Ernest Chausson: Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet; Piano Quartet, Op.30 (1997)
Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin, Toby Hoffman, Gary Hoffman, Chilingirian Quartet
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 171 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66907 | Time: 01:14:21
Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin, Toby Hoffman, Gary Hoffman, Chilingirian Quartet
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 171 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66907 | Time: 01:14:21
It is easy to understand why Chausson’s Concert is not as regular a feature of concert programmes as, say, Franck’s Violin Sonata. After all, a work for piano, violin and string quartet must surely have an instrumental imbalance. How can Chausson occupy all three violin parts for nearly forty minutes? In short, he does not. Nor does he try. Much of the Concert is essentially a sonata for violin and piano with an accompanying, though essential, string quartet. Chausson’s refusal to involve the quartet at every juncture merely to justify the players’ fees results in a signally well-balanced late Romantic work. When the quartet does feature on an equal footing, the effect is all the more telling. The fingerprints of Franck can be detected readily throughout the Concert, but in this and the Piano Quartet, Chausson’s individuality overcomes his teacher’s influence. Indeed, there are premonitions of Debussy, Ravel and even Shostakovich. Tangibly the product of live performances, these accounts traverse the gamut of emotions, bristling with energy, lyricism and conviction, and ensuring that this disc will never gather much dust.Review by Christopher Dingle, BBC Music Magazine
Although Chausson has been critically maligned, his glory in both Opp. 21 and 30 shines through every possible defect. True, his idiosyncrasy is nearly drowned by the influence of his teacher Cesar Franck and particularly of Franck’s Piano Quintet, and his unusual combination of instruments in his Op. 21 Concert creates problems (the violins can get in each other’s way). Yet given an ideally balanced and executed performance it is difficult not to succumb to what has been aptly called Chausson’s “refined and voluptuous melancholy”, to a richness and complexity that can engulf the senses. But the question of texture remains tricky and I am not convinced that it has been adequately solved in this new Dutch-based recording. This is, after all, a concerto and to hear the excellent Pascal Devoyon reduced to a background level, to shrinking violet proportions when he should be heard blazing the composer’s passion and intricacy to the heavens, is unfortunate. The situation improves when the music is more despairing than heated, in the Grave with its heavy fall of raindrops or tears and the haunting descent at 4'27'' where the music sinks down in a seemingly endless autumn spiral. But in the finale the sound once more lacks a proper focus and definition. Philippe Graffin suffers less than Devoyon and he is notably refined in the moins forte and moins forte hairpin decrescendo close to the very Faurean Sicilienne, though even here he is surely too recessed.
The same failings apply to the Piano Quartet, music where Chausson steps into the light, though not forgetting his more customary and darker eloquence. The carillon, un peu plus vite, which closes the finale comes closer to the necessary sense of homecoming but, again, the overall effect is insufficiently exultant. So although this record has rarity value I would suggest that those primarily interested in the Concert turn to Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Joshua Bell with their urgently propulsive finale on Decca; sadly the admirably clear and vigorous Jean-Philippe Collard and Augustin Dumay on EMI (3/87) is not currently available. Specialists will, of course, not forget Cortot’s and Thibaud’s incomparably fervent 1931 account, most suitably coupled with the Franck Quintet on Biddulph.'Review by Bryce Morrison, Gramophone
Pascal Devoyon, piano (1-8)
Philippe Graffin, violin (1-8)
Toby Hoffman, viola (5-8)
Gary Hoffman, cello (5-8)
Chilingirian Quartet (1-4):
Levon Chilingirian, violin
Charles Sewart, violin
Asdis Valdimarsdottir, viola
Philip De Groote, cello
Tracklist:
Concert in D major for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, Op.21
01. I. Décidé (14:44)
02. II. Sicilienne (04:20)
03. III. Grave (09:11)
04. IV. Finale (10:57)
Piano Quartet in A major, Op.30
05. I. Animé (11:30)
06. II. Très calme (08:39)
07. III. Simple et sans hâte (03:45)
08. IV. Animé (11:13)
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