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Georganne Cassat - Images

This is a tape that I found on one of my digs earlier in the year. It's all lovely harp music that are equivalent to impressionist paintings as the liner notes mention. Harpist Georganne Cassat performs "Images", composed by Marcel Tournier, which this composition's suites comprise most of the album. There are three other pieces performed: "Girl with the Flaxen Hair" by Claude Debussy, "Choral" by Marcelle Soulage and "Etude" by Schmidt. I was unable to find out the full name of Schmidt who composed the piece, so if anyone knows, please let me know.

Liner notes about "Images":

MARCEL TOURNIER, one of the most important harpists and composers for harp in the 19th and 20th centuries wrote these brilliant masterpieces during the early part of this century terminating the Fourth Suite in 1932. This is the first recording in their entirety. The titles are exotic and reflect the nature of the music which is in itself extraordinary. Should one close one's eyes one can but imagine the impressionistic paintings the composer so eloquently pens and the harpist so brilliantly displays in a quilted patchwork of exotic symbolism and "panache" designed to tease and seduce and transport the listener to hitherto uncharted musical domains and cultivated elegance.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Images 1er Suite: Clair de Lune sur l'Etang du fare {5:01}

2. Images 1er Suite: Au seuil du Temple {1:21}

3. Images 1er Suite: Lolita, la danseuse {2:33}

4. Images 2e Suite: Les enfants a la creche de Noel {2:58}

5. Images 2e Suite: L'etrange Cavalier {3:03}

6. Images 2e Suite: La Marchande de Frivolites {3:30}

7. Images 3e Suite: Les Anesses grises sur la route d' El-Azib {3:58}

8. Images 3e Suite: Danseuse a la fontaine d'Ain-Draham {4:03}

9. Images 3e Suite: Soir de Fete a Sedjenane {3:17}

Side B

10. Images 4e Suite: La voliere magique {4:48}

11. Images 4e Suite: Cloches sous la neige {1:49}

12. Images 4e Suite: La danse du moujik {5:32}

13. Girl with the Flaxen Hair {3:22}

14. Choral {5:59}

15. Etude {2:44}

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