The Enesco Quartet is a French

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based in Paris.

History

The Enesco Quartet was formed in 1979. Wishing to honour the memory of the illustrious Georges Enesco (1881-1955), their founders gave his name to the Quartet. Their meeting with the famous musicians

Sándor Végh Sándor Végh (17 May 19127 January 1997) was a Hungarian, later French, violinist and conductor. He was best known as one of the great chamber music violinists of the twentieth century. Education Sándor Végh was born in 1912 in Kolozsvár, ...

Norbert Brainin Norbert Brainin, OBE (12 March 1923 in Vienna – 10 April 2005 in London) was the first violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, one of the world's most highly regarded string quartets. Because of Brainin's Jewish origin, he was driven out of Vienna ...

and

Sergiu Celibidache Sergiu Celibidache (; ; 13 August 1996) was a Romanian people, Romanian Conducting, conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over fi ...

was of the utmost importance: the Enesco Quartet established itself internationally from the very beginning of their studies with these great artists with whom they maintained privileged relations. Their repertoire is distinguished by a very large number of quartets, as well as numerous works ranging from the

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to the

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, including classical and romantic pages from the 18th, 19th, and 20th century, which occupies an important place in their programmes. They have performed a large number of contemporary works for string quartets composed by

Philippe Hersant Philippe Hersant (born 21 June 1948 in Rome) is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Selected works :: Hersant's works are largely published by Éditions Durand. ;Stage * ''Le Château des Carpathes (opera), Le Châtea ...

Serge Nigg Serge Nigg (6 June 1924 – 12 November 2008) was a French composer, born in Paris. Biography After initial studies with Ginette Martenot, Nigg entered the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and studied harmony with Olivier Messiaen and counterpoint wi ...

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Jean-Jacques Werner Jean-Jacques Werner (20 January 1935 – 22 October 2017)''La d ...

, Pierre-Max Dubois,

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, Nicolas Philippot,

Jesús Guridi Jesús Guridi Bidaola (25 September 1886 – 7 April 1961) was a Spanish Basque composer who was a key player in 20th-century Spanish and Basque music. His style fits into the late Romantic idiom, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a stron ...

, Xavier Montsalvatge, José Peris Lacasa,

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and

José García Román José García Román (born 1945) is a Spanish symphonic composer. He is the author of more than one hundred works, including ''La resurrección de don Quijote'', ''El bosque de Diana'' (with libretto by Antonio Muñoz Molina), ''Ruinas de Oradour S ...

. Many of them have written works especially for the Enesco Quartet. They are regularly invited to the main festivals :

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, Pablo Casals Festival,

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, Paris, Cannes Santander Granada, Stavelot, Echternach, Kuhmo
Guildford
, Bâle, Bucharest and they have played with artists such as

Olivier Charlier Olivier Charlier (born 17 February 1961) is a French classical violinist. He plays on a violin by Carlo Bergonzi dated 1747. Biography Charlier was born in Albert, Somme and admitted at the age of 10 to the Conservatoire de Paris where he at ...

, Lluís Claret,

Jean-Philippe Collard Collard at the ''Flâneries musicales'', Reims (6 June 2014) Jean-Philippe Henri Collard (born 27 January 1948) is a French pianist known for his interpretations of the works of Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns. Career Collard was born ...

Patrice Fontanarosa Patrice Fontanarosa (born 4 September 1942 in Paris) is a French classical violinist. Early life Fontanarosa is the elder son of the painters Lucien Fontanarosa (1912-1975) and Annette Faive-Fontanarosa (1911-1988). Education In 1959, Fontan ...

Youri Egorov Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov (; 28 May 1954 – 16 April 1988) was a Soviet and Monegasque classical pianist. Early years Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conservatory from the age of 6 until age 17. One of his earl ...

, Pascal Gallet,

Ivry Gitlis Ivry Gitlis (;‎ 25 August 1922 – 24 December 2020) was an Israeli virtuoso violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He performed with the world's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmoni ...

Michel Lethiec
Roberte Mamou, Paul Meyer,

Aurèle Nicolet Aurèle Nicolet (22 January 1926 – 29 January 2016) was a Swiss flautist. He was considered one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century. He performed in various international concerts. A number of composers wrote music ...

