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Guillaume Lekeu is one of music’s mighthave- beens: a prolific composer from the age of 15, who died of typhoid just nine years later and left a small, highly charged output of mostly chamber music influenced, via the hothouse harmonies of César Franck, more by Beethoven and Wagner than thecontemporary French fashions for lightness and delicacy above all. These, then, are works suffused with a kind of feverish, almost preternatural intensity, most notably the Piano Quartet which was unfinished at his premature death.
Track listing:
CD 1
1. Molto adagio sempre cantante doloroso (1887) 'Mon âme est triste' à la mort' Matthew 38 for string q 11:18
2. Andante più tosto adagio (1888) 'Vouloir' for violin and piano 6:35
3. Mèditiation: Adagio molto religioso cantante traquillo (1887) for string quartet 10:08
Piano Quartet (unfinished) (1894)
4. I. Dans un emportement douloureux (très animè) 14:45
5. II. Lent et passionè 9:55
Eugène Ysaÿe Ensemble
Christel Kessels, piano
Guido de Neve, violin
Dirk van den Hauwe, violin
Leo de Neve, viola
Jan Sciffer, cello
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