Enescu: Impressions d'enfance / Ketler, Bezrodny, Apap, Ensemble Raro

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Label
Solo Musica
Release Date
May 20, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      George Enescu
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Raro
    • PERFORMER
      Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, Diana Ketler, Gilles Apap
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 20, 2022
    • UPC
      4260123643966
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SM396
    • LABEL
      Solo Musica
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

      Performer: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny

    2. II. Scherzo vivace

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

      Performer: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny

    3. III. Andante

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

      Performer: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny

    4. IV. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

      Performer: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny

    5. Aubade in C Major

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    6. Serenade lointaine

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    7. Pièce sur le nom de Fauré

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Diana Ketler

    8. No. 1. Ménétrier

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    9. No. 2. Vieux mendiant

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    10. No. 3. Ruisselet au fond du jardin

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    11. No. 4. L'oiseau au cage et le coucou au mur

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    12. No. 5. Chanson pour bercer

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    13. No. 6. Grillon

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    14. No. 7. Lune a travers les vitres

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    15. No. 8. Vent dans la cheminee

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    16. No. 9. Tempête au dehors, dans la nuit

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro

    17. No. 10. Lever de soleil

      Composer: George Enescu

      Ensemble: Ensemble Raro


Impressions d’enfance, Ensemble Raro’s and Gilles Apap’s new recording, is dedicated to chamber music works of George Enescu. The Piano Quintet in D is one of his earliest compositions. Written in 1896 at the age of fifteen during his studies at the Paris Conservatoire, it is certainly inspired by Brahms’ chamber works. Enescu himself confessed about Brahms’ enormous influence on his development: “the God of my youthful adoration is Brahms and I wrote my early works in the style of the immortal Johannes in an almost flagrant way”. The Quintet was premiered in 1897, in Enescu’s first recital of his own works in Paris at the age of sixteen; Massenet and Cortot were in the audience. The two charming works for Piano and String Trio, Aubade and Serenade Lointaine, illustrate the point that Enescu’s beloved teacher Gabriel Fauré expressed very beautifully: “the greatest technical ability is not worth anything without poetry”. Even in the cleverly constructed short piece Hommage for Piano, which is based on a motive representing the letters of Fauré’s name, the poetic, dreamy quality prevails. Enescu’s late masterpiece Impressions d’enfance for Violin and Piano takes us back to the very first occasion when three year old George heard a street fiddler for the very first time. Impressions is an evocation of a childhood through a sequence of dreams, memories, imperceptible sensations and sounds. It results in one of Enescu’s most glorious climaxes where the old fiddler’s tune merges with cosmic piano harmony and the the noble, healing force of music triumphs over all. In Enescu’s own words: a man always “carries the music in himself. In the loneliness of the mountains and plains, it is his comrade; it calms his fears, it helps him sing his dor, that inexpressible nostalgia that breaks his soul”.