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Marcelle de Manziarly: Chamber Works

Cecilia Zilliacus (soloist), Kati Raitinen (soloist), Bengt Forsberg (soloist), Peter Friis Johansson (soloist)

Marcelle de Manziarly: Chamber Works

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Cecilia Zilliacus, Kati Raitinen and Bengt Forsberg, who often record together in varying combinations, play with their accustomed unanimity; they’re tonally rich and rhythmically secure, and...

Marcelle de Manziarly: Chamber Works

Cecilia Zilliacus (soloist), Kati Raitinen (soloist), Bengt Forsberg (soloist), Peter Friis Johansson (soloist)

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Cecilia Zilliacus, Kati Raitinen and Bengt Forsberg, who often record together in varying combinations, play with their accustomed unanimity; they’re tonally rich and rhythmically secure, and...

About

A significant number of women were active as professional composers in inter-war France. Although they worked alongside their male peers and were accepted by concert organisers, performers, critics and audiences alike, they are little known today, and their works are rarely performed in concert or recorded. Composer, conductor, pianist and teacher Marcelle de Manziarly is one of these forgotten musicians. After studying composition with Nadia Boulanger, who became her mentor, and conducting with Felix Weingartner, she pursued a career on both sides of the Atlantic, in France and the United States. Her large and varied œuvre spans virtually the whole of the 20th century and reflects her constant stylistic evolution and transformation. This recording, which contains a number of discographic premières, brings together works composed at different points in her long career, from the Violin Sonata, an early work that already shows exceptional maturity with its harmonies typical of French music at the turn of the century, to the Trilogue with its dissonances and minimalism. Performed by first-rate chamber musicians, these works demonstrate that it is high time to rediscover Marcelle de Manziarly.

Contents and tracklist

I. Grave, rude, sans lenteur
Track length8:41
II. Rapide
Track length3:07
III. Sans trop de lenteur
Track length5:39
IV. Rude, assez vite
Track length5:44
Violin Sonata: I. Modéré, très simple et expressif
Track length6:32
Violin Sonata: II. Lent et grave
Track length5:22
Violin Sonata: III. Tumultueux
Track length10:35
Prologue
Track length4:15
Premonition
Track length2:41
Epilogue
Track length2:58

Awards and reviews

  • International Classical Music Awards
    2025
    Nominated - Premiere Recordings

June 2024

Cecilia Zilliacus, Kati Raitinen and Bengt Forsberg, who often record together in varying combinations, play with their accustomed unanimity; they’re tonally rich and rhythmically secure, and their balances are exemplary...A revelatory release.

June 2024

As so often Bengt Forsberg anchors things admirably, and violinist Cecilia Zillacus is both resilient and sensitive as is cellist Kati Raitinen whom Peter Friis Johansson accompanies in the Dialogue. The recording…is excellent and serves Manziarly well.
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