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Visages Baroques

Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar)

Visages Baroques

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[His] supple sensitivity underpins a formidable yet remarkably unshowy expressive power...Feuillâtre’s acute musical intelligence allies with frequent ornamentation...It ’s an exquisite, joyfully...

BBC Music Magazine, June 20235 out of 5 stars

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Visages Baroques

Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar)

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Awards:

[His] supple sensitivity underpins a formidable yet remarkably unshowy expressive power...Feuillâtre’s acute musical intelligence allies with frequent ornamentation...It ’s an exquisite, joyfully...

BBC Music Magazine, June 20235 out of 5 stars

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The critics are highly enthusiastic about the young, successful guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre. "One of the most exciting concert guitarists of his generation," is how Guitar Salon International judges him, while Classical Guitar calls him "a fantastically versatile and sensitive performer." Feuillâtre celebrated his international breakthrough in 2018 as winner of the prestigious international competition of the "Guitar Foundation of America". With his debut on Deutsche Grammophon, he aims to share his love of Baroque music. The guitarist has recorded works by J.S Bach and his French contemporaries Forqueray, Rameau, Royer and Duphly. Once mostly written for harpsichord solo, they have been translated here into the colorful sound world of the guitar.

The album's title, Visages baroques (Faces of the Baroque), "refers to the very different qualities that each work acquires through its arrangement, but it also refers to the many facets of the guitar that are revealed here through the choice of music," Feuillâtre says. Two great works by Bach are featured: Concerto in D Major BWV 972, itself a transcription for harpsichord of a violin concerto by Vivaldi, and Partita No. 1 BWV 825, along with six French pieces. This music is framed by two other short pieces by Bach, the Prelude in C major and the Gavotte en rondeau from his Partita for solo violin in E major. Not to be underestimated, the entire repertoire is expanded by the transcriptions for guitar, some previously unpublished.

Contents and tracklist

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 1 in C major, BWV846: Prelude
Work length1:55
Royer, P: L'Aimable
Work length4:28
Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto in D major (after Vivaldi), BWV972
Work length9:09
I. Allegro (Arr. Perroy for Guitar)
Track length2:29
II. Larghetto (Arr. Perroy for Guitar)
Track length4:06
III. Allegro (Arr. Perroy for Guitar)
Track length2:34
Rameau: L'Entretien des muses
Work length5:45
Rameau: Les Cyclopes
Work length3:48
Bach, J S: Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV825
Work length20:20
I. Prelude (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
Track length2:16
II. Allemande (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
Track length3:49
III. Courante (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
Track length3:09
IV. Sarabande (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
Track length5:23
V. Menuet I (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
Track length1:41
VI. Menuet II (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
Track length1:34
VII. Gigue (Arr. Reichenbach for Guitar)
Track length2:28
Excerpt,Forqueray, A: Suite No. 1 in D minor
Work length3:45
No. 4, La Bellmont (Arr. Antoine Fougeray and Feuillâtre for Guitar)
Track length3:45
Duphly: Pièces de clavecin, Book 3
Work length9:36
No. 4, La Forqueray (Arr. Antoine Fougeray for Guitar)
Track length4:58
No. 6, Médée (Arr. Antoine Fougeray for Guitar)
Track length4:38
Excerpt,Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006
Work length3:21
III. Gavotte en Rondeau (Transcr. for Guitar)
Track length3:21

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Awards and reviews

June 2023

[His] supple sensitivity underpins a formidable yet remarkably unshowy expressive power...Feuillâtre’s acute musical intelligence allies with frequent ornamentation...It ’s an exquisite, joyfully presented programme.
5 out of 5 stars

July 2023

an uncommon breadth of spirit...shines through every note in this beautiful recital.

31st March 2023

Feuillâtre’s debut album Visages Baroques is, indeed, something very special – a thoughtful programme of Baroque music flying the flag not just for the guitar as an instrument, but for the noble art of transcription.
David Smith
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