Marielle Nordmann Marielle Nordmann (born 24 January 1941 in Montpellier) is a French classical harpist. Biography Marielle Nordmann was a pupil of Lily Laskine at the Conservatoire de Paris where she won a first prize in 1958. Between 1960 and 1978, she led ...

Régis Pasquier Régis Pasquier (born 12 October 1945) is a French violinist from a family of musicians. His father Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986), a violist and his uncles Jean (1903), a violinist, and Étienne (1905–1997), a cellist, had founded a string trio, ...

Jean-Pierre Rampal Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and spurring contemporary composers, ...

Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Russian Cello, cellist and conducting, conductor. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enl ...

Michel Strauss Michel Strauss (born 1951, in Paris) is a French cellist. Strauss was educated by Paul Tortelier and Maurice Gendron at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won first prizes in cello and in chamber music, before continuing his studies at Yale Univ ...

Gabriel Tacchino Gabriel Tacchino (; 4 August 1934 – 29 January 2023) was a French classical pianist and teacher. Life and career Tacchino was born in Cannes on 4 August 1934. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire from 1947 to 1953, whe ...

, Haruko Ueda, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden,

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etc. The Enesco Quartet has performed in the most prestigious halls in the world, including the

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, the

Salle Pleyel The Salle Pleyel (, meaning "Pleyel Hall") is a concert hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, designed by the acoustician Gustave Lyon together with the architect Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926, and the work was completed i ...

and the

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées () is an entertainment venue standing at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris. It is situated near Avenue des Champs-Élysées, from which it takes its name. Its eponymous main hall may seat up to 1,905 people, while th ...

in Paris, the

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and the

National Auditorium of Music The Auditorio Nacional de Música (''National Auditorium of Music'') is a complex of concert venues located in Madrid, Spain and the main concert hall in the Madrid metropolitan area. It comprises two main concert rooms: a symphonic hall and a cham ...

in Madrid, the

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in Lisbon, the

Royal Concertgebouw The Royal Concertgebouw (, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb acoustics place it among the finest concert halls in the world, along with Boston' ...

in Amsterdam, the

Wigmore Hall The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall at 36 Wigmore Street, in west London. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and opened in 1901 as the Bechstein Hall; it is considered to have particularly good building acoustics, acoustics. It specialis ...

in London, and the

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in Washington. Every year, the Quartet is invited for

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es in the most important music venues in France, as well as in Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and Finland. Their discography includes numerous recordings for French record companies

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, Forlane, Rem, as well as Claves (Spain), Novalis (Switzerland) and CPO (Germany), with works by Schubert, Schumann, Dvořák, Boccherini, Cherubini, Debussy, Ravel, Franck, Chausson, Vierne, Enesco, Janacek, Bartok, Shostakovich, Guridi. For the recording of Franck and Chausson, with the pianist

, they were awarded the

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

, and for the CD comprising three quartets of French contemporary music by Nigg, Hersant, and Philippot, they were awarded the Grand Prix de l'Académie française du disque. In Spain, their recording of Guridi's two quartets was voted Best Record of the Year. Pierre Petit, the famous

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, in an article in ''

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'', called them "messengers of poetry", and speaking of their "warmth and virtuosity", he concluded: "decidedly, the Enesco quartet is a very great quartet". The Enesco Quartet has celebrated its 40 years of artistic activity in 2019. In the last two seasons, the Quartet has played several concerts at the Royal Palace in Madrid with the quartet of Stradivarius instruments belonging to the Palacio Real, precious instruments that the Enesco Quartet has been playing regularly for 30 years. In Paris, the Enesco Quartet performed the world premiere of the first quartet by composer Fabrice Gregorutti, followed in March by the CD recording of the work. They then performed the world premiere of the second quartet with

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, and the third quartet by the same composer. After concerts and masterclasses in France, they played several concerts in two tours in Germany, as well as participating in the festivals of Koblenz and Osnabrück. In May, they performed "Kuhmo in Paris", and then in July at the

Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival () is an international chamber music festival held every July for two weeks in Kuhmo, Finland. It is the largest chamber music festival in Finland in terms of sold tickets. The festival attracts 6,000–8,000 visitors an ...

in Finland, where they return for the tenth consecutive year. On this occasion, they met the composer

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and performed his second string quartet, as well as

