Bergen Woodwind Quintet - Jean Françaix: Quintets - Quartet - Divertissement (2012) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Bergen Woodwind Quintet
- Title: Jean Françaix: Quintets - Quartet - Divertissement
- Year Of Release: 2012
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:02:46
- Total Size: 250 / 532 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Wind Quintet: I. Andante tranquillo
02. Wind Quintet: II. Presto
03. Wind Quintet: III. Theme and Variations: Andante - L'istesso tempo - Andantino con moto - Lento - Vivo - Andante
04. Wind Quintet: IV. Tempo di marcia francese
05. Wind Quintet No. 2: I. Preludio
06. Wind Quintet No. 2: II. Toccata allegro
07. Wind Quintet No. 2: III. Scherzando
08. Wind Quintet No. 2: IV. Andante
09. Wind Quintet No. 2: V. Allegrissimo
10. Wind Quartet: I. Allegro
11. Wind Quartet: II. Andante
12. Wind Quartet: III. Allegro molto
13. Wind Quartet: IV. Allegro vivo
14. Divertissement: I. Prelude: Moderato
15. Divertissement: II. Allegretto assai
16. Divertissement: III. Elegie: Grave
17. Divertissement: IV. Scherzo
The chamber music of French composer Jean Françaix, whose career ran from the era of Les Six almost down to the present day, offers numerous small pleasures, of which this group of wind pieces, dating from 1927 to 1987, contains representative examples. The composer's style evolved only in details over that long period. Françaix's works are stylistically conservative, densely contrapuntal, yet light in mood and high-spirited like those of most of his French contemporaries. The wind writing here is quite difficult, and a pure delight to hear in the hands of Norway's Bergen Woodwind Quintet, whose endurance in producing clean lines of counterpoint over long stretches is impressive. They render colorful effects like the intentional squawking in the first movement of the Wind Quintet No. 1 (1948), which would seem jazz-like were the music not placed in a slightly different context, very skillfully. And as usual, the Hybrid Super Audio sound from BIS, whose engineers worked in a Protestant church in a small island town near Bergen, is strong enough to provide audiophiles with a reason for purchase all by themselves. Beyond those fortunate folk, this can be recommended to anyone wishing to sample the music of Françaix, an hour of which goes a long way.
01. Wind Quintet: I. Andante tranquillo
02. Wind Quintet: II. Presto
03. Wind Quintet: III. Theme and Variations: Andante - L'istesso tempo - Andantino con moto - Lento - Vivo - Andante
04. Wind Quintet: IV. Tempo di marcia francese
05. Wind Quintet No. 2: I. Preludio
06. Wind Quintet No. 2: II. Toccata allegro
07. Wind Quintet No. 2: III. Scherzando
08. Wind Quintet No. 2: IV. Andante
09. Wind Quintet No. 2: V. Allegrissimo
10. Wind Quartet: I. Allegro
11. Wind Quartet: II. Andante
12. Wind Quartet: III. Allegro molto
13. Wind Quartet: IV. Allegro vivo
14. Divertissement: I. Prelude: Moderato
15. Divertissement: II. Allegretto assai
16. Divertissement: III. Elegie: Grave
17. Divertissement: IV. Scherzo
The chamber music of French composer Jean Françaix, whose career ran from the era of Les Six almost down to the present day, offers numerous small pleasures, of which this group of wind pieces, dating from 1927 to 1987, contains representative examples. The composer's style evolved only in details over that long period. Françaix's works are stylistically conservative, densely contrapuntal, yet light in mood and high-spirited like those of most of his French contemporaries. The wind writing here is quite difficult, and a pure delight to hear in the hands of Norway's Bergen Woodwind Quintet, whose endurance in producing clean lines of counterpoint over long stretches is impressive. They render colorful effects like the intentional squawking in the first movement of the Wind Quintet No. 1 (1948), which would seem jazz-like were the music not placed in a slightly different context, very skillfully. And as usual, the Hybrid Super Audio sound from BIS, whose engineers worked in a Protestant church in a small island town near Bergen, is strong enough to provide audiophiles with a reason for purchase all by themselves. Beyond those fortunate folk, this can be recommended to anyone wishing to sample the music of Françaix, an hour of which goes a long way.
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