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On the occasion of the first edition of the Saint-Émilion Festival (Gironde, France) in 1967, the Loewenguth Quartett was invited to perform Henri Sauguet's String Quartett Nr. 2. Due to the success o...

The viola da gamba has always awakened my listening to this strange concept of the "inside of the sound". Why this instrument and not another one? The bow's peculiar smile? It seemed to me then, and...

Alongside his works devoted to the piano (his "water-divining rod") Henri Sauguet wrote numerous pages for a solo instrument, wether they are concert works for renowned instrumentalists (as his Sonate...

Learning at a very early age the piano and the violin and surrounded by brothers and sisters playing the piano and string instruments, Jean Cras quickly came to compose chamber music. First a piano tr...

The manuscript of Sine nomine mentions as the date of completion: "Paris, 24/2/1987". The circumstances of its birth should have led to a radically different result to what we are listening: it was su...

This Sonata was initially conceived (in 1995) for solo cello. It rapidly proved unplayable in this form. In 1996 it was entirely recast for two cellos. This was not simply a matter of transcribing it,...

Learning at a very early age the piano and the violin and surrounded by brothers and sisters playing the piano and string instruments, Jean Cras quickly came to compose chamber music. First a piano tr...

The stylistically very classic Variations en forme de chaconne were first performed on 23rd February 1902 by Gaston Courras, a cellist at the Paris Opera, and the composer at the piano. This piece bel...

All his life, Sauguet had been in touch with artists of diμerent generations and backgrounds: composers of course, interpreters, choreographers and dancers, poets, actors, painters and decorators, fil...

All his life, Sauguet had been in touch with artists of diμerent generations and backgrounds: composers of course, interpreters, choreographers and dancers, poets, actors, painters and decorators, fil...

All his life, Sauguet had been in touch with artists of diμerent generations and backgrounds: composers of course, interpreters, choreographers and dancers, poets, actors, painters and decorators, fil...

Held by the archives of the Périgueux and Sarlat dioceses, the only known autograph manuscript of the Suite courte for flute and chromatic harp is not dated. Yet, two pieces of information may give an...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor (KV 626), an emblematic work of the sacred repertoire, remains one of the best-known compositions in the history of classical music. Completed after Mozart...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor (KV 626), an emblematic work of the sacred repertoire, remains one of the best-known compositions in the history of classical music. Completed after Mozart...

Details: 9 women's voices and 3 instruments

Details: nine women's voices

Heather Dohollau's poetry always ventures to the border of words and silence. A native of Wales but having lived in France since 1950, Heather Dohollau (1925-2013) had found, through the confrontation...

This Dixit, which would have opened the vespers to the Virgin, could have also been written for the Sunday vespers; however the existence of an Introduzione al Dixit autograph score in Turin which all...

The Bible poem called "The Song of Songs" is an effusion of human love between a man and his wife. God is never mentio- ned but is everywhere as if he wanted to imitate the love between a man and a wo...

The performance of the Coronation Mass and the Requiem for the inauguration of the Mozart monument in Salzburg in September 1842, was conducted by Sigismund Neukomm (Salzburg, 1778-Paris, 1858), a tod...

The Libera me for mixed chorus was commissioned in 2006 by chorus master Lionel Sow and dedicated to him. A few years before, I had been deeply moved by the marvellous Sonnets de la Gélodacrye by the...

The genesis of Lamentation is a matter of friendship. Composed in memory of my friend and composer Laurent Galmiche who died prematurely, this piece was created in Montpellier in April 2008 by Anna Re...