(1997) Claude Gervaise : Danceries (A quatre parties) Dominique Roggen profound knowledge of composition

profound knowledge of composition

This is not the case for Heitor Villa-Lobos

His repertory has always been extensive

Various interpretations of the oboe concerto were compared in this broadcast

The work is still completely in the tradition of late-romantic choral music

(1997) Claude Gervaise : Danceries (A quatre parties) Dominique Roggen profound knowledge of compositionAlongside Italy's prolific but also highly inspired, sometimes to the point of grandiloquence, a less rhetorical but more playful musical genre was developing in France: the air de danse. The melodic theme of each dance was commonly called timbre. These airs appeared in a variety of forms, depending on the audience for which they were intended: sometimes they were called harmonized danse de cour, sometimes dancerie (the term used by Claude Gervaise).