Le temps des lilas Pierre Fouchenneret, I Giardini, Pauline Buet, David Violi, Shuichi Okada, Camille Fonteneau, Violaine Despeyroux

• Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899): Concert in D Major for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 21:
• 1 Chausson: Concert in D Major for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 21: I. Décidé 14:35
• 2 Chausson: Concert in D Major for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 21: II. Sicilienne 04:36
• 3 Chausson: Concert in D Major for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 21: III. Grave 10:23
• 4 Chausson: Concert in D Major for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 21: IV. Final 11:19
• Poème for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 25:
• 5 Chausson: Poème for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 25 16:32
• Les temps des lilas:
• 6 Chausson: Les temps des lilas 04:48
• Barbara: Les temps du lilas:
• 7 Barbara: Les temps du lilas (Arr. Emmanuel Touchard) 03:00
• Total Runtime 01:05:13

Info for Le temps des lilas

Le temps des lilas is an ode to Romanticism, a love song and a nostalgic reflection on the bittersweet beauty of lost happiness. Dedicated to the music of Ernest Chausson, this album oscillates between passion and melancholy, wonder and nostalgia. The Concert Op. 21, a masterly work on the borderline between chamber music and orchestra, is carried by Pierre Fouchenneret’s magnetic violin and David Violi’s colorful piano. I Giardini also deliver a previously unpublished version of Poème Op. 25, reworked for violin, piano and string quartet. The album closes with Pauline Buet’s equally sensitive retelling of Chausson and Barbara’s ‘Temps des/du lilas’, using cello in the former and singing voice in the latter. Barbara’s song and Chausson’s melody stand as a simple, timeless tribute to the magic of past moments and the fragility of human existence.

Pierre Fouchenneret, violin
I Giardini
Pauline Buet, cello
David Violi, piano
Shuichi Okada, violin
Camille Fonteneau, violin
Violaine Despeyroux, viola

Pierre Fourchenneret
one of the associated artists of the Foundation Singer Polignac, has enjoyed a strong recognition right back to his tender years. Thus as soon as his twelfth year he was granted the first prize for violin at the CNR - National Regional Conservatory - in Nice; then at sixteen the first prize for violin and chamber music at the CNSM - National Superior Conservatory of Music - in Paris; and he was a prize winner for Nataxis, and for the Grand Prize of the International Competition of chamber music in Bordeaux.Enriched by the exceptional teachings he benefited from Alain Babouchian at the CNR in Nice, Olivier Chartier at the CNSM in Paris and Devy Erlih, Pierre Fourchenneret has wished to transmit as well and has become a teacher in the Superior Pole of Bordeaux.

This recognition also gives him the pleasure to collaborate with the most gifted musicians of his generation and to give performances on the greatest national and international stages. This is how in 2013 he founds the quartet Strada with François Salque, Sarah Nemtanu and Lise Berthaud.

His virtuosity, "his intense, precise and colourful playing" (Classica) and his buoyancy are appreciated by French and international orchestras as the ones in Bordeaux Aquitaine, Dijon, the philharmonic in Nice, Brno, the Baltic in St Petersburg. With a passion for chamber music, he is also the violinist of the string trio 71 together with Eric Picard and Nicolas Bone.

In the course of his career as a soloist and as a chamber musician, his first record devoted to Mendelssohn trios comes out in 2007. It will be followed by a series of records, all of them unanimously praised by the critics. Thus he is awarded the Choc Classica for a record devoted to the French composer George Louis Onslow. In 2015 he publishes no less than three opus; the first one is dedicated to the quartet with piano no. 3 opus 3 by Mendelssohn; in the second one "Bohème", he interprets the Bach Chaconne, the Kodaly Duo with François Salque and the second Bartok sonata for violin and piano with Romain Descharmes. Finally for the third one, again with Romain Descharmes he records Beethoven's complete sonatas for violin and piano. Driven by his absolute passion for this composer, he deepens his work and at the beginning of this year 2016 he releases a record of his last two quartets. The year 2016 will be marked by numerous projects among which a record featuring the complete music for violin of Fauré. In 2017 he will start a cycle of the complete Brahms chamber music alongside Eric Lesage.

The work done by Pierre Fourchenneret which we can discover in particular with his different recordings, reflects his perpetual search for an aesthetic that is pure and free of affect, but also his deep love and respect of the text.

Wonderful on stage, Pierre Fourchenneret can also take risks and surprise his audience: "It was so revealing to listen to the quality of the silence of the public absolutely seized […] Overwhelming is the word that was on the music lovers' lips, in a state of shock"; "a large public had come and was conscious of their privilege in attending a rare concert" (Ouest France).

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