Eric Le Sage - Chausson:Concert / Vierne:Piano Quintet - Import CD

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Eric Le Sage

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Includes Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet in D major, Op. 21 [Performed by] Eric Le Sage (Piano) Daishin Kashimoto (Violin) Schumann Quartet Eric Schumann (1st violin), Ken Schumann (2nd violin), Fite Hartenstein (viola), Mark Schumann (cello) Vierne: Piano Quintet Op. 42 [Performed by] Eric Le Sage (Piano) Daishin Kashimoto (Violin) Natalia Romeyko (Violin) Yuri Zislin (viola) Claudio Borquez, cello [Recording] May 2024, Concert Hall "Grand Manège", Namur, Belgium [Producer] Julien Podolak [Engineer] Manuel Moheno Daishin Kashimoto and Eric Le Sage as exceptional chamber music partners are known for their chamber music performances around the world, especially in Japan at the Le Pont International Music Festival Ako and Himeji held every year in early autumn, and in 2023-24 at the "Schumann & Brahms In 2023-24, the "Schumann & Brahms Violin Sonata Cycle" will also be realized. In terms of recordings, the partnership is growing stronger and stronger, with Schumann's Piano Quintet in 2009, Fauré's two violin sonatas in 2012, and chamber music albums by Korngold and Berg in 2018 and Nino Rota in 2020. This album, recorded just this May in Belgium, is Daishin Kashimoto's first recording for Sony Classical in 17 years, since the release of the Brahms Violin Concerto in 2007, and features two of the great chamber music works produced in France in the late 19th/early 20th century, Chausson and Vierne. The recording features two of the greatest French chamber music works of the late 19th/early 20th century, Chausson and Vierne. The quartet performs with the Schumann Quartet in Chausson, and with Natalia Romeyko, Yuri Gislin, and Claudio Borquez in Vierne. Chausson's "Concerte," premiered in Brussels in 1892, was described as "one of the most important and most interesting of the various musical compositions of recent years," with its unconventional arrangement of solo violin and piano, and the addition of a string quartet. Chausson was influenced by the German Romanticism that prevailed in France at the time, and he was particularly interested in his own path beyond his devotion to Wagner, taking French classical composers such as Couperin and Rameau as models. The entire work is performed on three tones. The three notes (D, A, and E) that run through the entire piece like a motif were influenced by the cyclic form that Franck was known for. The Piano Quintet by Vierne, who was born blind but was known as a virtuoso organist, is the successor to Chausson's "Concert" and an undiscovered masterpiece in the history of French chamber music, The composer himself said, "I am trying to create a huge quintet, a votive offering, in which I will pour the inspiration born of the tragic fate of my child. I shall accomplish this task with as much intensity and tremendous energy as my grief is terrifying, and I shall create something powerful, majestic, and mighty. As he said, "I am going to do this work with as much intensity and tremendous energy as my grief is terrible, and make something strong, majestic, and powerful, something that will evoke in the depths of every father's heart the deepest love for his dead son. Daishin Kashimoto will perform Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" with the Berlin Baroque Soloists in Japan in late September (two concerts in Yokohama and Toyota), and he will also perform chamber music with Le Sage at the Le Pont International Music Festival, focusing on Schubert's works. In December, Rafaou Brehac is scheduled to give a seven-stop nationwide solo recital tour. Le Sage will also perform a full Faure program featuring two piano quintets with the up-and-coming Japanese player in Takasaki and Kyoto. The Chausson and Vierne album is the most recent incarnation of these two musicians at the forefront of chamber music. (Sony Music)