Agnelle Bundervoët: Complete Recordings On Decca France

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Brahms’s juxtaposition and synthesis of Baroque and Romantic elements in his Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel seem ideal for Bundervoët’s technical and musical gifts, and she delivers... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

Release Date: 19th Jun 2020
Catalogue No: ELQ4841507
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

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Liszt: Rhapsodie espagnole, S254

Work length13:30

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1955-10-30
Recording Venue: Paris

Excerpt, Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, 1ère année, Suisse (9 pieces), S. 160

Work length3:59

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1955-10-30
Recording Venue: Paris

4. Au bord d'une source

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Excerpt, Liszt: Valses oubliees (4) S215 / R37

Work length2:42

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1955-10-30
Recording Venue: Paris

No. 1

Track length2:42

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Excerpt, Liszt: Two Concert Studies, S145 / R6: Gnomenreigen; Waldesrauschen

Work length3:13

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1955-10-30
Recording Venue: Paris

No. 2: Gnomenreigen

Track length3:13

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Excerpt, Liszt: Grandes Études de Paganini (6), S. 141

Work length10:32

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1955-10-30
Recording Venue: Paris

No. 4 in E Major

Track length2:26

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No. 5 in E Major

Track length2:44

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No. 6 in A Minor

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Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Work length10:58

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1955-10-30
Recording Venue: Paris

Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Work length24:18

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1956-03-17
Recording Venue: Paris

Theme: Aria

Track length1:01

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Variation I

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Variation II

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Variation III

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Variation IV

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Variation V

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Variation VI

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Variation VII

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Variation VIII

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Variation IX

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Variation X

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Variation XI

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Variation XII

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Variation XIII

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Variation XIV

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Variation XV

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Variation XVI

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Variation XVII

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Variation XVIII

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Variation XIX

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Variation XX

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Variation XXI

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Variation XXII

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Variation XXIII

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Variation XXIV

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Variation XXV

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Fuga

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Brahms: Rhapsodies (2), Op. 79

Work length15:29

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1956-03-17
Recording Venue: Paris

No.1 in B Minor, Op.79 / 1

Track length8:54

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No.2 in G Minor, Op.79 / 2

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Excerpt, Brahms: Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119

Work length5:15

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1956-03-17
Recording Venue: Paris

4. Rhapsody in E-flat

Track length5:15

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Schumann: Intermezzi (6), Op. 4

Work length21:58

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1957-09-24
Recording Venue: Paris

No. 1: Allegro quasi maestoso

Track length3:47

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No. 2: Presto e capriccioso

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No. 3: Allegro marcato

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No. 4: Allegretto semplice

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No. 5: Allegro moderato

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No. 6: Allegro

Track length4:10

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Schumann: Toccata in C major, Op. 7

Work length5:50

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1957-09-24
Recording Venue: Paris

Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12

Work length26:55

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Agnelle Bundervoët (piano)
Recorded: 1957-09-24
Recording Venue: Paris

1. Des Abends

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2. Aufschwung

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3. Warum?

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4. Grillen

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5. In der Nacht

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6. Fabel

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7. Traumes Wirren

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8. Ende vom Lied

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Three exceptionally rare Decca LPs of a much prized French pianist, newly remastered and released on CD for the first time. Rheumatism forced Agnelle Bundervoet to retire from the platform at the peak of her career in the late 1950s, though she continued to pass on to her students at the Conservatoire of Versailles the beautifully defined articulation, mastery of high expressive contrasts, and remarkable rhythmic drive that distinguish the recordings of Schumann, Brahms and Liszt on this collection, which will attract the attention of all pianophiles. One of those students was Frederic Gaussin, who contributes a personal memoir and authoritative survey of her life and career to this Eloquence collection. He remembers Bundervoet as a very demanding teacher: implacable but fair, generous, an acute psychologist, a spiritual person, dispensing pieces, studies and writing exercises with the knowledge and far-sightedness of a world-class physician. Born in 1922, Bundervoet began to learn the piano at the age of four, and within three years she was enrolled at the conservatoire in Marseilles. She was accepted at the Paris Conservatoire by the age of ten, even though she was too young to undertake the formal program of study, but the pedagogue Lazare-Levy recognised her exceptional intellect, prodigious technique and innate musical gifts. She was awarded the conservatoires Premier Prix for six years in succession, and her talents extended beyond the piano to singing, organ playing and choir directing. Her first album, a Bach recital, was awarded a Grand Prix du Disque, but she was dissatisfied with the engineering of the Ducretet-Thomson recording; the trio of Decca albums (recorded in 195557) enjoys a far wider dynamic range and a much richer timbral palette, more faithfully capturing the elegance and refinement of her playing in the flesh. They hardly reflect the breadth of her repertoire, which took in much new music, but they now count as a precious testament to a notable if now little-known inheritor of the French piano tradition. The musical pleasures of Agnelle Bundervoets performance cannot be overstated the poetic spell, the magic of contrasts, the visionary unity mark this interpretation with the seal of Schumannesque authenticity The excellent recording, sympathetic to the quick reflexes of Agnelle Bundervoet, should appeal to all Schumann enthusiasts. Vie et Bonte, December 1956

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Jan/Feb 2021

Brahms’s juxtaposition and synthesis of Baroque and Romantic elements in his Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel seem ideal for Bundervoët’s technical and musical gifts, and she delivers a triumphant performance. The Rhapsodies, op. 79, Nos. 1 and 2, and op. 119, No. 4, are marvelous as well.

Agnelle Bundervoët: Complete Recordings On Decca France

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