Robert Veyron-Lacroix News
French musician
- harpsichord, piano
- classical music
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- pianist, musicologist, music teacher, harpsichordist
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2019-05-01 09:00:00
Rating: 0 A successful performance of the Sonata needs an acute sense of interaction between the players. All chamber music demands that, you might well argue, but Poulenc’s fine-spun tissues require an unusual intimacy. The flute’s melodic line throughout the first movement, for instance, is practically a stream of consciousness, as it reacts to the piano’s changes of key. The secret lies in the balance of the phrases, the way one leads on to another, the way any speed changes are organic. Then there’s sheer beauty of sound. […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-05-19 16:12:31
Few traces left of Huguette’s great recorded legacy
A cri-de-coeur from the French harpsichordist Orhan Memed: I’m one of the many students of Huguette Dreyfus whom Jory Vinikour mentions in his touching tribute and who finds himself utterly at a loss to imagine the musical world without her presence. I feel compelled to write to point out with regret how few of her recordings have been reissued. A quick search on the ‘net brings up very little, with only the Bartok and the Bach Partitas released in the last 10 years. I am probably one of the few who has in his possession the list that Huguette kept of her complete discography and I wanted to share it with you…in the hope that readers would see not only how extensive but also how varied it is… and alas how unlucky we are not to have the opportunity to hear these recordings. The Haydn Trios with Eduard Melkus, […]
2014-11-10 06:59:26
There were only six of us in the French 5 class and, the next year, French 6 class of Madame Josephine Speidel. These were probably the smallest academic classes at our high school. In addition to learning about the passé simple and the subjunctive in grammar, faux amis in vocabulary and when to pronounce a liaison between words or when to drop an unstressed e, we soaked up French history, literature and classical music. We didn’t fully appreciate our good fortune. Madame Speidel was a woman whose posture and enthusiasm made her taller and more impressive than nature. She seemed ancient to a seventeen-year-old: pepper-and-salt hair, cardigans and reading glasses on a chain; she might have been in her early sixties. Madame Speidel’s enthusiasm almost never flagged. We read, memorized and recited poetry; listened to plays on tape and sometimes read parts from plays like Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Moliere. […]
2014-11-05 05:36:00
Hello everyone, this is my first post on MIMC, and I'm going to post a series of my collections of the French flutist Jean-Pierre RAMPAL, and the Baroque keyboard player Robert VEYRON-LACROIX. Since most of their recordings were made for ERATO, now a forgotten brand under Warner Bro., it is really hard to find the masterpieces made by this famous duet. And actually they have made quite complete repertoires of flute sonatas from Bach, Haendel, to Mozart, to Debussy, to Poulenc, Milhaud, and even Prokofiev. Haendel: Flute Sonatas Op.1, and 3 Hallenser Sonatas. Jean-Pierre RAMPAL (flute), Robert VEYRON-LACROIX (clavecin) ici
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