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Fauré & Bonis: Quartets with piano

Giardini Piano Quartet

Fauré & Bonis: Quartets with piano
The Beaux Arts prove that speed is not everything here, combining tempo that allows detail to tell with a delightful sense of interaction...any group championing the music of Mel Bonis has to...

Fauré & Bonis: Quartets with piano

Giardini Piano Quartet

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The Beaux Arts prove that speed is not everything here, combining tempo that allows detail to tell with a delightful sense of interaction...any group championing the music of Mel Bonis has to...

About

The Giardini Piano Quartet was born out of the bringing together of four artists who share great affinities: after more than ten years of musical and human complicity, Caroline Donin and Pauline Buet on the one hand, and Pascal Monlong and David Violi on the other, joined forces to concentrate on a repertoire that had long been close to their hearts. Beyond their love of music and their friendship, they approached this piano quartet repertoire with high standards and enthusiasm.

The Giardinis play the most famous quartets but are also involved in the rediscovery of a little-known repertoire, collaborating with the Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre for French Romantic Music and championing composers less often performed such as Félicien David, Théodore Dubois, Marie Jaëll, Mel Bonis: the latter two doubly overlooked by posterity owing to their being women! Since its creation, the Quartet has already performed in Paris, Berlin, Shanghai, Beijing, Bologna, Rome, Stockholm…

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro molto moderato
Track length10:05
II. Scherzo (Allegro vivo)
Track length5:41
III. Adagio
Track length7:29
IV. Allegro molto
Track length8:09
I. Moderato
Track length7:07
II. Intermezzo (Allegretto tranquillo)
Track length6:23
III. Andante
Track length6:46
IV. Finale (Allegro ma non troppo)
Track length4:53

Awards and reviews

March 2015

The Beaux Arts prove that speed is not everything here, combining tempo that allows detail to tell with a delightful sense of interaction...any group championing the music of Mel Bonis has to be applauded.

March 2015

The playing is fluid and often extremely beautiful, the tone sweet and appealing…The recording is warm and close.
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