| Label: OboeClassics Catalog: CC2025 Format: CD Francis POULENC: Trio (written 1926, recorded 1928) Ludwig THUILLE: Gavotte from the Sextet (written 1887, recorded 1929) Georges AURIC: Trio (written c.1938, recorded 1938) Albert ROUSSEL: Divertissement, op.6 (written 1906, recorded 1955) Marguerite ROESGEN-Champion: Pastorale (recorded 1936) Jacques HOTTETERRE: Suite/Sonata in D (written 1715, recorded 1950) Pierre-Octave FERROUD: Trio (written 1933, recorded 1936) Igor STRAVINSKY: Pastorale (written/arranged 1907/1933, recorded 1933) André JOLIVET: Sérénade pour quintette à vent avec hautbois principal (written 1945, recorded 1958) Jules MASSENET: "La Troyenne regrettant sa patrie" from Les Erinnyes (written 1873, recorded 1931) The 24-page full colour CD booklet includes an extended article by oboist and scholar Geoffrey Burgess on the milieu that produced this fertile outpouring of French wind writing and playing.
What is 'French' about French composers and players? In these recordings we can hear virtuosity, tangy tone colours, and a sheer joie de vivre that can be missing from some more careful modern performances.
Tempos are break-neck, especially from pianist/composer Francis Poulenc and in the Trio by Georges Auric; but there is a Debussy-like sensuousness in Albert Roussel's Divertissement. The oboist in that piece is Pierre Pierlot, who can also be heard in the solo oboe part of André Jolivet's Sérénade, and in a Sonata by Jacques Hotteterre.
Two lesser-known composers here are Marguerite Roesgen-Champion with a delightful Pastorale; and Pierre-Octave Ferroud, with an original and virtuosic Trio.
Other oboists featured include Louis Bas, Louis Bleuzet, Roland Lamorlette and Myrtile Morel. allowing it to grow towards a natural conclusion.
"French music is clarity, elegance and simple and natural declamation; above all, French music wants to please." Claude Debussy, writing in La Revue bleue Price: $19.98 |