French Delights
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BISSACD1639
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 26th November 2007
Contents
Works
Suite de trois morceaux, op.116Sonatina for flute and piano, op.76
Joueurs de flute, op.27
Poemes (2) de Ronsard for flute and soprano, op.26
Sonatine for flute and piano
Suite for flute and piano, op.34
Artists
Sharon Bezaly (flute)Love Derwinger (piano)
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Works
Suite de trois morceaux, op.116Sonatina for flute and piano, op.76
Joueurs de flute, op.27
Poemes (2) de Ronsard for flute and soprano, op.26
Sonatine for flute and piano
Suite for flute and piano, op.34
Artists
Sharon Bezaly (flute)Love Derwinger (piano)
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
About
On her new release, renowned flautist Sharon Bezaly – who herself studied in Paris – celebrates this tradition, with a programme consisting of works composed between 1889 and 1946. Among the composers, some – Widor and Milhaud – are more famous than others, but not necessarily for their flute works.
Others are closely associated with the flute and, indeed, with the works here recorded. Roussel’s Joueurs de flûte is a case in point: a panorama of the flute through the ages in which each of the four movements evokes a mythical flautist, such as the Greek god Pan and the Hindu deity Krishna. Roussel has also composed the settings of two poems by Ronsard, in which Sharon Bezaly is joined by Barbara Hendricks.
'French Delights' is something of a companion piece to a previous Bezaly disc: Café au Lait, a predominantly French flute recital accompanied by Roland Pöntinen. Upon its release that disc, and the artistry of Sharon Bezaly, were highly acclaimed, for instance in French magazine Diapason: “The flute turns into the voice of enchantment, a lullaby of the senses or an invitation to dreamfulness, into planing light or the glitter of light on water – an instrument almost too beautiful.”
Here again, with the support of eminent pianist Love Derwinger, Sharon Bezaly displays her prodigious talent.
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