Philippe Gaubert
Medailles Antiques
Philippe Gaubert
Medailles Antiques
- Instrumentation Flute, Violin and Piano
- Composer Philippe Gaubert
- Editor Fenwick Smith
- Series Master Chamber Series - LudwigMasters
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Ludwig Music Publishing Company
- Order no. LU-M394491
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Description:
This trio evokes images found on a pair of "medailles antiques" (ancient medallions). Nymphes a la fontaine (Nymphs at the Spring) opens with closely interlocking figures divided amon the flute, violin and piano, effectively evoking the glitter and splash of a bubbling spring - and reminding us that Gaubert learned a thing or two from his great compatriots Ravel and Debussy. The nymphs are depicted in languid, sensuous violin solos, abetted intermittently by the flute. The piano's proposal of a Danse vif (Lively Dance) is first ignored, then taken up by the violin and finally by the flute, in a playful, light-footed conclusion. Editor Fenwick Smith has intervened in the text as little as possible, correcting obvious errors and inconsistencies, but adding no further suggestions as to style or interpretation.