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Quatuor Van Kuijk explores treasures by Fauré, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano or voice. The program includes Debussy’s Petite Suite pour piano à quatre mains, Ravel’s famous Pavane pour une infante défunte and well-known songs by Poulenc, Fauré and Satie in transcriptions made especially for this recording by Van Kuijk violist Emmanuel François and by Jean-Christophe Masson and Gildas Guillon. The quartet also asked jazz pianist and composer Baptiste Trotignon to create a work that would freely resonate alongside the styles of the composers whose works had been transcribed.

Tracklist

Francis Poulenc: Five songs arr. for String Quartet
Gabriel Fauré: Four songs arr. for String Quartet
Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess arr. for String Quartet
Erik Satie: “Je te veux” arr. for String Quartet
Claude Debussy: Petite Suite arr. for String Quartet
Baptiste Trotignon: CES MESSIEURS

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