Sérgio Pires / Kosuke Akimoto
Les Six, Merci et Adieu Claude
- Type CD
- Label CAvi
- UPC 4260085530380
- Catalog number AVI 8553038
- Release date 04 February 2022
About the album
LES SIX Merci et Adieu, Claude
„In the 19th and 20th centuries, French music achieved a unique profile and was widely acknowledged on the international scene. This success was due, last not least, to symbolic figures such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, and the “Groupe des Six,” in spite of their divergent aesthetic tendencies.…
After the French defeat against Germany in 1871, Saint-Saëns became one of the founders of the “Société Nationale de Musique”, with the goal of promoting the French music of his time. Forty years later, the “Groupe des Six” would pursue similar objectives, but with different aesthetic ideals; Saint-Saëns would vehemently reject them.
….. The work’s predominantly Romantic style hardly betrays the fact that Claude Debussy had passed away three years earlier, and that the young composers who made up the “Groupe des Six” were already embarking on completely new musical paths.
Still, Saint-Saëns agreed with his younger colleagues about the need of foregoing the monumental bombast and Wagnerian pathos of Late Romantic music. Debussy and the “Groupe des Six” were more decisive and resolute in venturing a step further back in time, past Romanticism, and orienting themselves toward Baroque and Classical models, which led to a flowering of Neo-Classical musical tendencies.
With his individual aesthetics, Claude Debussy occupies a special position: he can not be reckoned among any school or group, and he certainly did not like to be called an “Impressionist.” In a certain sense, he is like a monolith.………….“ (From the booklet notes by Pedro Obiera)
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11Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat Major, Op. 167 (1921) I Allegretto
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12Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat Major, Op. 167 (1921) II Allegro Animato
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13Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat Major, Op. 167 (1921) III Lento
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14Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E flat Major, Op. 167 (1921) IV Molto Allegro
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15Première Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano, L. 116 (1909/10)
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16Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano (1920) I Moderé
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17Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano (1920) II Lent et soutenu
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18Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano (1920) III Vif et rythmique
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19Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 100 (1927) I Très rude
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110Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 100 (1927) II Lent
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111Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 100 (1927) III Très rude
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112Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat Major, FP 184 (1962) I Allegro tristamente
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113Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat Major, FP 184 (1962) II Romanza
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114Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B flat Major, FP 184 (1962) III Allegro con fuoco
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115Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano (1998) Tema
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116Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano (1998) Variation I
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117Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano (1998) Variation II
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118Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano (1998) Variation III
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119Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano (1998) Variation IV
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120Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano (1998) Variation V
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121Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano (1998) Variation VI
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