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's piano quintet, in the presence of the composer. Last recordings : After its prestigious

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, the quartet continued its recording cycles. Currently, the Quartet has released a Shostakovich record (1st and 7th quartets and the piano quintet), as well as the premiere of the latest quartets by José Peris Lacasa, ''Postnuclear Winter Scenario'' by

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, ''Tenebrae'' and ''Last round'' by

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. The world premiere performance of Vladimir Mendelssohn's ''Fantasy'' for Quartet was a great success in South Korea and Scandinavia. Projects for 2017 and 2018 included Ravel's quartet in his city of residence (

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), the "Musique et Passions" cycle in Paris, concerts at the Palazzo Contarini Dal Zaffo in Venice, and a day of concerts in Antwerp dedicated to the composer Georges Enesco, including works for quartet, piano quartet and octet. The Enesco Quartet been invited for the 25th consecutive year in the prestigious

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series of the "

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Foundation" in Madrid.

Members

First violin

* Constantin Bogdanas. First Prize at the National Superior Conservatory of Bucharest, Bogdanas moved to Paris in 1979. He was concertmaster of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and later became concertmaster of the

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. First Grand Prize winner of the Paris International Chamber Music Competition, laureate of the Tibor Varga International Competition, he leads a career as a soloist and chamber musician, notably as a founding member of the Enesco Quartet. Professor at the Francis Poulenc Conservatory in Paris and assistant professor at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...

, Bogdanas is a member of numerous juries and participates in a large number of master classes in France, the United States, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Finland. With the Enesco Quartet, he is invited to play in the world's greatest concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau, Library of Congress... His recordings with the Enesco Quartet have earned him major awards: "Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Française du Disque, Diapason d'Or, Choc de la Musique".

Second violin

* Florin Szigeti Born into a family with a musical tradition, Szigeti brilliantly completed his studies, winning the "First Prize for Violin" and

at the Conservatoire de Paris and the "Grand Prize of the National Violin Competition" in Bucharest. Szigeti is a founding member of the prestigious "Enesco Quartet" with which he settled in France in 1979. With the quartet, he won the ''Premier Grand Prix'' of the ''Concours International de Musique de chambre de Paris'', and the ''Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Française du Disque'' followed by several ''Diapasons d'Or'' and ''Chocs de la Musique'' for the recordings with the Enesco Quartet. He is regularly invited with the Quartet to play in the most important festivals and on the most prestigious stages around the world. Szigeti teaches violin at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris (CRR) and at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSM), thus combining a rich artistic and educational career. Recitals and concerts as a soloist, four decades as the

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of several chamber and philharmonic orchestras, and more than two thousand quartet concerts mark Florin Szigeti's musical career. A highly recognised teacher, Szigeti is regularly invited to give violin and chamber music juries and master classes in the most important music centres in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Finland, in the company of the greatest names in music.

Alto

Vladimir Mendelssohn Vladimir Mendelssohn (29 November 1949 – 13 August 2021) was a Romanian composer, violist, and professor. He had served as Director of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival since August 2005. Biography Mendelssohn was born into a family of musician ...

was born into a family with a long musical tradition in Romania, and studied viola and composition in Bucharest. He is very much in demand as a chamber musician, and he regularly plays in many international festivals with the biggest names in music. With the Enesco Quartet, he is invited to play all over the world, on the most prestigious stages. He has also given solo concerts and made numerous recordings for various record companies. Mendelssohn is a prolific composer, writing works for solo instruments, mixed choir, chamber and symphony orchestras. He has also written chamber music, ballet, incidental music, and film music. He is currently professor of chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris, and also teaches in The Hague, Essen and Bologna, and regularly gives master classes all over the world. Since autumn 2005, Mendelssohn has been the

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of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. Dan Iarca is one of the founding members of the Athenaeum Enesco Quartet. He was a member of this ensemble from its creation in 1979 to 1980 and from 1989 to 2002, the year of his death.Quatuor Enesco
on nancyphonies.net Liviu Stanese was a member of the Enesco Quartet from March 1981 to February 1989.

