Transcriptions for Two Pianists

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and François-Frédéric Guy get every subtle detail in place. — Financial Times, 20th June 2015 More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN10863
Label: Chandos
Length: 63 minutes

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Bartók: Két Kép (Two Pictures), Op. 10, Sz. 46, BB 59

Work length15:01

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, François-Frédéric Guy
Recorded: 15-17 September 2014
Recording Venue: Arsenal, Metz, France

I. Viragzas (In Full Flower)

Track length7:02

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II. A falu tanca (Village Dance)

Track length7:59

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Debussy: Jeux - Poème dansé

Work length16:43

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, François-Frédéric Guy
Recorded: 15-17 September 2014
Recording Venue: Arsenal, Metz, France

I. Prelude

Track length2:11

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II. Du fond, à gauche, appraraissent deux jeunes filles craintives

Track length1:03

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III. Une des deux jeunes filles danse seule

Track length1:09

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IV. On aperçoit le jeune homme au fond, à gauche

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V. Ils dansent ensemble

Track length2:07

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VI. Le jeune homme a suivi cette dernière danse par curiosite

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VII. Dans l'emportement de leur danse, ils n'ont pas remarque

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VIII. Pourtant, le jeune homme intervient en écartant leurs tetes

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IX. Ils dansent désormais tous les trois

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X. Une balle de tennis tombe à leurs pieds

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Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, K. 15, Part I, Adoration of the Earth

Work length15:00

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, François-Frédéric Guy
Recorded: 15-17 September 2014
Recording Venue: Arsenal, Metz, France

Introduction

Track length3:14

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The Augurs of Spring - Dances of the Young Girls

Track length3:09

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Ritual of Abduction

Track length1:14

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Spring Rounds

Track length3:23

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Ritual of the River Tribes

Track length1:40

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Procession of the Sage

Track length0:42

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The Sage

Track length0:24

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Dance of the Earth

Track length1:14

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Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, K. 15, Part II, The Sacrifice

Work length17:13

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, François-Frédéric Guy
Recorded: 15-17 September 2014
Recording Venue: Arsenal, Metz, France

Introduction

Track length4:15

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Circles of the Young Girls

Track length2:50

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Glorification of the Chosen One

Track length1:26

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Evocation of the Ancestors

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Ritual Action of the Ancestors

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Sacrificial Dance

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These two-piano transcriptions played by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and François-Frédéric Guy renew our experience of three great orchestral works, each of which was premiered in 1913.

Bavouzet’s version of Jeux is, like any fine transcription, far more than a memento of the original. Not only the trills and tremolandos needed on the piano to maintain sustained notes and chords, but also the interplay between the pianists, lines and motifs bouncing between them, become active participants in an intimate music of undulant ambiguity, dream, and darkness.

‘In Full Flower’, the first of the Two Pictures by Bartók, is often taken as his most Debussian composition thanks to his exploration of new scales and harmonic worlds. However, in bringing out its luxuriant and blossoming Hungarian aspects, Zoltán Kocsis emphasises rather its fully Bartókian character, which Bavouzet has conveyed to wide critical praise. The two ‘pictures’ here provide a route from Debussy’s world of erotic reverie to Stravinsky’s of ancient ritual. The thundering and the bells of the two pianos in full and accurate fury make this version of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps hardly less forceful in the hands of these two dazzling and virtuosic pianists.

Reviews

20th June 2015

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and François-Frédéric Guy get every subtle detail in place.

August 2015

Fabulous playing from a pair of completely on-form pianists, which lends The Rite of Spring’s rhythmic themes a quite thrilling intensity.

7th June 2015

The programme works brilliantly, allowing us to hear the music as the composers did when they worked on these masterpieces and, in the case of the Rite, in the form in which it was most often played in the years after the premiere. Any losses in orchestral palette are compensated for by the clarity and wide range of colours at the pianists’ disposal.

14th June 2015

Bavouzet and his well-matched partner, François-Fréderic Guy, play with nimble grace, capturing the works wit and mystery. This gripping album is dedicated to Pierre Boulez, guru and enabler, for his 90th birthday.

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