WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1585 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2015 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. LEONARD GARRISON ROGER MCVEY FLUTE PIANO Parisian Impressions Louis Aubert (1877-1968) 9 Lied [2:11] TROY1585 LEONARD GARRISON Henri Gagnebin (1886-1977) FLUTE 10 March of the Jolly Fellows [2:27] Georges Brun (1878-1961) ROGER MCVEY PIANO 11 Romance, Op. 41 [4:41] Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) Leonard Garrison, 12 Romance [2:46] Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (1843-1917) Armand Bournonville (1890-1957) Deux pièces, Op. 72 13 Danse pour Katia [2:12] [5:17] 1 I. Barcarolle mélancolique Henri Büsser (1872-1973) flute 2 II. Scherzo [3:14] [2:46] 14 Les Cygnes Gérard Meunier (b. 1928) 15 Les Écureuils [1:39] 3 Au crépuscule [2:40] Johannes Donjon (1839-1912) Claude Arrieu (1903-1990) 16 Offertoire, Op. 12 [4:44] Sonatine [3:29] 17 Pan! (Pastorale No. 1) flute 4 I. Allegro moderato [2:57] Henri Büsser (1872-1973) 5 II. Andantino [1:40] Petite suite, Op. 12 6 III. Presto [2:12] 18 I. En sourdine: Andante poco adagio [2:13] Victor Alphonse Duvernoy (1842-1907) 19 II. Valse lente: Allegretto [2:03] Deux morceaux, Op. 41 [3:06] 20 III. Vieille chanson: Andante Leonard Garrison, 7 I. Lamento [4:36] [1:59] 21 IV. Scherzetto: Allegro vivace 8 II. Intermezzo [3:16] Total Time = 62:07 WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1585 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TROY1585 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2015 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. Parisian Impressions The Music Pianist and composer Victor-Alphonse Duvernoy (1842-1907) taught piano at the Paris Conservatory. He wrote much piano music and also operas, a ballet, chamber music, orchestral All of the music presented here, beautiful in its own right, is suitable for intermediate-level pieces, choral music, and songs. His best-known work for flute is the Concertino, Op. 45, a morceau flutists to play. None of these pieces have been widely recorded, so this project provides performance de concours from 1899. The Deux morceaux or Two Pieces for flute and piano date from 1898. models for younger flutists before they attempt the famous Paris Conservatory contest pieces, or Conductor, pianist, singer, critic, and composer Louis Aubert (1877-1968) studied morceaux de concours, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. composition at the Paris Conservatory with Gabriel Fauré. Maurice Ravel wrote Valses nobles et Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (1843-1917) studied with Charles Gounod and Ambroise Thomas sentimentales for Aubert, who gave its first performance. He was best known for his ballets, operas, at the Paris Conservatory. He won the coveted Prix de Rome in composition and wrote operas, chamber and film music. The Lied, meaning song in German, is in the collection Contemporary French Recital music, orchestral music, choral music, songs, and music for piano and organ. His Deux pièces or Two Pieces, Vol. 1 published by the International Music Company. Pieces for flute and piano date from 1889 and are similar in structure and style to the better-known Organist and composer Henri Gagnebin (1886-1977) spent most of his life in the French- morceaux de coucours. The first is a Barcarole, sung by Venetian gondoliers as they row through the city, speaking areas of Switzerland. He was director of the Geneva Conservatory from 1925-1957 and and many famous composers, including Chopin, Mendelssohn, Offenbach, Poulenc, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, wrote chamber music, symphonies, and many works for organ. His March of the Jolly Fellows appears and Verdi, and Weber, have written Barcaroles. Mendelssohn was a major influence on Lefebvre, and in the collection Contemporary French Recital Pieces, Vol. 1. the Scherzo from The Midsummer Night’s Dream has left its footprint on Lefebvre’s Scherzo. Little is known about composer Georges Brun (1878-1961). He married Antoinette Pianist and composer Gérard Meunier (b. 1928) was director of the Aubervilliers-La Laute-Brun, a Parisian opera star, in 1907 and wrote a few songs and a symphony. His Romance, Corneuve Conservatory, just northeast of Paris, for thirty years. He has written many works, often for Op. 41 is dedicated to Georges Barrère, an important French flutist who immigrated to New York younger musicians, for solo piano and for various wind instruments. Au crépuscule means at dusk, and taught many American flutists. and this short work captures the peaceful atmosphere of that time of day. Arthur Honegger (1903-1990) was a Swiss composer who spent most of his life in Paris. He Claude Arrieu (1903-1990) studied composition and piano