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Ropartz - Rhené-Baton
Trios avec piano

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ATMA ACD2 2542
Release : août 2007


Ropartz - Rhené-Baton
This is the third recording in a critically-acclaimed series entitled Découvertes 1890-1939, which explores works by little-known French composers. The featured artists are pianist Stéphane Lemelin and his colleagues, violinist Anne Robert and cellist Paul Marleyn, who together form the Trio Hochelaga. They perform trios with piano by two leading lights of the French musical establishment at the beginning of the 20th century : Joseph Guy Ropartz, a lawyer who eventually gave in to his passion for music to become a full-time musician and composer; and René Emmanuel Bâton, an orchestral conductor whose appearances included an engagement with Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet russes in 1912. Many of his works are clearly inspired by his love for Brittany and Breton culture.

Trio Hochelaga
Anne Robert, violin
Paul Marleyn, cello
Stéphane Lemelin, piano

Recording : Salle Françoys-Bernier, Domaine Forget,
Saint-Irénée, Québec, March 2007.


Trio en la mineur pour violon, violoncelle et piano (1918)
Ropartz, Joseph Guy (1864-1955)

Trio pour piano, violon et violoncelle, opus 31 (1923)
René-Emmanuel Bâton dit Rhené-Baton (1879-1940)


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Review

"Canada's Trio Hochelaga offers an ideal performance of these two trios (Ropartz and Rhené-Bâton), distinguished equally by the beauty and balance of the sonorities as by the generosity and rightness of the conception."

Jean Roy, Le monde de la musique, France, July-August 2008

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"We owe the Trio Hochelaga a great debt of thanks for unearthing these two wonderful selections, which they perform to perfection. No wonder they're considered one of Canada's best chamber music ensembles! What's more, the recorded sound is quite good, making for a disc that's worth investigating."

Bob McQuiston, Classical Lost and Found
Classical Releases Of Current Key Significance (CROCKS), October 2007



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