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replayCantate, œuvres symphoniques et musique de chambre
Each of the volumes in the ‘Portraits’ series is devoted to a French composer who has been unjustly neglected, and takes a general look at that composer’s output through performances by many talented artists. The texts (French/English) are completed by varied and hitherto unpublished iconography.
Concluding the thematic cycle devoted to Théodore Gouvy in 2013 by the Palazzetto Bru Zane, this portrait of Théodore Gouvy aims to supplement the already available discography – the symphonies, several cantatas, including Œdipe and Électre, the Requiem, the Stabat Mater etc. – with world première recordings of other major works.
The String Quartet in A minor shows Gouvy at the height of his capacities as a chamber composer, while his Sérénades for piano pay an elegant tribute to Mendelssohn. The three overtures, Jeanne d’Arc, Le Giaour and Le Festival , show him as a composer of narrative, descriptive music; the Sinfonietta exemplifies his veneration for the absolute music inherited from Viennese Classicism. Made famous at the time by the singer Pauline Viardot, La Religieuse exemplifies the dramatic cantata; the Fantaisie pastorale for violin and orchestra is Gouvy’s only concertante work.
