THE FIVE SONATAS WITH PIANO
Émile Naoumoff (piano), Régis Pasquier (violin), Roland Pidoux (cello), Michel Moraguès (flute), Eli Eban (clarinet), François Meyer (oboe)
4 ETOILES MONDE DE LA MUSIQUE
4 DIAPASONS
‘It was an excellent idea to bring together Francis Poulenc’s five sonatas. Those that the composer wrote for winds and piano are better known, whereas the sonatas for violin and piano and for cello and piano are too often overlooked. Thanks to the spirit of Régis Pasquier, we better realise the tragic feeling that prevails in the Violin Sonata, written in memory of Federico García Lorca. In Roland Pidoux, the Cello Sonata finds the ideal interpreter, thanks to the charm and opulence of his sonority. As concerns the Clarinet, Flute and Oboe Sonatas, they are also magnificently served by Eli Eban, Michel Moraguès and François Meyer. At the piano, Émile Naoumoff, whose intelligence and profound musicality are well known—those of a pianist who is also a composer—, gives all five musicians the expected response, modelled on the personality of each one. That is called, at the highest level, chamber music. Jean Roy, LE MONDE DE LA MUSIQUE
Sonate pour clarinette et piano FP 184 “à la mémoire d’Arthur Honegger”
Sonate pour flûte et piano FP 164 “à la mémoire de Madame Sprague-Coolidge”
Sonate pour violon et piano FP 119 “à la mémoire de Federico Garcia Lorca”
Sonate pour violoncelle et piano FP 143
Sonate pour hautbois et piano FP 185 “à la mémoire de Serge Prokofiev”
