With this 2nd album on NoMadMusic, the Ellipsos Quartet pays homage to the composer Fernande Decruck, curiously unknown in France, but renowned in the United States. Fernande Decruck wrote many pieces for saxophone and notably for quartet. Her music, very refined and tinged with rhythmic and harmonic audacity, is at the crossroads of the worlds of Ravel, Stravinsky, Gershwin and Debussy.
A world of sound to be discovered, thanks to these unpublished pieces, most of which were published for the first time this year by Billaudot.
“C’est une musique d’un abord très aisé et on a la fausse impression de l’avoir toujours entendue. C’est absolument charmant et on sait combien les quatre membres du quatuor sont talentueux : que de belles sonorités, à la fois chaudes et élégantes. Une grande réussite.”
Thierry Vagne