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Fluffy lick.
By heating.
With a graceful sway and a bit of abandon..."
This is not an excerpt from
First Kiss For Dummies
or
The Perfect Teen's Valentine's Day Survival Guide
, but an example of the countless - and fanciful - stage directions with which Eugène Walckiers sprinkled his scores.
The composer, born in 1793, would no doubt have remained unknown if the flautist and conductor Alexis Kossenko, renowned for his passionate re-readings of Rameau, had not decided to bring him out of oblivion.
Convinced, after going through the 110 opuses in his catalogue, that there was in Walckiers
"a man of taste and genius"
, the interpreter did not hesitate to dedicate a box set of four discs to him.
Surrounding himself with a team of exceptional chamber musicians, including young violist Léa Hennino, cellist Christophe Coin and Nicolas Baldeyrou on clarinet.
The box set gives an accurate overview of the stylistic variety of Walckier's chamber works.
Footprints of lightness and…
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