Guillaume Lekeu : Orchestral Works vol.2 - Pierre Bartholomée, conductor
Guillaume Lekeu : Orchestral Works vol.2 - Pierre Bartholomée, conductor
Unknown Rip | APE tracks (No Cue+No Log) | Complete Scans | 52 min. | 196 MB
19th Century Music | Orchestral Music | Choral Music | Language: French |
Ricercar RIS 138128 | 1995
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 20 page booklet (in English, French and German), plus front and back cover.
Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894)
Orchestral Works vol. 2 [Centennial Edition, 1995, volume 8 of 9]
http://www.amazon.com/Orchestr...&qid=1283349196&sr=8-1
Track List:
[1] Seconde Etude Symphonique: Deuxième partie, Ophélie (2e version) [1890] (9'32")
[2] Epithalame, pour quintette à cordes (quatour d'orchestre), trois trombones et orgue [1891] (10'56")
[3] Larghetto, pour violoncelle solo, quintette à cordes (quatour d'orchestre), deux cors et un basson [1892] (9'30")
[4] Introduction et Adagio, pour tuba et orchestre d'harmonie (9'28")
[5] Fantaisie contrapuntique sur un cramignon liégeois, pour hautbois, clarinette, cor, basson et cordes [1890] (7'00")
[6] Chant lyrique, pour choeur et orchestre ** [1891] (6'15"]
** words by Alphonse de Lamartine, Premières Méditations - XXVII
total duration: 52' 28"
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege - Pierre Bartholomée, conductor
Grand Orchestre d'Harmonie des Guides - Norbert Nozy, direction [4]
Choeur Symphonique de Namur - Denis Menier, choir master
Bernard Foccroulle, organ [2]
Marie Hallynck, cello [3]
Carl Delbart, tuba [4]
Recorded: Liège, Conservatoire Royal de Musique, february 1994; Leuven, Lemmens Institut, june 1994 [Epithalame]
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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 vol.7 of Centennial Edition) and Ophélie (two versions: the first was recorded on vol.7, while the second version is recorded on this current disc, vol.8) and the Fantaisie sur deux Air Populaires Angevins (on vol.7; this piece influenced by D'Indy), could be heard with interest. I hope you like it.
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