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Cras: My Beloved Family

Works dedicated to his family

Mélanie Boisvert (soprano), Lionel Peintre (baritone), Philippe Graffin (violin) & Alain Jacquon (piano), with François Kerdoncuff & Laurent Wagschal (piano), Colette Cras-Tansman (piano)

Orchestre Radio-Symphonique de Paris, Eugène Bigot

Release Date: 28th Jan 2013
Catalogue No: 1C1200
Label: Timpani
Series: The Cras Edition
Length: 69 minutes

Cras: Ames d'Enfants

Work length14:21

$3.00

$3.90

Alain Jacquon, François Kerdoncuff, Laurent Wagschal

I. Pures (Version for piano 6 hands)

Track length4:07

$1.00

$1.30

II. Naives (Version for piano 6 hands)

Track length4:54

$1.00

$1.30

III. Mysterieuses (Version for piano 6 hands)

Track length5:20

$1.00

$1.30

Cras: Premier Anniversaire

Work length5:33

$1.00

$1.30

Alain Jacquon

Cras: Air varie

Work length3:32

$1.00

$1.30

Philippe Graffin, Alain Jacquon

Air varie

Track length3:32

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$1.30

Cras: Habanera

Work length3:51

$1.00

$1.30

Philippe Graffin, Alain Jacquon

Cras: Evocation

Work length5:16

$1.00

$1.30

Philippe Graffin, Alain Jacquon

Cras: Eglogue

Work length3:43

$1.00

$1.30

Philippe Graffin, Alain Jacquon

Cras: 3 Chansons bretonnes

Work length9:19

$3.00

$3.90

Melanie Boisvert, Lionel Peintre, Alain Jacquon

No. 1, La rencontre

Track length2:22

$1.00

$1.30

No. 2, L'Aveu

Track length2:10

$1.00

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No. 3, La mort

Track length4:47

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Cras: Piano Concerto

Work length24:24

$5.00

$6.50

Colette Cras-Tansman
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Eugène Bigot

I. Lent - Modéré - Anime

Track length9:29

$2.00

$2.60

II. Tres lent

Track length6:09

$1.00

$1.30

III. Tres anime

Track length8:46

$2.00

$2.60

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The Cras project reaches its conclusion. This is no doubt the final volume in a long series. It is entirely devoted to the works that Jean Cras composed for his wife or children, all of them musicians. For a man whose career in the French Navy often kept him apart from his family it was a means of drawing closer to them: the Âmes d’enfants are presented here in their original version for the six hands of his three daughters, the four pieces for violin and piano intended as successive birthday offerings for his little boy, the much awaited child whose first birthday Cras would celebrate with a piano piece of the same name (Premier Anniversaire) — a highly elaborate and difficult work, of which Timpani owns the manuscript. As for his wife, he dedicated to her shortly before his death these Trois Chansons Bretonnes, a prefiguration perhaps of his death. And finally, the Piano Concerto finds here a performer of choice (in an INA 1948 source): his daughter, the work’s dedicatee who was a remarkable pianist and who formed a duet with her husband Alexander Tansman.

The performers are regulars to the collection. Particular care has been taken with the booklet: a text by a specialist, very many photos, most newly released, that reveal a Jean Cras who swapped his officer’s uniform for more homely garb.

Cras: My Beloved Family

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