Le Printemps dans l'âme Duo Anthemis

• Joseph Horovitz (1926 - 2022): Sonatine:
• 1 Horovitz: Sonatine: I. Allegro calmato 05:24
• 2 Horovitz: Sonatine: II. Quasi andante 03:56
• 3 Horovitz: Sonatine: III. Con brio 04:00
• Jean Françaix (1912 - 1997): Tema con variazioni:
• 4 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: I. Tema, Largo-Moderato 00:42
• 5 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: II. Larghetto misterioso 01:02
• 6 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: III. Presto 00:55
• 7 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: IV. Moderato 00:50
• 8 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: V. Adagio 01:26
• 9 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: VI. Tempo di valzer 01:21
• 10 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: VII. Cadence 01:21
• 11 Françaix: Tema con variazioni: VIII. Prestissimo 00:52
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): Première Rhapsodie:
• 12 Debussy: Première Rhapsodie 08:30
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990): Sonate:
• 13 Bernstein: Sonate: I. Grazioso 03:46
• 14 Bernstein: Sonate: II. Andantino 06:30
• Olivier Dartevelle (b. 1957): Sonatine:
• 15 Dartevelle: Sonatine: I. Alerte 03:50
• 16 Dartevelle: Sonatine: II. Tranquille… 04:46
• 17 Dartevelle: Sonatine: III. Décidé ! 03:11
• Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974): Scaramouche:
• 18 Milhaud: Scaramouche: I. Allegro : Vif et joyeux 03:03
• 19 Milhaud: Scaramouche: II. Modéré. Sur un thème expressif et mélancolique 04:16
• 20 Milhaud: Scaramouche: III. Brazileira. Samba endiablée sud-américaine 02:42
• Total Runtime 01:02:23

Info for Le Printemps dans l'âme

SPRING in the SOUL reflects the spirit of a beautiful artistic and human encounter. This exciting programme mirrors our duo : voluble, emphatic and sometimes festive, it is also made up of moments of thinking, dreaming, like ‘breaks’ into a whirl of playful virtuosity.

As in Horovitz’s orBernstein’s sonatinas, jazz as an inspiration seems to implicitly pervade almost all of theworks from this programme. The listener will be offered a musical change of scene thanks to its peculiar harmonies, sharp rhythms, the humorous touch that sometimes sticks out as in silent film music in the piece by Dartevelle, but also its languid ballads worthy of a piano bar atmosphere.For it is quite often a needfor exoticism, or the longing for a country they may have crossed, that a composer aims to evoke when getting inspiration from the musical folklore of acontinent. It is indeed thec ase with Darius Milhaud, a Brazil lover, whose Scaramouche piece turns the traditional figure of this characterfrom the Commedia dell’Arte into both a traveller and a pilgrim, touched in his buffoon soul by the Brazilian saudade and the Samba from the Rio Carnival…

The change ofmusical and sound scene also happens with Debussy’s famous First Rhapsody. Its unrestricted and narrative structure reminds usof the odes by the poets from Ancient Greece and takes the listener by the ear to tell them a story, full of aquatic and iridescent tones.

Finally, this change of scene also occurs with the world of childhood, a playground formischief, as in the piece by Jean Françaix, whose alibi, an unforgettable gameof hide-and-seek between a grandfather and his grandson, is an excuse forendless acrobatic and contrasted variations…

Duo Anthemis:
Florent Charpentier, clarinette
Juliette Boubel, piano

Duo Anthemis
The Anthemis Duowas born in 2017, when its members, both from Nancy, felt the urge to play chamber music. One is a concert artist and a teacher at the Conservatoire of music in Metz, the other is the solo clarinet performer at the Metz Grand-Est National Orchestra. Both lost souls saw themselves in each other, meeting by chance behind the scenes and anterooms of the beautiful concert halls they have the joy to perform in. For six years now, they have been tirelessly exploring the most beautiful pieces of French, English, American and Germanic chamber music to generously and directly gift them to you, on stage or through this disc, like a beautiful posy of freshly-picked wild flowers…

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