Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 5 / Septura

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 10, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DEBUSSY FAURE RAVEL
    • PERFORMER
      Septura
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 10, 2017
    • UPC
      747313361977
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573619
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    2. II. Le Petit Poucet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    3. III. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    4. IV. Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    5. V. Le Jardin féerique

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    6. Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    7. No. 1. Nicolette

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    8. No. 2. Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    9. No. 3. Ronde

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Ensemble: Septura

    10. Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Septura

    11. Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op. 1, No. 1 (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Septura

    12. Le Secret, Op. 23, No. 3 (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Septura

    13. Automne, Op. 18, No. 3 (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Septura

    14. Fleur jetée, Op. 39, No. 2 (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Septura

    15. Les Roses d'Ispahan, Op. 39, No. 4 (arr. M. Knight for brass septet)

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Septura

    16. No. 6. Des Pas sur la neige

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Septura

    17. No. 8. La Fille aux cheveux de lin

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Septura

    18. No. 12. Minstrels

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Septura

    19. No. 6. General Lavine - eccentric

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Septura

    20. No. 5. Bruyères

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Septura

    21. No. 10. La Cathédrale engloutie

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: Septura


Septura turns to one of the most groundbreaking periods of music history: France at the onset of the twentieth century. In this fertile compositional field, solo brass instruments flourished, but the chamber music landscape was barren. And so the group re-imagines works by three composers who defined France’s unique musical direction: Faure, Debussy and Ravel. Conjuring the full kaleidoscope of colors possible from seven brass instruments, they trace the origins of Impressionism, from Faure’s masterful melodies through to the iconic piano works of Debussy and Ravel.

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REVIEW:

The Fifth in this series from the quite remarkable London-based Septura is a disc full of innovative ideas of re-scoring familiar music made by members of the septet. The most extended section of the disc comes with six of the Preludes Debussy wrote for solo piano arranged by Simon Cox; here Septura embellish the music with the sonorities Debussy would no doubt have used. Indeed the arrangement of La Cathedral engloutie, which ends the disc, emerges as one of the finest pieces the composer never actually wrote. The virtuosity that the group display is quite remarkable, technical challenges never existing in their elevated musical world. The recording quality is equally superb.

– David's Review Corner (David Denton)