While it isn't unusual to construct a recital program from similarly themed pieces of music, it is usual to do it with a majority of unknown works by unknown composers, as Jean-Pierre Ferey has done with Musiques de la Mer. Only four of the pieces here -- three by Debussy, one by Ravel -- are well-known. The rest are a mixture of late Romantic to ...
Jean Cras is a little known composer of the early twentieth century who is finding something of a niche among performers and recording artists a century later. This disc of chamber music featuring the cello is just one of several dedicated to his music released on the Timpani label alone, while other labels also issued several discs in the early ...
Piano 4 Mains contains a couple of French suites that will be fresh to fans of piano duets, paired with the old standbys of Fauré's Dolly and Ravel's Ma mère l'Oye. First up is the Rhapsodie Gaélique by Paul Ladmirault, six movements that play off of Scottish, Irish, and Breton folk music. The music is very tuneful, as expected, but also playful, ...
The German male vocal sextet Amarcord sings a cappella harmony in a contemporary context. The group sings Renaissance polyphony, but it also takes what in the U.S. would be called the male glee club style to a high pitch of accuracy, and it has a knack for presenting light material in unusual ways, with some kind of unexpected concept or deep ...
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