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This collection of French choral pieces may be designated an amûse-bouche, or chef's-choice hors d'oeuvre, but it makes a superb if light meal in itself, prepared by the English ensemble I Fagiolini ("The Little Beans"). You might be suspicious on grounds of previous early music specialists who have functioned well in only the most severe sort of 20th century music, but dig in! The centerpiece here is a world recorded premiere from the always delicious Jean Françaix (1912-1997), Ode à la Gastronomie. This sets (and often comically distorts and parodies) passages from an early (1825) classic of food writing, Brillat-Savarin's La physiologie du goût. Including a fart joke later on, the work begins with the words "Adam, and you dear Eve, who led us to perdition for an apple, what would you have done for a turkey?" Françaix's platter pokes fun not only at French attitudes toward food but even a bit toward his own neoclassic style itself. The rest of the music is sensuous rather than funny, with choral songs by Poulenc, Milhaud, and Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (Le Cantique des Cantiques, or Song of Songs, sorely underrated), interspersed with Satie Gnossiènnes. For the dessert course there's an original work: a choral arrangement by Roderick Williams of the slow movement from Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. This is given fragments of text by Rimbaud and Baudelaire; take conductor Robert Hollingworth's advice and don't worry too much about the words (which aren't included along with the rest of the texts in the CD booklet), and you'll drift away into ecstasy by the end. The rather remote church acoustic doesn't suit a program that consists of chamber music par excellence, but in terms of choosing original repertoire and putting it together into a program that sustains a flavor in a satisfying way, this is nonpareil.
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Not Applicable, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Banalités, FP 107 (Francis Poulenc)
Guillaume Apollinaire, Author - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist - Anna Markland, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Ode à la gastronomie (Jean Françaix)
Jean Francaix, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Jean Francaix, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Jean Francaix, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Erik Satie, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anna Markland, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Le Cantique des cantiques (Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur)
Anonymous, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Composer - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Anonymous, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Composer - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Anonymous, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Composer - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Anonymous, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Composer - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Anonymous, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Composer - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Anonymous, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Composer - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Anonymous, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Composer - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Erik Satie, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anna Markland, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Sept Chansons, FP 81 (Francis Poulenc)
Guillaume Apollinaire, Author - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Guillaume Apollinaire, Author - Francis Poulenc, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Erik Satie, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anna Markland, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Deux poèmes (Darius Milhaud)
Darius Milhaud, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist - Saint Léger, Author
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Darius Milhaud, Composer - René Chalupt, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Un soir de Neige, FP 126 (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Author - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83 - Arr. Roderick Williams (Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Adrian Peacock, Producer, Recording Producer - Andrew Mellor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roderick Williams, Arranger, Work Arranger - I Fagiolini, Ensemble, MainArtist - Robert Hollingworth, Musical Director, MainArtist - Anna Markland, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
Album review
This collection of French choral pieces may be designated an amûse-bouche, or chef's-choice hors d'oeuvre, but it makes a superb if light meal in itself, prepared by the English ensemble I Fagiolini ("The Little Beans"). You might be suspicious on grounds of previous early music specialists who have functioned well in only the most severe sort of 20th century music, but dig in! The centerpiece here is a world recorded premiere from the always delicious Jean Françaix (1912-1997), Ode à la Gastronomie. This sets (and often comically distorts and parodies) passages from an early (1825) classic of food writing, Brillat-Savarin's La physiologie du goût. Including a fart joke later on, the work begins with the words "Adam, and you dear Eve, who led us to perdition for an apple, what would you have done for a turkey?" Françaix's platter pokes fun not only at French attitudes toward food but even a bit toward his own neoclassic style itself. The rest of the music is sensuous rather than funny, with choral songs by Poulenc, Milhaud, and Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (Le Cantique des Cantiques, or Song of Songs, sorely underrated), interspersed with Satie Gnossiènnes. For the dessert course there's an original work: a choral arrangement by Roderick Williams of the slow movement from Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. This is given fragments of text by Rimbaud and Baudelaire; take conductor Robert Hollingworth's advice and don't worry too much about the words (which aren't included along with the rest of the texts in the CD booklet), and you'll drift away into ecstasy by the end. The rather remote church acoustic doesn't suit a program that consists of chamber music par excellence, but in terms of choosing original repertoire and putting it together into a program that sustains a flavor in a satisfying way, this is nonpareil.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 29 track(s)
- Total length: 01:21:12
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: I Fagiolini Robert Hollingworth
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 2016 Decca Music Group Limited ℗ 2016 I Fagiolini Projects Limited
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