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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: mikehopf on Wednesday 22 January 2014, 20:56

Title: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: mikehopf on Wednesday 22 January 2014, 20:56
Just out on Ediciones Singulaires: Volume 1 of Gouvy's Cantatas, Chamber Works et al. on 3 CDs includes a Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra plus assorted String Quartets & Piano Trios.
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 22 January 2014, 21:19
I spotted this, but couldn't establish exactly which works are involved...
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: Mark Thomas on Tuesday 11 February 2014, 11:04
According to this listing at jpc (http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Portraits-Vol-1Cantate/hnum/4015670), the set contains: the Sinfonietta, Fantaisie pastorale for Violin & Orchestra,  the Cantata La Religieuse, the Overtures Le Giaour, Jeann d'Arc and Le Festival, the Quartets op.56 No.2 and no.5 op.68, the Piano Trio op.22 and Serenades for the piano.
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: Mark Thomas on Tuesday 11 February 2014, 11:07
These may not be new recordings, I'm not sure, but K617 will shortly be issuing a CD with Gouvy's Piano Quintet No.6 and the Piano Trio No.2. Scant details here (http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Quintette-A-2-Violoncelle/hnum/4013929).
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: jdperdrix on Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:15
You can check tracks and listen to samples on qobuz (http://www.qobuz.com/recherche?q=gouvy&i=boutique (http://www.qobuz.com/recherche?q=gouvy&i=boutique)) as well as piano trios 2, 3 & 4 by trio Voces Intimae. Also available for streaming (not the trios) and downloading.
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: Mark Thomas on Tuesday 11 February 2014, 17:53
Thanks very much for the qobuz link.
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: petershott@btinternet.com on Tuesday 11 February 2014, 23:01
Piano Quintet No. 6? There is surely only one Gouvy Pf Quintet - that in A major, Op. 24?
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: Mark Thomas on Tuesday 11 February 2014, 23:31
I was guilty of uncritically copying the jpc listing, Peter. My apologies. The pdf of the CD booklet (http://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art73/4834373-9b74ea-3383510002465_01.pdf), which I've now tracked down, makes it clear that it is the String Quintet in A minor of 1880.
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 29 August 2017, 19:00
I've just picked up this release. And what a treasure trove it contains! It starts off with the utterly beguiling Sinfonietta - and absolute masterpiece in its genre, I've no doubt. If this were by a starrier name, it'd be part of the standard repertoire.
Title: Re: Feeling Gouvy!
Post by: sdtom on Wednesday 30 August 2017, 21:06
a bold statement and worth exploring