Composer(s):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist(s):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n PRE LUDE Composer(s): Chiara Vaneigem Claude Debussy (1862-1918) No\u00e9 Gillerot Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Antoine Brun C\u00e9sar Franck (1822-1890) Artist(s): Nicolas Dupont Olga Kirpicheva PRE LUDEA NEW TAKE ON THE VIOLIN SONATAS BY DEBUSSY, POULENC AND FRANCK In 1915, all three composers who make up this recording came together in quite a particular fashion. At that point, C\u00e9sar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasdupont.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A NEW TAKE ON THE VIOLIN SONATAS BY DEBUSSY, POULENC AND FRANCK
In 1915, all three composers who make up this recording came together in quite a particular fashion. At that point, C\u00e9sar Franck (1822-1890) already passed away, while Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was unfortunately about to follow him in just a few years\u2019 time. Nevertheless, the then sixteen year old Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), very much \u2018alive and writing\u2019, audaciously addressed a letter to a wide range of French-based composers like Dukas, Roussel, Satie, Saint-Sa\u00ebns and\u2026 \u2013 not to be forgotten, of course \u2013 Debussy. This noteworthy survey very specifically inquired into Franck\u2019s role in musical history: \u201cpour savoir ce qu\u2019ils pensent de Franck\u201d, as Poulenc stated in his letter to Igor Stravinsky.
Debussy\u2019s answer, dated Saturday 23 October 1915, was conspicuously short but on first reading respectful towards Franck\u2019s merits for the long-standing classical music tradition: \u201cEn ce moment, nous devons t\u00e2cher \u00e0 ressaisir nos vieilles traditions; celles-l\u00e0 dont nous avons laiss\u00e9 la beaut\u00e9 qu\u2019elles n\u2019ont cess\u00e9 de contenir. Mais le respect que l\u2019on doit \u00e0 C\u00e9sar Franck commande d\u2019affirmer qu\u2019il est un des plus grands musiciens flamands.\u201d By describing Franck, a native Li\u00e9geois who in time got officially adopted in French circles, as a mere Flemish musician instead of one of their own great composers, one might detect a certain disdain in this obligatory praise of his colleague. Be that as it may, every work on this CD not only testifies to the idiomatic compositional possibilities of Debussy, Poulenc and, most certainly, also Franck, but in addition opens up an exciting path to some new music. It\u2019s were the title of this album comes in, as well as the call to action that preceded it!
Tim De Backer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"