at the Paris Conservatory. studied composition with Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) and Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931) at the Paris She wrote prolifically, particularly vocal music, but also film music, chamber music, and concertos. Conservatory. He was one of Les Six, a loosely affiliated group of French composers (the others were Georges For many years, she developed original works for the French Radio Broadcasting Program Service. Auric, Louis Durey, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre), although his works are Her Sonatine for flute and piano was first performed to acclaim on French radio by Jean-Pierre generally more serious and complex than those of his confreres. He is most famous for Pacific 231, an Rampal in 1944. The entire work is rarely performed, but the charming first movement is widely orchestral work that imitates the sound of a train. His flute works include the Concerto da camera for played by students. The second and third movements are more difficult and demand greater flute, English horn, and strings (1948), a masterpiece of the first rank, and Danse de la chèvre for solo virtuosity from both flutist and pianist. flute (1921), in the repertoire of every flutist. His Romance, written in 1952-1953, is not as well known. Armand Bournonville (1890-1957) wrote Nocturne for flute or violin and piano, Fantasie- Pan n’est pas mort! Impromptu for clarinet and piano, and a book of sight-singing exercises. He composed Danse pour Au fond des bois Katia in 1929 and dedicated it to Marcel Moyse, an important French flutist and recording artist who Quand tout s’endort! was the flute professor at the Paris Conservatory and later moved to the United States, where he Plus d’une fois influenced an entire generation of flutists through his classes in Vermont. Il souffle encore Henri Büsser (1872-1973) was a long-lived French composer, organist, and conductor. Un air sonore! He studied organ with César Franck, was friends with Jules Massenet, and was chosen by Claude Quand tout s’endort! Debussy to conduct numerous performances of the latter’s opera Pelléas et Mélisdande. His Pan n’est pas mort! orchestration of Debussy’s Petite Suite is widely performed. For most of his career, he taught composition at the Paris Conservatory. He wrote many operas and much chamber music, fortunately Pan is not dead! including several delightful works for flute. The Deux morceaux: Les Cygnes et Les Écureuils Deep in the woods charmingly depict swans and squirrels. When all are sleeping! Johannes Donjon (1839-1912), whose name in French means the keep or tower of a castle, More than once was principal flutist of the Paris Opera Orchestra and a student of Jean-Louis Tulou (1786-1865), He plays again a long-time professor at the Paris Conservatory in the days before the modern Boehm flute was A sonorous air! adopted. He wrote eight Études de salon and many other flute works that are hardly known today, When all are sleeping! with the exception of the two on this recording. Pan is not dead! One can perform the Offertoire, Op. 12 by Johannes Donjon for a church offertory as its title [translated by Leonard Garrison] suggests, or in recital. The accompaniment is originally for harmonium, a small organ, but is usually played on piano. Büsser’s Petite suite is also available in a version for piano four hands. Its subtitle is Much flute music, including Donjon’s popular Pan Pastorale No. 1, portrays the Greek god Divertissement Watteau, a divertissement being a lighter and less serious piece. The French painter and flutist, Pan. In ancient Greece, Pan represented rustic music, as opposed to Apollo, the God of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) set scenes of Fêtes galantes or courtship parties; his paintings cultivated beauty in the arts. Thus, this piece has an air of improvisation. The original score includes depict idyllic scenes of the nobility at play in the countryside. The suite captures this charming the following poem with no attribution (possibly an original poem by Donjon): atmosphere. En sourdine sets a muted mood, followed by a slow waltz (Valse lente), an old song (Vielle chanson); and a playful little Scherzo, or Scherzetto. —LEONARD GARRISON Acknowledgments The Performers Recorded August 1-2, 2014 by David Bjur in the University Auditorium at the University of Idaho, Leonard Garrison is Associate Professor of Flute and Associate Director Moscow, ID. Edited and mastered by David Bjur at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho, flutist Produced by Leonard Garrison. Cover photo by Leonard Garrison. Powell flute and Steinway piano. in the Northwest Wind Quintet, the Scott/Garrison Duo and the IWO Flute Quartet, and Principal Flute of the Walla Walla Symphony.