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L'Heure Bleue

Boulanger, Debussy, Finzi, Poulenc, Ravel, Waksman

Quatuor Zahir

L'Heure Bleue

L'Heure Bleue

Boulanger, Debussy, Finzi, Poulenc, Ravel, Waksman

Quatuor Zahir

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The four saxophonists of the Quatuor Zahir set the scene for this second recording, which brings together the emblematic composers of twentieth-century France and their masterpieces. Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte and Trois Chansons, Nadia Boulanger's Trois Pièces, Poulenc's Chemins de l'amour, Charles d'Orléans's Trois Chansons, Debussy's Petite Suite and Rêverie all take on the warm timbres of their instruments in these arrangements for saxophone quartet, revealing new colours. They are echoed by two premières, Graciane Finzi's Petite Suite and Fabien Waksman's Les Lunes galantes, conceived as a fifth movement to Debussy's Petite Suite.

Here the Quatuor Zahir is reaffirming its commitment to creation, its virtuosity too, but above all the singularity of its unique musical identity.

  • Release date: 29th Mar 2024
  • Label: Aparté
  • Catalogue number: AP346
  • Length: 65 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Debussy: Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans, L. 99 (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Florent Louman)
Work length5:32
  • Quatuor Zahir
I. Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !
Track length2:04
II. Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin
Track length1:38
III. Yver, vous n'estes qu'un vilain
Track length1:50
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19 (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Guillaume Berceau)
Work length5:12
  • Quatuor Zahir
Debussy: Petite Suite, L. 71a (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Alexandros Markeas)
Work length7:18
  • Quatuor Zahir
I. En bateau
Track length3:59
II. Cortège
Track length3:19
Waksman: Les Lunes galantes
Work length3:55
  • Quatuor Zahir
Debussy: Petite Suite, L. 71a (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Alexandros Markeas)
Work length6:22
  • Quatuor Zahir
III. Menuet
Track length3:10
IV. Ballet
Track length3:12
Ravel: À la manière de Borodine, M. 63 / 1 (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Guillaume Berceau)
Work length1:51
  • Quatuor Zahir
Finzi, Graciane: Une Petite Suite
Work length10:10
  • Quatuor Zahir
I. Stabilité mouvante
Track length1:58
II. Et passe le temps…
Track length3:01
III. Hiver
Track length1:55
IV. Chiacchierata
Track length3:16
Debussy: Rêverie
Work length4:22
  • Quatuor Zahir
Boulanger, N: Trois Pièces (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Guillaume Berceau)
Work length7:39
  • Quatuor Zahir
I. Modéré
Track length3:04
II. Sans vitesse et à l'aise
Track length1:32
III. Vite et nerveusement rythmé
Track length3:03
Debussy: Clair de lune, L. 82a (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Guillaume Berceau)
Work length4:16
  • Quatuor Zahir
Ravel: Trois Chansons, M. 69 (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Guillaume Berceau)
Work length5:53
  • Quatuor Zahir
I. Nicolette
Track length1:42
II. Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis
Track length2:37
III. Ronde
Track length1:34
Poulenc: Les Chemins de l'amour, FP 106-Ia (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet by Guillaume Berceau)
Work length3:21
  • Quatuor Zahir

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