Quatuor Alcan - Quatuors a Cordes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Seven years after their album, Debussy et le jazz, the artists of the Quatuor Debussy have conceived the idea of celebrating Ravel in three quite different ways. They have recorded a transcription by Alain Brunier of the French composer's famous Quartet, Ma mère l'Oye (the Mother Goose suite), as well as inviting vibraphone virtuoso Franck Tortiller to join in the fun by combining the original score of Le Tombeau de Couperin with jazz improvisations - an approach that Ravel, from all we know of him, would have greatly relished.

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.

Alwyn / Tippett Quartet - Music for String Quartet [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/15/2019