Violoncello

* Dorel Fodoreanu is First Prize of the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Bucharest. He was principal cello in the Georges Enesco Philharmonic Orchestra. He continued his career as a soloist, having at the same time a rich chamber music activity. A founding member of the Enesco Quartet, he moved to Paris in 1979. Fodoreanu was one of the first artists of Romanian origin to be invited as a soloist by the Georges Enesco Philharmonic Orchestra after the

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. First Prize at the Paris Chamber Music Competition and Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Française du Disque with the Enesco Quartet. He was also awarded the

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Prize in 1990. Fodoreanu has been invited for concerts and master classes by the

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(Orlando), the

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of Durham (North Carolina), in Great Britain, Palacio Real in Madrid and at the request of the Government of Aragon, in Albaracin, Alcaniz and Burgos. He has played as principal cello in the Barcelona Orchestra and the Arturo Toscanini Filarmonica of Parma. Fodoreanu is a regular guest on international juries: Paris, St. Petersburg (Tchaikovsky Junior), the Conservatories of Pari, Lyon, and Marseille.

Recordings

César Franck César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium. He was born in Liège (which at the time of h ...

: Quintet for piano & strings;

Ernest Chausson Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer. Life Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a building contractor who made his fortune assisting Ba ...

: Quartet Op. 35 ''Inachevé'' - Gabriel Tacchino, piano (Arion / Pierre Verany PV 792032) —

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predec ...

: Quintet for piano & strings, Op. 81; Quartet Op. 96 "American" - Gabriel Tacchino, piano (Arion / Pierre Verany PV 795011) *

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

: Quintet for piano op.44; Quartet Op. 41 N 1 - Gabriel Tacchino, piano (Arion / Pierre Verany PV 797081) *

Louis Vierne Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output was Organ (music), organ music, including six ...

: Quintet with piano Op. 42; String Quartet Op. 12 -

, piano (Arion / Pierre Verany PV 700011) *

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

: Quartet D.810 (posthumous opus) '' Death and the Maiden''; Quartet D703 (posthumous opus) ''Quartettsatz'' (Forlane 16764) *

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

: Quartet N 4, Quartet N 6 (Arion / Pierre Verany PV 799022) * Georges Enesco: Quartet Op. 22 N 1 and 2 ( CPO LC.8492) *

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostak ...

: Quartet N 1 op.49, Quartet N 7, Op. 108, Piano Quintet Op. 53 ( Pascal Gallet piano (Fontmorigny 0602) *

Claude Debussy Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...

: Quartet Op. 10;

Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ...

: Quartet in F (Forlane UCD 16521 *

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, Music theory, music theorist, Folkloristics, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian folk music, Moravian and other Slavs, Slavic music, includin ...

, Quartet n° 2 "Lettres intimes"; Enesco: Quartet Op. 22 N 2,

, Quatuor Op. 96 "American" (Forlane UCD 16538) *

Boccherini Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and '' galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classic ...

: Quintets with flute;

Joseph Martin Kraus Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Holy Roman Empire. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm. He has been ...

: Quintet with flute (Aurèle Nicolet, flute) (Novalis 150082-2) * Serge Nigg: Quartet;

Michel Philippot Michel Paul Philippot (2 February 1925 – 28 July 1996) was a French composer, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator. Life Philippot was born in Verzy. His studies of mathematics were interrupted by World War II, aft ...

, Quartet N 2; Philippe Hersant, Quartet N 1 (REM) —

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* Max d'Ollone: Piano Trio in A minor, Piano Quartet in E minor, Quartet in D major (Arion/Pierre Verany PV 799061) *

: Quartet N 1, N 2 (June 1986, ENY-CD-3450) *

Antonio Soler Antonio Soler may refer to: *Antonio Soler (composer) Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre (Priesthood in the Catholic Church, 'Father', in the religious sense) Antonio Soler, known in Catalan language, Catalan a ...

: Quartet N 3; Martinez: Quartet N. 1, N. 2; Roger: Blanca Quartet (Ensayo ENY-CD-2206) *

Charles Chaynes Charles Augustin Chaynes (11 July 1925 – 24 June 2016) was a French composer. Biography Chaynes was born in Toulouse in 1925. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier. In 1951 he won the Prix de Rome wi ...

: String Quartet (''Musique Française d’Aujourd’hui'' series, Radio-France/MFA 216024) *

: ''Variations sur cinq thèmes de Georges Brassens pour guitare et quatuor à cordes'' (Auvidis AV 4731).

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