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This first recording of chamber music by the composer Lucien Durosoir (1878-1955) is the first in a series intended to revive the works of this composer, who deserves to be better known. After spending the whole of the Great War fighting on the front, Lucien Durosoir retired to his native village in the Landes (south-west France), where he composed works that he never had published. The talented interpreters, Geneviève Laurence, violin, and Lorène de Ratuld, piano, bring out the beauty of these works with intelligence, respecting their intentions and capturing their spirit. We discover music that is strongly personal, expressing lyricism and tenderness, cheerfulness and humour, sensitivity and tragedy.
Lucien Durosoir: Violin Sonata in A minor, "Le Lis"
I. Introduction
II. Le lis
Lucien Durosoir: Oisillon bleu
Oisillon bleu
Lucien Durosoir: Reve
Reve
Lucien Durosoir: Nocturne
Nocturne
Lucien Durosoir: Legende
Legende
Lucien Durosoir: 5 Aquarelles
No. 1. Bretagne
No. 2. Vision
No. 3. Ronde
No. 4. Berceuse
No. 5. Intermede
Lucien Durosoir: Chant elegiaque
Chant elegiaque
Lucien Durosoir: Priere a Marie
Priere a Marie
Lucien Durosoir, en 1950
Lucien Durosoir, en 1950
“The performances are very persuasive. Geneviève Laurenceau, often playing with great delicacy, creates a lovely timbre, subtly coloured, and Lorène De Ratuld is a wholly sympathetic partner...beautifully recorded”