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Tres Francaix

Chamber Music of Jean Francaix

Anthony Robb (flute), Sandra Skipper (flute/alto flute), Neyire Ashworth (clarinet/bass clarinet), Alan Andrews (clarinet/bass clarinet/basset horn), Philip Gibbon (bassoon), Damian Brasington (bassoon/contra-bassoon), David Juritz (violin), Martin Outram (viola), Rebecca Knight (cello), Jeremy Polmear...

Francaix's chamber music...is delightfully French, with its wit, lightness of touch, quixotic changing of moods and blending of colours. It is most sympathetically played here, helped by a believable... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015 More…

Release Date: 26th Aug 2014
Catalogue No: CC2029
Label: Oboe Classics
Length: 58 minutes

Françaix: Variations sur un thème plaisant (1976): Tema - Nine variations - Come primo

Work length14:50

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Diana Ambache, Anthony Robb, Sandra Skipper, Jeremy Polmear, Christopher Hooker, Neyire Ashworth, Alan Andrews, Philip Gibbon, Damian Brasington, Susan Dent, Alexia Cammish
Jeremy Polmear and friends

Françaix: Quatuor (1971)

Work length14:01

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Jeremy Polmear, David Juritz, Martin Outram, Rebecca Knight
Jeremy Polmear and friends

I. Allegro vivace

Track length3:03

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II. Andante tranquillo

Track length2:42

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III. Vivo assai

Track length3:07

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IV. Andantino

Track length1:47

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V. Allegro giocoso

Track length3:22

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Françaix: Sixtuor (1992)

Work length17:56

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Anthony Robb, Jeremy Polmear, Neyire Ashworth, Alan Andrews, Philip Gibbon, Susan Dent
Jeremy Polmear and friends

I. Risoluto

Track length2:38

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II. Andante

Track length3:13

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III. Scherzo

Track length4:32

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IV. Andante

Track length4:18

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V. Risoluto

Track length3:15

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Françaix: Elégie (1990): Largo

Work length4:32

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Anthony Robb, Sandra Skipper, Jeremy Polmear, Christopher Hooker, Alan Andrews, Neyire Ashworth, Philip Gibbon, Damian Brasington, Susan Dent, Alexia Cammish
Jeremy Polmear and friends

Excerpt, Françaix: L'heure du berger

Work length7:38

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Anthony Robb, Jeremy Polmear, Neyire Ashworth, Philip Gibbon, Susan Dent, Diana Ambache
Jeremy Polmear and friends

I. Les Vieux Beaux

Track length2:14

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II. Pin-up Girls

Track length2:09

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III. Les petits nerveux

Track length3:15

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"Good humour is indispensable to the well-being of humanity." So wrote Jean Françaix of his Quatuor for cor anglais and strings, and all the music on this CD demonstrates his ability not just to entertain, but to lift the spirits.

Like his models Ravel and Poulenc, Françaix was masterful in his writing for instruments, and his particular delight in writing for winds lasted the sixty years of his compositional life. Wit is ever-present, except in the Elègie, a meditation on what Françaix called the 'catastrophe' of Mozart's early death. In the piano Variations, each of the nine variations illustrates a different aspect of Françaix' style, from American rumbustiousness to beautiful, touching miniatures.

"Jean Françaix's chamber music, whose great charm is difficult to analyse, is delightfully French, with its wit, lightness of touch, quixotic changing of moods, and blending of colours.

"It is most sympathetically played here, helped by a believable balance, with each wind group felicitously blended.

"Altogether a most infectious and enjoyable collection." Ivan March, Gramophone

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January 2015

Francaix's chamber music...is delightfully French, with its wit, lightness of touch, quixotic changing of moods and blending of colours. It is most sympathetically played here, helped by a believable balance, with each wind group felicitously blended...Altogether a most infectious and enjoyable collection.

Tres Francaix

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