Guillaume Lekeu : Orchestral Works vol.1 - Pierre Bartholomée, conductor
Guillaume Lekeu : Orchestral Works vol.1 - Pierre Bartholomée, conductor
Unknown Rip | APE tracks (No Cue+No Log) | Complete Scans | 64 min. | 212 MB
19th Century Music | Orchestral Music | Ricercar RIS 084067 | 1992
It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 1 zip files with the 6 tracks on ape files
(compressed from the original wave files), the 12 page booklet (in English, French and German), plus front and back cover.
Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894)
Orchestral Works vol. 1 [Centennial Edition, 1992, volume 7 of 9]
http://www.amazon.com/Oeuvres-...&qid=1283375541&sr=8-1
Track List:
[1] Barberine (Prélude au 2e Acte) [1889] (8'38")
[2] Première Etude Symphonique : Chant de triomphale délivrance (9'22")
[3] Seconde Etude Symphonique: 1re Partie: Hamlet (13'24")
[4] Seconde Etude Symphonique: 2e Partie: Ophélie [1890] (6'56")
[5] Fantaisie sur deux Airs Populaires Angevins (13'00")
[6] Adagio pour Quatour d'Orchestre [1891] (12'28"]
total duration: 63' 46"
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege et de la Communauté Française - Pierre Bartholomée, conductor
Recorded: Liège, Conservatoire Royal de Musique, june 1990 except #6 (june 1987)
Jean-Joseph-Nicolas-Guillaume Lekeu, belgian composer (Heusy, Verviers, january 20, 1870 - Angers, january 21, 1894).
In early age he studied with the village organist, then in Poitiers (where his family lived from 1879). He started to compose music in 1885. From 1888, when he lived in Paris with his family, he studied with G.Vallin and, in 1889, with the great composer and organist César Franck. At the death of Franck, in 1890, he started to take lessons from Vincent D'Indy. He won the second prize of the Prix the Rome in 1891 with the Andromède cantata. He died at the age of 24, caused by typhus.
Lekeu is today a neglected composer, and only the Violin sonata in G major has a fairly good reputation in concert and on disc, but some orchestral works, like Hamlet (recorded on this disc) and Ophélie (two versions: the first was recorded here, while the second version is recorded on Orchestral Works vol.2, the vol.8 of the Centennial Edition) and the Fantaisie sur deux Air Populaires Angevins (piece influenced by D'Indy, one of Lekeu's teacher), could be heard with interest.
For my musicologist fellows, musicians or music lovers, the full orchestral score of Fantaisie sur deux Air Populaires Angevins is available here on free pdf:
http://imslp.info/files/imglnk...x_airs_populaires_angevins.pdf
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