FRENCH CHAMBER MUSIC FOR WOODWINDS

VOLUME ONE

DISC A

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

1. Rapsodie for cor anglais

2. Syrinx

3. Première rapsodie

Sonata for flute, viola and harp

4. Pastorale: Lento, dolce rubato

5. Interlude: Tempo di minuetto

6. Final: Allegro moderato ma risoluto

7. Le petit nègre

8. Petite pièce

9. Rapsodie for saxophone

DISC B

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

1. Odelette

Sonata for clarinet

2. Allegretto

3. Allegro animato

4. Lento

5. Allegro

6. Feuillet d'album

Sonata for bassoon

7. Allegro moderato

8. Allegro scherzando

9. Molto adagio—Allegro moderato

10. Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs

Sonata for oboe

11. Andantino

12. Ad libitum—Allegretto

13. Molto allegro

14. Romance

15. Tarantelle

William Bennett, flute

Nicholas Daniel, oboe

James Campbell, clarinet

Rachel Gough, bassoon

Clifford Benson, piano

Julius Drake, piano

John York, piano

David Campbell, clarinet

Simon Haram, saxophone

Ieuan Jones, harp

Robin Kennard, bassoon

Robert Maskell, horn

Roger Tapping, viola

Richard Watkins, horn

VOLUME TWO

DISC A

MAURICE RAVEL

1. Introduction and Allegro

2. Pièce en forme de habanera

FRANCIS POULENC

Oboe Sonata

3. Allegro

4. Scherzo

5. Déploration

L'invitation au château

6. ACT I: Très animé

7. Modéré

8. Lent

9. ACT II: Valse brillante

10. Très calme

11. Mouvement de valse hésitation

12. Tempo di marcia

13. Valse des petites taupes

14. ACT III: Tango

15. Très vite et très canaille

16. Mouvement de valse hésitation (reprise)

17. Appassionato

18. Tempo di Boston

19. Valse brillante

20. Tempo di tarantella

21. Polka-finale

22. ACT IV: Presto

23. Follement vite et gai

24. Finale

25. Villanelle

Sonata for two clarinets

26. Presto

27. Andante

28. Vif

Trio for oboe, bassoon, piano

29. Presto

30. Andante

31. Rondo

DISC B

FRANCIS POULENC

Sextet

1. Allegro vivace

2. Divertissement: Andantino

3. Finale: Prestissimo

Sonata for clarinet and bassoon

4. Allegro

5. Romance

6. Final: Très animé

Rapsodie nègre

7. Prélude

8. Ronde

9. Honoloulou

10. Pastorale

11. Final

Sonata for clarinet

12. Allegro tristamente

13. Romanza

14. Allegro con fuoco

Mouvements perpétuels

15. Assez modéré

16. Très modéré

17. Alerte

Sonata for flute

18. Allegro malincolico

19. Cantilena: Assez lent

20. Presto giocoso

William Bennett, flute

Nicholas Daniel, oboe

James Campbell, clarinet

Rachel Gough, bassoon

Clifford Benson, piano

Julius Drake, piano

John York, piano

Allegri String Quartet

David Campbell, clarinet

Peter Carter, violin

Ieuan Jones, harp

Peter Sidhom, baritone

Richard Watkins, horn

Chris West, double bass

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THE WOODLANDERS

Winslow Homer

Waverly Oaks

The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. The contrast of what is with what might be, probably accounts for this. To step, for instance, at the place under notice, from the hedge of the plantation into the adjoining thoroughfare, and pause amid its emptiness for a moment, was to exchange by the act of a single stride the simple absence of human companionship for an incubus of the forlorn.

At this spot, on the louring evening of a bygone winter's day, there stood a man who had thus indirectly entered upon the scene from a stile hard by, and was temporarily influenced by some such feeling of being suddenly more alone than before he had emerged upon the highway.

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Her face had the usual fulness of expression which is developed by a life of solitude. Where the eyes of a multitude continuously beat like waves upon a countenance they seem to wear away its mobile power; but in the still water of privacy every feeling and sentiment unfolds in visible luxuriance, to be interpreted as readily as a printed word by an intruder. In years she was no more than nineteen or twenty; but the necessity of taking thought at a too early period of life had forced the provisional curves of her childhood's face to a premature finality. Thus she had but little pretension to beauty; save in one prominent particular, her hair.

Its abundance made it almost unmanageable; its color was, roughly speaking, and as seen here by fire-light, brown; but careful notice, or an observation by day, would have revealed that its true shade was a rare and beautiful approximation to chestnut.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez

Mujer cosiendo

La fisonomía de una carretera desierta expresa soledad hasta un grado que no alcanzan meros valles y colinas, y sugiere una quietud sepulcral más enfática que la de claros y charcas. El contraste entre lo que es y lo que podría ser quizá dé razón de este hecho. Caminar, por ejemplo, en el lugar mencionado, desde el seto de la finca hasta la vía adyacente, y detenerse en su desolación por un momento, era cambiar mediante el acto de una sola zancada la simple ausencia de compañía humana por un íncubo del abandono.

