MOUQUET Complete Music for Flute and Piano. Sara Ligas, Luca Nurchis. Brilliant Classics

• Cinq Pièces Brèves Op.39
• Danse Grecque Op.14
• Divertissement Grec Op.23
• Berceuse Op.22
• Eglogue Op.29
• La Flûte de Pan Op.15

Sara Ligas – flute
Luca Nurchis – piano

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Jules Mouquet (1867-1946) was born in Paris and studied composition at that city’s Conservatoire with Theodore Dubois. A winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome he became Professor at the Paris Conservatoire, and established himself as a key figure in the French cultural elite, a composer, teacher and author, writing prefaces and notes for works by prominent authors, including Rimbaud, Flaubert and Baudelaire.

This new recording presents Mouquet’s complete works for flute and piano. Their titles (La Flûte de Pan, Danse Grecque, Eglogue, Berceuse, Divertissement Grec) already hint at the character of the music: evocative, scenic, often using modal scales and generally influenced by the warm, sensual and sweetly-romantic language of the young Debussy.

Beautifully played, with the right mixture of esprit, charm and seductiveness by Sara Ligas and Luca Nurchis, who already successfully recorded flute music by Karg-Elert for Brilliant Classics.

Brilliant Classics 95505BR

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