Album duration : 23:32
Reference : PMA0059
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Guy Casadesus remembers having heard his father say that he had composed this work during the period when he was accompanying silent films. Dreams of countries he has not yet seen but which he perhaps hopes to discover later on, once the war is over... Ten pieces, ten countries evoked.
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Musicians
Jean-François Bouvery piano |
Composers
Robert Casadesus ( 1899-1972 ) |
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Sibérie |
Duration : 2:48
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0336
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Slow, strange, visionary, appealing. |
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Les Flandres |
Duration : 3:51
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0337
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Festive, memories of the carillons of belfries interrupted by a softly meditative moment before the return of the carillons, which fade out reluctantly. |
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France |
Duration : 2:18
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0338
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Homage to the masters of the 18 th century: an elegant sarabande, mysterious, distinguished, dreamy, completely tinged with the poetry 'of the time of our kings'. |
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Espagne |
Duration : 1:40
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0339
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Nervous, well arched like a dance in rough, colourful rhythms with a mocking wink as a finale. |
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Italie |
Duration : 1:57
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0342
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Tarentelle of stunning virtuosity, nimble and mischievous. |
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Arabie |
Duration : 2:41
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0340
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Time seems to stand still in an impenetrable Orient, 'staging' of low and high notes. |
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Chine |
Duration : 1:22
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0341
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Reign of the pentatonic, the whole-tone scale, rivh resonances evoking the timbre of gongs. |
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Japon |
Duration : 1:36
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0343
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All in martelé chords; the pride of the samurai as well as the gentleness and grace of the geisha... |
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Brésil |
Duration : 2:56
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0344
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Exploits the gently-rocking double - dotted quaver rhythm over which the melody calmly unfolds. |
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Etats-Unis |
Duration : 2:23
Opus: 1
Composers Robert Casadesus
Reference : PMA0059T0345
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Facetious, gangling, in a very ' this- was- the- silent-movie-era' style. |
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