Ransom Wilson plays Damase & Francaix
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.NI6304

By Arnarud Leroy, Jacques Tys, Jean-Michael Damase, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, and Ransom Wilson. By Jean Francaix and Jean-Michael Damase. Country of Origin: United Kingdom. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.NI6304).

UPC: 710357630422.

Damase's music combines grace and sparkling wit with a gentle nobility. The essential simplicity of his writing, especially when compared to the voguish intellectual inscrutability of the avant garde, led to his being side-lined at a time when novelty was all the rage. Yet although he was highly prolific, little of his music is known outside his native France. The works featured in this recital epitomise nearly half-a-century of creative endeavour. Of the younger composers from whom Damase drew freely for creative inspiration, he felt the greatest affinity with Francaix. Francaix showed exceptional talent from an early age and was already composing freely by the age of six. Highly prolific - he once described himself as 'constantly composing' - Francaix established his reputation during the 1930s with a series of works (most notably his Concertino for piano and orchestra) that demonstrate his effortless command of a wide range of genres. The wind family of instruments plays a crucial role in many of Francaix's 200 or so published works and of these the flute is pre-eminent.

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