En ese sitio, bajo el encapotado atardecer de un día de invierno ya lejano, se encontraba un hombre que había llegado indirectamente a través de los escalones de una cerca lindante, y se vio momentáneamente influido por la sensación de hallarse de repente más solo que antes de haber salido a la carretera.

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Su rostro tenía la habitual plenitud de expresión que se desarrolla en una vida de soledad. Cuando los ojos de una multitud baten continuamente como olas sobre un semblante, parece como si erosionaran su poder de expresión; pero en el agua tranquila de la privacidad cada sensación y cada sentimiento se revelan con visible exuberancia, para ser interpretados, tan fácilmente como una palabra impresa, por un intruso. En años, no contaba más de diecinueve o veinte; pero la necesidad de tomar conciencia a edad muy temprana había forzado las curvas provisionales de su rostro de infancia hasta una resolución prematura. De modo que apenas tenía ninguna pretensión de belleza; salvo en un prominente detalle, el cabello.

Su abundancia lo hacía casi inmanejable; su color era, a grandes rasgos, y tal como se veía ahora a la luz de la lumbre, castaño; pero una observación más atenta, o el contemplarlo de día, hubieran revelado que su verdadero matiz era una poco frecuente y hermosa aproximación al castaño rojizo.

Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders
Traducción de Alan

Władysław Ślewiński

Woman Brushing Her Hair

Arjip Kuíndzhi

Tras la lluvia

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ALBERT ROUSSEL

COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC, VOL. 1

Piano Trio

1. Modéré sans lenteur - Très animé

2. Lent

3. Très lent - Vif et gaiement

Divertissement

for wind quintet and piano

4. Animé - Lent - Animé

Sonata No. 1

for piano and violin

5. Lent - Très animé - Lent

6. Assez animé - Très lent - Assez animé

7. Très animé - Très moderé - Très animé

Jet Röling, piano

Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin

Herre-Jan Stegenga, cello

Paul Verhey, flute

Hans Roerade, oboe

Frank Van Den Brink, clarinet

Herman Jeurissen, horn

Jos de Lange, bassoon

COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC, VOL. 2

1. Impromptu

for harp solo

Deux poèmes de Ronsard

for flute and soprano

2. Rossignol, mon mignon

3. Ciel, aer et vens

Joueurs de flûte

for flute and piano

4. Pan

5. Tityre

6. Krishna

7. M. de la Péjaudie

Sonata No. 2

for piano and violin

8. Allegro con moto

9. Andante

10. Presto

11. Segovia

for guitar

Serénade

for flute, string trio and harp

12. Allegro

13. Andante

14. Presto

15. Duo

for bassoon and double bass

16. Aria No. 2

for oboe and piano

Irene Maessen, soprano

Paul Verhey, flute

Hans Roerade, oboe

Jos de Lange, bassoon

Jet Röling, piano

Erika Waardenburg, harp

Jan Goudswaard, guitar

Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin

Quirijn van Regteren Altena, double bass

Members of the Schönberg Quartet:

Janneke van der Meer, violin

Henk Guittart, viola

Viola de Hoog, cello

COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC, VOL. 3

Trio

for flute, viola and cello

1. Allegro grazioso

2. Andante

3. Allegro non troppo

String Quartet

4. Allegro

5. Adagio

6. Allegro vivo

7. Allegro moderato

8. Andante and Scherzo

for flute and piano

9. Pipe

for piccolo and piano

String Trio

10. Allegro moderato

11. Adagio

12. Allegro con spirito

Music from Elpénor, Poème radiophonique

for flute and string quartet

13. Prélude. Lent - Très animé

14. Modéré

15. Lent

16. Très animé

17. Andante from an unfinished Wind Trio

for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Adagio

Paul Verhey, flute and piccolo

Hans Roerade, oboe

Frank Van Den Brink, clarinet

Jos de Lange, bassoon

Jet Rôling, piano

Herre-Jan Stegenga, cello

Schönberg Quartett:

Janneke van der Meer, violin

Wim de Jong,violin

Henk Guittart, viola

Viola de Hoog, cello

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JACQUES IBERT

COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC, VOL. 1

Six pièces
for solo harp

1. Matin sur l'eau

2. Scherzetto

3. En barque, le soir...

4. Ballade

5. Reflets dans l'eau

6. Fantaisie

Deux mouvements
for wind quintet

7. Allant

8. Assez vif et rythmé

Jeux
sonatine for flute and piano

9. Animé

10. Tendre

Le jardinier de Samos
for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello and percussion

