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Complete works for cello and piano by Paul Bazelaire \u2013 premiere recording.<\/p>\n
Paul Bazelaire (1886-1958) was a French composer and professor at the Music Conservatory in Paris. He has been best known for his great arrangements of various classical pieces and as a teacher of several outstanding cellists. Besides ‘Suite Fran\u00e7aise’ his works for cello and piano have never previously been recorded nor been known to a wider audience. After searching the Bazelaire-archives in Sedan, the exquisite cellist Morten Zeuthen and pianist Daniel Blumenthal discovered these exquisite romantic pearls for cello and piano that are now finally available.<\/p>\n
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Charming and elegant French music brought forth by the eminent cellist Morten Zeuthen and pianist Daniel Blumenthal.<\/p>\n
Bazelaire started studying the cello only seven years old, and having finished his studies in both composition and cello (with the highest degree) he toured internationally as cello soloist. 32 years old he was offered a professorship at the Paris conservatory, a position he held for 40 years. Bazelaire almost never touched the cello when he taught; he sat at the piano and instructed his students from there. He believed that this approach benefited the individuality that any true artist must bring to the music, so that his young students would not feel obliged to copy the teacher, sound-wise or physically, but find their own voice instead.<\/p>\n
In his liner note for this album, Morten Zeuthen talks about how Bazelaire in his own time was known as an arranger of other composers. Around 1900 baroque music was ‘adapted to the audience\u2019s taste’, and Bazelaire was a master at this craft. As the development moved towards an interest in the original works, the name of Bazelaire would be forgotten with his arrangements. Only a couple of his pieces have stayed in the repertoire, the most populare being ‘Suite Fran\u00e7aise sur des airs populaires’ where Bazelaire adapts five popular folksongs.<\/p>\n
These two gentlemen have spent a lot of time among the manuscripts in Sedan, France, the birthplace of Bazelaire, making it possible to present many works that have not been recorded before. Professor Zeuthen of the Royal Danish Conservatory have given concerts in such venues as Carnegie and Wigmore Hall, and also long line of critically acclaimed recordings. Professor Blumenthal of The Royal Flemish Concervatore has given recitals at Tanglewood, in Concertgebouw and performed as soloist with orchestras including the English Chamber Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Philippe Muller, violoncelliste, Pr\u00e9sident de l’Association Fran\u00e7aise du Violoncelle; states \u201cJe suis tr\u00e8s content d\u2019\u00e9couter ces oeuvres qui ont beaucoup de gr\u00e2ce et un charme \u00e9vident. Ce disque a l\u2019immense m\u00e9rite de rassembler et de faire conna\u00eetre des compositions du plus haut int\u00e9r\u00eat\u00a0 r\u00e9unies pour la premi\u00e8re fois en un ensemble passionnant.\u201d<\/p>\n
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