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Martin, Bedard, Kropfreiter et al: Music for Flute & Organ / Duo Les Brumes
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Martin, Bedard, Kropfreiter et al: Music for Flute & Organ / Duo Les Brumes

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Details

Composer
Michael Conway Baker, Denis Bedard, Augustin Franz Kropfreiter, Jean Langlais, Frank Martin, Daniel
Artist
Enea Luzzani, Tommaso Mazzoletti
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Feb 03, 2023
Catalog #
BRI96562
UPC
5028421965628

About

A unique recital on record, for a hauntingly beautiful instrumental combination, featuring several first recordings. The duo of trumpet and organ is a wellestablished one, having attracted composers from the early Baroque period onwards. The combination of flute and organ, while requiring careful balancing so that the organ does not overwhelm the flute, is no less attractive in its way, and has drawn from composers a more varied palette of expression. This new album is made by a duo of Piedmontese musicians who have explored the riches of the flute-and-organ repertoire to come up with a balanced selection of pieces written by 20th- and 21st-century composers on both sides of the Atlantic.


Duo Les Brumes begin with an undoubted masterpiece: the Sonata da Chiesa which the Swiss composer Frank Martin originally composed in 1939 for viola d'amore and organ. Because his Dutch wife Maria Boeke was an excellent flautist, he also produced a version for flute and organ in 1941. The sonata’s three sections enclose a sequence of gentle, neoclassical dance movements between two reflective slow movements. The album’s other substantial work is Ain Karim, a fantasia composed in 1995 by the Swiss
organist-composer Daniel Roth. Aïn Karim is the name of the place near Jerusalem where Mary, mother of Jesus, is thought to have visited her cousin Elisabeth and spoken the words of the ‘Magnificat’. Daniel Roth has taken part of this text ('He puts down the mighty from their seat and exalts the humble and meek') to emphasise the contrast between the ‘small’ flute and the ‘monumental’ organ. In between, Duo Les Brumes present a gallery of vividly coloured miniatures: a suite of Four Pieces composed in 1962 by the Austrian composer Augustin Franz Kropfreiter (1936-2003), within the same kind of ‘modern neoclassical’ vein as Martin’s Sonata da Chiesa; then Five Pieces by Jean Langlais, more extrovert in character. Two Canadian composers are also represented with the radiant, soaring Melodia by Denis Bédard and the Elegy by Michael Conway Baker.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Sonata da Chiesa 15:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    Sonata da Chiesa
    Duration
    15:48
    Composer
    Frank Martin
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  2. 2 Melodia 04:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    Melodia
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Denis Bédard
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  3. 3 No. 1. — 03:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1. —
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  4. 4 No. 2. — 03:30
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 2. —
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  5. 5 No. 3. — 01:34
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 3. —
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  6. 6 No. 4. — 01:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 4. —
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  7. 7 No. 1. Assez lent 02:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Assez lent
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Jean Langlais
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  8. 8 No. 2. Lent 02:19
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Lent
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Jean Langlais
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  9. 9 No. 3. Allegro 01:37
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. Allegro
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Jean Langlais
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  10. 10 No. 4. Lent 02:54
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. Lent
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Jean Langlais
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  11. 11 No. 5. Vivace 01:05
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 5. Vivace
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Jean Langlais
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  12. 12 Elegy, Op. 21 04:31
    Track
    12
    Title
    Elegy, Op. 21
    Duration
    04:31
    Composer
    Michael Conway Baker
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes
  13. 13 Aïn Karim 01:59
    Track
    13
    Title
    Aïn Karim
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Daniel Roth
    Ensemble
    Les Brumes