Musique de chambre pour piano et cordes

Description

This recording offers the world premiere recording of a work that has remained unpublished until now, but of which a copy with autograph corrections, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, had already attracted the attention of Joël-Marie Fauquet, the French specialist on the composer. It is the Grand Quintette in A flat for Piano, 2 Violins, Viola and Cello, dedicated to Ernest Lubeck. "Edouard Lalo, an eminent representative of French Romantic music, is very famous today. Both the general public and connoisseurs know his Symphonie Espagnole, premiered by the violinist Pablo de Sarasate, as well as his ballet Namouna or his cello concerto. And if his string quartet is less often performed, his trios and sonatas are regularly given in concert. It is toward this aspect of the celebrated composer that this recording turns, centered on a major work by the composer. It seemed to me moving and essential to hold a work that may never have been played, in any case not in the 20th or 21st century, and urgent to edit it, work on it, and record it." Dorian Lamotte