Tableaux de Provence: Works for Saxophone
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Composer or Director: Paule Maurice, Fernande Decrück, Claude Debussy, François Borne
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Resonus Classics
Magazine Review Date: 04/2019
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 54
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: RES10231
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Composition | Artist Credit |
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Rhapsody for alto saxophone & piano (or orchestra), L. 98 |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Dominic Childs, Saxophone Simon Callaghan, Piano |
Sonata for Saxophone and Piano |
Fernande Decrück, Composer
Dominic Childs, Saxophone Fernande Decrück, Composer Simon Callaghan, Piano |
Tableaux de Provence |
Paule Maurice, Composer
Dominic Childs, Saxophone Paule Maurice, Composer Simon Callaghan, Piano |
Fantasie Brilliant on Bizet's 'Carmen' |
François Borne, Composer
Dominic Childs, Saxophone François Borne, Composer Simon Callaghan, Piano |
Author: Guy Rickards
Debussy’s Rhapsodie, given here in a recently revised version by saxophonist and composer Vincent David, is not among his most inspired pieces, perhaps because of its difficult, one might say half-hearted gestation. It is not his worst piece either, and Dominic Childs gives a most sensitive account of it with accompanist Simon Callaghan, bringing out the real Debussian textures and almost convincing that it is 100 per cent original. They are equally sympathetic to Decruck’s lovely Sonata (1943, which also exists in a version for viola and piano), a beautifully lyrical work in four movements – or five, as the last is a fusion of nocturne and finale. It may not be great music – though I am quite taken with the lively central ‘Fileuse’ – but it is very well made and lovingly rendered here.
The remaining two pieces are slighter, although there is much poetry in the title work, by Maurice. There are five tableaux, meant here in its illustrative rather than dramatic sense, each one an exquisite miniature. Borne’s Carmen Fantasy is essentially a medley of tunes, something a number of other composers have essayed, none of them as well as Busoni in his Sixth Sonatina. Borne’s is pleasant enough and virtuosically delivered. Very good sound.
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