Quatuor Zahir
AP346 - 1CD - 66' - Mar 29, 2024
The four saxophonists of the Quatuor Zahir set the scene for this second recording, which brings together the emblematic composers of twentieth-century France and their masterpieces. Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte and Trois Chansons, Nadia Boulanger's Trois Pièces, Poulenc's Chemins de l'amour, Charles d'Orléans's Trois Chansons, Debussy's Petite Suite and Rêverie all take on the warm timbres of their instruments in these arrangements for saxophone quartet, revealing new colours. They are echoed by two premières, Graciane Finzi's Petite Suite and Fabien Waksman's Les Lunes galantes, conceived as a fifth movement to Debussy's Petite Suite.
Here the Quatuor Zahir is reaffirming its commitment to creation, its virtuosity too, but above all the singularity of its unique musical identity.
The four saxophonists of the Quatuor Zahir set the scene for this second recording, which brings together the emblematic composers of twentieth-century France and their masterpieces. Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte and Trois Chansons, Nadia Boulanger's Trois Pièces, Poulenc's Chemins de l'amour, Charles d'Orléans's Trois Chansons, Debussy's Petite Suite and Rêverie all take on the warm timbres of their instruments in these arrangements for saxophone quartet, revealing new colours. They are echoed by two premières, Graciane Finzi's Petite Suite and Fabien Waksman's Les Lunes galantes, conceived as a fifth movement to Debussy's Petite Suite.
Here the Quatuor Zahir is reaffirming its commitment to creation, its virtuosity too, but above all the singularity of its unique musical identity.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans L.99
1. Dieu ! qu’il la fait bon regarder !
2. Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
3. Yver, vous n’estes qu’un vilain
MAURICE RAVEL
4. Pavane pour une infante défunte M.19
CLAUDE DEBUSSY · FABIEN WAKSMAN Une Petite Suite
5. I. En bateau L.71a/1
6. II. Cortège L.71a/2
7. III. Les Lunes galantes*
8. IV. Menuet L.71a/3
9. V. Ballet L.71a/4
MAURICE RAVEL
10. À la manière de… Borodine M.63/1
GRACIANE FINZI (Une autre) Petite Suite*
11. I. Stabilité mouvante
12. II. Et passe le temps…
13. III. Hiver
14. IV. Chiacchierata
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
15. Rêverie L.76
NADIA BOULANGER Trois Pièces
16. I. Modéré
17. II. Sans vitesse et à l’aise
18. III. Vite et nerveusement rythmé
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
19. Clair de lune L.82a
MAURICE RAVEL Trois Chansons M.69
20. I. Nicolette
21. II. Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis
22. III. Ronde
FRANCIS POULENC
23. Les Chemins de l’amour FP.106-Ia
* WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
