- Artist:
- Raphaël Feuillâtre
Visages Baroques
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Release date: 31 March 2023
Article Number: 501381001
The critics are highly enthusiastic about the young, successful guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre. "One of the most exciting concert guitarists of his generation," is how Guitar Salon International judges him, while Classical Guitar calls him "a fantastically versatile and sensitive performer." Feuillâtre celebrated his international breakthrough in 2018 as winner of the prestigious international competition of the "Guitar Foundation of America". With his debut on Deutsche Grammophon, he aims to share his love of Baroque music. The guitarist has recorded works by J.S Bach and his French contemporaries Forqueray, Rameau, Royer and Duphly. Once mostly written for harpsichord solo, they have been translated here into the colorful sound world of the guitar. The album's title, Visages baroques (Faces of the Baroque), "refers to the very different qualities that each work acquires through its arrangement, but it also refers to the many facets of the guitar that are revealed here through the choice of music," Feuillâtre says. Two great works by Bach are featured: Concerto in D Major BWV 972, itself a transcription for harpsichord of a violin concerto by Vivaldi, and Partita No. 1 BWV 825, along with six French pieces. This music is framed by two other short pieces by Bach, the Prelude in C major and the Gavotte en rondeau from his Partita for solo violin in E major. Not to be underestimated, the entire repertoire is expanded by the transcriptions for guitar, some previously unpublished.
Tracklist
Johann Sebastian Bach
I.Prélude (Version for Guitar)
From Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer / Arr. Raphaël Feuillâtre
L’aimable (Arr. Feuillâtre for Guitar)
From Pièces de clavecin
Johann Sebastian Bach / Antonio Vivaldi / Arr. Judicaël Perroy
Concerto in D Major, BWV 972 (Arr. Perroy for Guitar)
I. Allegro
II. Larghetto
III. Allegro
Jean-Philippe Rameau / Arr. Michel Gizard
L'entretien des muses (Arr. Gizard for Guitar)
From Suite in D Major, RCT 3
Jean-Philippe Rameau / Arr. Michel Gizard
Les cyclopes (Arr. Gizard for Guitar)
From Suite in D Major, RCT 3
Johann Sebastian Bach / Arr. Gerhard Reichenbach
Partita in B Flat Major, BWV 825 (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Menuett I
VI. Menuett II
VII. Gigue
Antoine Forqueray / Arr. Antoine Fougeray
La Bellmont (Arr. Fougeray for Guitar)
From Suite No. 1 in D Minor
Jaques Duphly / Arr. Antoine Fougeray
La Forqueray (Arr. Fougeray for Guitar)
From Pièces de clavecin, Livre 3
Jaques Duphly / Arr. Antoine Fougeray
Médée (Arr. Fougeray for Guitar)
From Pièces de clavecin, Livre 3
Johann Sebastian Bach
III. Gavotte en rondeau (Version for Guitar)
From Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
