Description
The Enescu Project began life in the concert hall and has now been faithfully recorded to create this album. The programme is devoted to the music of the great Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu, and to that of his contemporaries and friends, creating a sense of the context in which Enescu was composing.
Enescu studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Massenet and Fauré; rubbed shoulders and shared a stage with Bartók and Ravel; was the dedicatee of a sonata by Ysaÿe; and Debussy attended the premiere of Enescu’s First Symphony. Music by these composers, for different instrumental combinations, leads us to the focus of the album: Enescu’s beautiful Octet for strings, a work composed when he was only 19 and which had a profound impact on violinist Nicolas Dautricourt when he first heard it. Dautricourt is joined for this recording by a gathering of exceptional string players, and the album booklet includes a QR code that takes listeners to the spoken texts included in the original concert version of this fascinating project.
Track List
THE ENESCU PROJECT
George Enescu (1881-1955)
1 Aubade in C major for string trio
Cécile Agator, violin
Flore-Anne Brosseau, viola
Samuel Etienne, cello
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
2 Méditation de Thaïs
(Arranged for strings by N. Dautricourt)
Cécile Agator, solo violin
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
3 Three Duets for two violins, Sz.98
Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Cécile Agator, violin
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1831)
4 Sonata No.3 in D minor “Ballade”, Op.27
Dedicated to George Enescu
Nicolas Dautricourt, solo violin
George-Ioan Păiş (b.1994)
5 Mémoire Déformée — hommage à George Enescu for string octet
Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Capriccio Quartet
Romuald Grimbert-Barré, violin
Ludovic Levionnois, viola
Edouard Sapey-Triomphe, cello
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
6 Élégie in C minor, Op.24
(Arranged for violoncello and strings by A. Lamarre)
Benedict Klöckner, solo cello
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
7 Pavane pour une infante défunte
(Arranged for strings by N. Dautricourt)
Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Capriccio Quartet
George Enescu
Octet for strings in C major, Op.7
8 Très modéré
9 Très fougueux
10 Lentement
11 Mouvement de valse bien rythmée
Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Capriccio Quartet
Maya Koch, violin
David Gaillard, viola
Benedict Klöckner, cello
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.