Takénori Némoto, Iris Torossian, Laurent Deleuil, Cécile Achille & Ensemble Musica Nigella - Caplet le conteur (2023) [24/88]

For most music lovers and musicians, the name André Caplet conjures up images of a great conductor with an international career, and an outstanding orchestrator who orchestrated several works by Claude Debussy. But when we talk about the composer André Caplet, many seem to be unaware of the rich catalogue of works he was able to write despite his premature death at the age of 46. Yet, as his masterpiece The Fantastic Tale shows, he was without doubt a brilliant composer with an art for storytelling and an exceptional knowledge of each instrument, which enabled him to skilfully set texts to music with total respect for prosody, to delicately combine different timbres, to create a wide palette of colours, and thus to depict a sound landscape that was at once warm, limpid and polished. From the deadpan humour of Trois fables to the pain of war transcended in Les Prières, his musical discourse is always of great sincerity whatever the subject, and it touches us like the voice of our parents, telling us stories while we were children. Let us hope that these pieces, some of which are still unpublished or little known, but recorded here, will give this storyteller-composer the true recognition he so richly deserves.

Tracklist:
01. Suite persane pour dixtuor à vent: Scharki
02. Suite persane pour dixtuor à vent: Nihavendlskia
03. Suite persane pour dixtuor à vent: Samaïsi
04. La chanson la plus charmante pour voix et ensemble "Viens une flûte invisible soupire"
05. Légende (Poème symphonique pour ensemble avec saxophone principal)
06. Les Prières pour voix, harpe et quatuor à cordes: Oraison dominicale
07. Les Prières pour voix, harpe et quatuor à cordes: Salutation angélique
08. Les Prières pour voix, harpe et quatuor à cordes: Symbole des apôtres
09. Trois fables de La Fontaine pour voix et ensemble: Le Corbeau et le Renard
10. Trois fables de La Fontaine pour voix et ensemble: La Cigale et la Fourmi
11. Trois fables de La Fontaine pour voix et ensemble: Le Loup et l'Agneau
12. Conte fantastique pour harpe et quatuor à cordes (D'après Le Masque de la Mort Rouge d'Edgar Allan Poe)


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