dawn Reinhart (trumpet)
Agathe Wanek (piano)
Emanuele Segre (guitar)
John Dvorachek (drums)
Mainz Wind Ensemble
Amade Wind Ensemble
Sinfonie Orchester des Sudwestfunks, Baden-Baden
Radio Sinfonie Orchester Saarbucken
South West German Chamber Orchestra
Conductors
Klaus Rainer SchollPierre Stoll
Emile Naoumoff
Hans Richter
About
Françaix succeeded in finding and consolidating his own style at an early stage and became known almost overnight in 1932: according to the critic Heinrich Strobel, this work communicated the impression of "fresh water gushing forth from the source with the elegant originality of all natural elements – and at the same time appears as the creation of an artist with a clarity and awareness seldom observed in our time."
He retained his mastery of composition which effervesced with ingenious ideas and musical humour and his ability to combine musical grace and irony up to an advanced age.
2012 sees the 100th birthday of Jean Françaix. In an anniversary box, Wergo has compiled selected works from original recordings (CDs and LP from our program), showing the wide range of music by the French composer and pianist.
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