Quatuor Van Kuijk - Impressions parisiennes (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Having recorded the 'great' French quartets of Debussy and Ravel (ALPHA295), the Van Kuijk Quartet now takes another path and explores treasures by Faure, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano or voice. The mark of the string quartet is secretly apparent in this programme, which includes Debussy's Petite Suite pour piano a quatre mains, Ravel's famous Pavane pour une infante defunte and well-known songs by Poulenc, Faure and Satie in transcriptions made especially for this recording by Emmanuel Francois, the Quartet's violist, and by Jean-Christophe Masson and Gildas Guillon. The Quartet also asked the jazz pianist and composer Baptiste Trotignon to create a work that would freely resonate alongside the styles of the composers whose works had been transcribed. An entire universe has now been re-created without any nostalgia or pastiche behind the first names of these composers, Ces Messieurs. The Van Kuijks have woven their instruments in and around these miniatures and here unfold a programme that is all lightness and delight.

TRACKLIST

01. Quatuor Van Kuijk - 2 Poèmes de Louis Aragon, FP 122: No. 1, C. (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
02. Quatuor Van Kuijk - 2 Poèmes de Louis Aragon, FP 122: No. 2, Fêtes galantes (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
03. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101: No. 6, Fleurs (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
04. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Les chemins de l’amour, FP 106-Ia (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
05. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Banalités, FP 107: No. 2, Hôtel (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
06. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Fancy, FP 174 (Arr. for String Quartet by Jean-Christophe Masson)
07. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Ces Messieurs: Francis
08. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
09. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Ces Messieurs: Maurice
10. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Je te veux (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
11. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Ces Messieurs: Erik
12. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Petite Suite, L.65: I. En bateau
13. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Petite Suite, L. 65: II. Cortège (Arr. for String Quartet by Emmanuel François)
14. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Petite Suite, L. 65: III. Menuet (Arr. for String Quartet by Emmanuel François)
15. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Petite Suite, L. 65: IV. Ballet (Arr. for String Quartet by Emmanuel François)
16. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Ces Messieurs: Claude
17. Quatuor Van Kuijk - 3 mélodies, Op. 23: No. 1, Les berceaux (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
18. Quatuor Van Kuijk - 2 Mélodies, Op. 46: No. 2, Clair de lune (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
19. Quatuor Van Kuijk - 3 mélodies, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
20. Quatuor Van Kuijk - 5 Mélodies, Op. 58: No. 1, Mandoline (Arr. for String Quartet by Gildas Guillon)
21. Quatuor Van Kuijk - Ces Messieurs: Gabriel



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