Boeuf / Quartet - Imaginist - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The CD begins with one of Friedrich Cerha's first surviving compositions, the Hindemith-like First Violin Sonata of 1947. Two later works, from almost half a century on, complete the stylistic trajectory. One of them, the Sechs Stucke fur Violine Solo, was written for the violinist on this CD, Ernst Kovacic, a friend of the composer for many years. Cerha wrote the booklet notes, available in English and German.

This Disc is devoted completely to the music of Vancouver composer Owen Underhill comprised of 4 major works composed between 1998 and 2011 featuring Montreal's Quator Bozzini. Underhill is winner of the 2007 Most Outstanding Composer in Western Canadian Music Awards and is considered Robert-Everett-Green of the Globe and Mail says Underhill is 'one of the most thoughtful and effective of West Coast composers'.

The Quatuor Voce presents Poétiques de l'instant, a long-term project and a diptych of recordings that aim to combine two of the key works in the repertory of any string quartet - the masterpieces of Debussy and Ravel - with other pieces of music and new compositions. This first instalment focuses on Debussy's Quartet and the Quatuor Voce has enlisted a young composer, Yves Balmer, for the works that revolve around it he has arranged the Proses lyriques song cycle and has also composed a new piece, Fragments soulevés par le vent. To record this program, the quartet has chosen to perform alongside three exceptional artists, the soprano Jodie Devos, the flautist Juliette Hurel and the harpist Emmanuel Ceysson.