11. Overture

12. Air de danse

13. Prélude du 2ème acte

14. Prélude du 4ème acte

15. Prélude du 5ème acte

16. Française
for solo guitar

17. Aria
for flute, violin and piano

Trois pièces brèves
for wind quintet

18. Allegro

19. Andante

20. Assez lent-Allegro scherzando

21. Pastoral
for four pipes

Paraboles
for two guitars

22. Allegro moderato

23. Moderato

Cinq pièces en trio
for oboe, clarinet and basoon

24. Allegro vivo

25. Andantino

26. Allegro assai

27. Andante

28. Allegro quasi marziale

Eleonore Pameijer, flute

Pauline Oostenrijk, oboe

Hans Colbers, clarinet

Peter Gaasterland, bassoon

Herman Jeurissen, horn

Peter Masseurs, trumpet

Ernestine Stoop, harp

Sepp Grotenhuis, piano

Helenus de Rijke, percussion and pipe

Kees Hülsmann, violin

Marien van Staalen, cello

COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC, VOL. 2

1. Entr'acte
for flute and guitar

2. Ariette
for solo guitar

3. L'âge d'or, extrait du 'Chevalier errant'
for alto saxophone and piano

4. Pièce
for solo flute

Quatuor à cordes

5. Allegro risoluto

6. Andante assai

7. Presto

8. Allegro marcato

Trio
for violin, cello and harp

9. Allegro tranquillo

10. Andante sostenuto

11. Scherzando con moto

Deux interludes
for flute, violin and harpsichord

12. Andante espressivo

13. Allegro vivo

14. Étude-caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin
for solo cello

15. Ghirlarzana
for solo cello

16. Caprilena
for solo violin

17. Impromptu
for trumpet and piano

18. Carignane
for bassoon and piano

Eleonore Pameijer, flute

Peter Gaasterland, bassoon

Arno Bornkamp, alto saxophone

Peter Masseurs, trumpet

Ernestine Stoop, harp

Olga Franssen, guitar

Helenus de Rijke, guitar

Sepp Grotenhuis, piano

Menno van Delft, harpsichord

Nieuw Nederlands Strijkkwartet:

Kees Hülsmann, violin

Mieke Biesta, violin

Gerrit Oldeman, viola

Marien van Staalen, cello

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FATS WALLER

ALLIGATOR CRAWL

1. Handful of Keys

2. Numb Fumblin'

3. Ain't Misbehavin'

4. Sweet Savannah Sue

5. Love Me or Leave Me

6. Gladyse

7. Valentine Stomp

8. Goin' About

9. Smashing Thirds

10. My Fate Is in Your Hands

11. St. Louis Blues

12. After You've Gone

13. I'm Crazy `Bout My Baby

14. Draggin' My Heart Around

15. Alligator Crawl

16. Viper's Drag

17. Night Wind

18. African Ripples

19. Because of Once Upon a Time

20. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now

21. Star Dust

22. Carolina Shout

23. Honeysuckle Rose

24. Fats Waller V-Disc Happy Medley: Waller Jive/Hallelujah!

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HOT CAMERA SHAKE

LA CANCIÓN DE PRÉVERT · 16

1. Bruno Nicolai, Nancy Cuomo - Love Love Bang Bang

2. Piero Piccioni - Missione Morte Molo 83

3. Francesco de Masi - Hot Camera Shake

4. Jean Ferrat - Ma môme

5. Prince Buster - Nothing Takes the Place of You

6. Sally Timms - When the Roses Bloom Again

7. Jeff Mellin & Kristin Mueller - There Ain't No Ash Will Burn

8. Jeff Mellin - Garden Party

9. The Eddies - Valentine (to Myself)

10. Lucy Lee - Mexico

11. Petty Booka - Bla Bla Bla Cha Cha Cha

12. Oleg Kostrow - Un instant heureux (Space Mix)

13. Laura Cantrell - Hong Kong Blues

14. She & Him - I Was Made for You

15. Kim and Buran - Rock 'n' Robot

16. Los Soberanos - Pareces gitana

17. Los Abatidos - Sausalito

18. Fabienne Delsol & The Bristols - For You

19. Elks Skiffle Group - Beep Beep Cyberbaby

20. Stelvio Cipriani - Hot Skin

21. Mona Baptiste - Calypso Blues

22. Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes the Place of You

23. Lee Morse - Tain't No Sin (to Dance Around in Your Bones)

24. Annette Hanshaw - That's You Baby

Foto de Alan

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VILLAGE OF LOVE

LA CANCIÓN DE PRÉVERT · 15

1. The Detroit Cobras - Village of Love

2. Thee Headcoatees - Davey Crockett

3. Thee Headcoatees - Santa Claus

4. Jeff Alexander - Soothe My Lonely Heart

5. Jerry Goldsmith - Río Lobo

6. Neil Sedaka - Oh! Carol

7. Carole King - Oh! Neil

8. Sam Cooke - Chain Gang

9. Theola Kilgore - The Sound of My Man

10. Mary Wells - You Beat Me to the Punch

11. Gene Chandler - You Threw a Lucky Punch

12. Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl

13. The Pearlettes - Duchess of Earl

14. Ernie K-Doe - Mother-In-Law

15. The Blossoms - Son-In-Law

16. Gene McDaniels - Tower of Strength

17. Gloria Lynne - You Don't Have to Be a Tower of Strength

18. The Drifters - Save the Last Dance for Me

19. Damita Jo - I'll Save the Last Dance for You

20. Sam Cooke - Bring It on Home to Me

21. Carla Thomas - I'll Bring It on Home to You

22. Ned Nash Orchestra - Degüello (Rio Bravo)

23. Armando Trovaioli, Carmen Villani - Bada Caterina

24. Nathaniel Mayer - Village of Love

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