Impressions parisiennes

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Release Date
September 6, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Claude Debussy, Gabriel Faure, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Baptiste Trotignon
    • PERFORMER
      Quatuor Van Kuijk
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 06, 2024
    • UPC
      3701624510674
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1067
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. C

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    2. No. 2. Fêtes galantes

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    3. Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101: No. 6. Fleurs (arr. J.-C. Masson for string quartet)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    4. Les chemins de l'amour, FP 106 (arr. J.-C. Masson for string quartet)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    5. Banalités, FP 107: No. 2. Hôtel (arr. J.-C. Masson for string quartet)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    6. Fancy, FP 174 (arr. J.-C. Masson for string quartet)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    7. Ces Messieurs: I. Francis

      Composer: Baptiste Trotignon

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    8. Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. G. Guillon for string quartet)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    9. Ces Messieurs: III. Maurice

      Composer: Baptiste Trotignon

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    10. Je te veux (arr. G. Guillon for string quartet)

      Composer: Erik Satie

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    11. Ces Messieurs: IV. Erik

      Composer: Baptiste Trotignon

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    12. I. En bateau

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    13. II. Cortège

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    14. III. Menuet

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    15. IV. Ballet

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    16. Ces Messieurs: V. Claude

      Composer: Baptiste Trotignon

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    17. Les berceaux, Op. 23, No. 1 (arr. G. Guillon for string quartet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    18. Clair de lune, Op. 46, No. 2 (arr. G. Guillon for string quartet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    19. Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 (arr. G. Guillon for string quartet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    20. 5 Melodies de Venise, Op. 58: No. 1. Mandoline (arr. G. Guillon for string quartet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk

    21. Ces Messieurs: II. Gabriel

      Composer: Baptiste Trotignon

      Ensemble: Quatuor Van Kuijk


Having recorded the 'great' French quartets of Debussy and Ravel (ALPHA295), the Van Kuijk Quartet now takes another path and explores treasures by Faure, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano or voice. The mark of the string quartet is secretly apparent in this programme, which includes Debussy's Petite Suite pour piano � quatre mains, Ravel's famous Pavane pour une infante defunte and well-known songs by Poulenc, Faure and Satie in transcriptions made especially for this recording by Emmanuel Francois, the Quartet's violist, and by Jean-Christophe Masson and Gildas Guillon. The Quartet also asked the jazz pianist and composer Baptiste Trotignon to create a work that would freely resonate alongside the styles of the composers whose works had been transcribed. An entire universe has now been re-created without any nostalgia or pastiche behind the first names of these composers, Ces Messieurs. The Van Kuijks have woven their instruments in and around these miniatures and here unfold a programme that is all lightness and delight.