Monet Quintett - Dubugnon, Taffanel, Holst and Françaix- Wind Quintets (2020/2023) [Official Digital Download]

The wind quintet is probably the only chamber music instrumentation that can claim to have been invented twice. The colorful combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon enjoyed great popularity at aristocratic courts in the 18th century, probably because of its refreshingly serenade-like sound, and animated composers to write a large number of works. After the French Revolution and the resulting decline of the aristocracy, the wind quintet rarely found its way into the now emerging bourgeois chamber music and thus slowly fell into oblivion. An enrichment is also the Frenglish Suite by the Swiss composer RICHARD DUBUGNON from 1997. Regarding the unusual title with the artificial word from "French" and "English", Dubugnon himself writes that he has indeed processed influences from various English and French composers here……..The French flutist and composer PAUL TAFFANEL was passionate in the mid-19th century about reviving compositions of bygone eras by founding chamber music societies……..Less well known is the late Romantic Quintet in A-flat Major, Op. 14 by GUSTAV HOLST, which in turn showcases other facets of instrumentation: The work is rich in densely set harmonies and warm timbres, reminiscent of the slow movement from Taffanel's Quintet……..Even JEAN FRANÇAIX possessed a keen knowledge of the instruments and used it purposefully in his Quintette No. 1 to create "high degrees of difficulty," as he himself remarked. He wrote the piece as a twenty-year-old in 1948, but it was not until 1954 that five wind players of the Orchestre National in Paris took heart and finally performed the work after supposedly months of seclusion. Until then, the piece had been considered technically unplayable for a full six years……

TRACKLIST

1. Monet Quintett - Frenglish Suite, for Wind Quintet: Ouverture - Theme Gordie - Var I-VII
2. Monet Quintett - I. Allegretto con moto
3. Monet Quintett - II. Andante
4. Monet Quintett - III. Vivace
5. Monet Quintett - I. Allegro moderato (un poco rubato)
6. Monet Quintett - II. Adagio
7. Monet Quintett - III. Minuet (in Canon). Allegretto
8. Monet Quintett - IV. Air and Variations. Poco allegro e cantabile
9. Monet Quintett - I. Andante tranquillo. Allegro assai
10. Monet Quintett - II. Presto
11. Monet Quintett - III. Tema. Andante
12. Monet Quintett - IV. Temo di Marchia francese



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