Dubugnon, Taffanel, Holst & Francaix - Wind Quintets | C-AVI AVI8553008

Dubugnon, Taffanel, Holst & Francaix - Wind Quintets

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Label: C-AVI

Cat No: AVI8553008

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th October 2020

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The debut CD from the Monet Quintett featuring rare wind quintets by Dubugnon, Taffanel, Holst and Françaix.

The woodwind quintet is probably the only instrumental combination in chamber music that can claim to have been invented twice. The colourful combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon was quite popular in 18th-century noble courts, probably due to its refreshing sonority reminiscent of serenade music: composers felt inspired to write a great number of works.

Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon’s Frenglish Suite (1997) was inspired and influenced by several British and French composers.

In the late 1800s, French flautist and composer Paul Taffanel devotedly started to create chamber music societies with the intention of reviving music of the past – an uncommon initiative in those times, and therefore much to his credit.

British composer Gustav Holst’s late-Romantic Quintet in A flat major, op.14, is not as well known, but sheds light on other aspects of this instrumental combination: en lieu of virtuosity, it features a great variety of harmonies and timbres, similarly to what Taffanel had sought in his slow movement.

Jean Françaix likewise possessed thorough knowledge of all five instruments and applied it specifically in his Quintet no.1, with the goal of attaining a “high level of difficulty”, as he remarked himself.

Although Françaix wrote the piece in 1948, it was not until 1954 that five woodwind players of the Orchestre National in Paris drummed up the courage to perform the work in public after having reportedly “gone into confinement” for several months to practice it.

Reviews

The Monet Quintett play with rhythmic vitality, panache, and impressive technical accomplishment. Cavi-music’s engineering is exceptional. This is a terrific disc and will certainly qualify for one of my Recordings of the Year.  Stephen Greenbank
MusicWeb International

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