La Tombelle: Musique De Chambre, Chorale et Symphonique (complete operetta)
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FERNAND de la TOMBELLE
La Tombelle: Musique De Chambre, Chorale et Symphonique (complete operetta)
Brussels Philharmonic, Hannes Minnaar (piano) Flemish Radio Choir, Jeff Cohen, Yann Beuron (tenor), Pascal Amoyel, Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Herve
[ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book ]
Release Date: Friday 15 November 2019
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Gifted with a strong temperament and a curious nature, Fernand de La Tombelle is a highly appealing and interesting figure among French Romantic composers. He left a substantial œuvre, protean, stylistically eclectic, even atypical, that deserves reassessment not only for its own merits,but also because it illustrates a certain form of social and artistic activity in France at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This new CD-book in the Palazzetto Bru Zane's 'Portraits' series reveals the multiple facets of a captivating personality, ranging from orchestral music with operatic overtones through introspective chamber works to choral music recalling the Renaissance madrigal. The sublime Fantaisie for piano and orchestra would suffice on its own to demonstrate the quality of
La Tombelle's inspiration. To champion his cause as it deserves, this set calls on no fewer than fourteen soloists, along with orchestra, chorus and conductor.
"If La Tombelle's style is generic, indebted to Massenet and Saint-Saëns especially, with echoes of César Franck and Grieg, his works do have a fastidious, workman-like clarity about them, and the set is as beautifully presented and thoroughly documented as anyone could want." The Guardian
"The music's engaging, the performances decent, and the whole serves as a salutary reminder that you don't have to be a Beethoven to deserve a spot in the sun." The Times
"The set has been recorded with great fidelity and warmth in three different locations, not that one would notice the acoustic differences. I need to reprise how excellent this book is, how effective its presentation, how full its documentation. I can't imagine a fairer or finer case being made for a little-known composer such as La Tombelle." MusicWeb Feb 20
Tracks:
Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre en Fa Mineur
Impressions matinales
Livre d'images
Suite pour trois violoncelles
(with Adrien Bellom, Hermine Horiot, François Salque)
Quatuor avec piano
Le furet
Au fil d'eau
Madrigal spirituel
La voix de l'orgue
Pie Jesu
Le livre de la vie
À la mère de l'enfant mort
Dans l'alcôve sombre
Le secret des vagues
Pages d'amour
