Henri Demarquette

Pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell and cellist Henri Demarquette find common ground between Philip Glass and Rachmaninov in this release that revels in both composers passion for sonic storytelling. Presenting a program of personal, dramatic and spiritual music, Mosell and Demarquette perform these selections with intimate ardor.

One of the most brilliant cellists of his generation, Henri Demarquette’s career is intimately linked to contemporary music: the creator or dedicatee of numerous works, he is one of the favourite interpreters of contemporary composers.

One of the most brilliant cellists of his generation, Henri Demarquette’s career is intimately linked to contemporary music: the creator or dedicatee of numerous works, he is one of the favourite interpreters of contemporary composers.

Timpani is proud to have the greater part of the recordings of concertante works with one of the finest French cellists, Henri Demarquette. Disliking recital discs, he has always declared himself present for championing works from the French repertory that have never or have rarely been played, giving first recordings of La Legende by Cras, Rhapsodie by Ropartz, Poème romanesque by Gaubert, Introït, Recit Conge by Schmitt. And he has found in Jacques Mercier, Marc Soustrot and others, and in orchestras such as those of Luxembourg and Lorraine, musicians fully attentive to the inflexions of his bow.

After being awarded the Prix de Rome in 1897, Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) began to compose vast works for cello and orchestra. These testify to a culture both Germanic and French which allows him to make the link between the works of Richard Strauss – whom he met in Munich – and Ernest Chausson.

Pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell and cellist Henri Demarquette find common ground between Philip Glass and Rachmoninov in this release that revels in both composers passion for sonic storytelling. Presenting a program of personal, dramatic and spiritual music, Mosell and Demarquette perform these selections with intimate ardor.

Vocello… A contraction of ‘voce’ and ‘cello’, vocello is a word invented by Henri Demarquette, which is not yet to be found in the dictionary. It designates the unprecedented encounter of an a cappella chorus and solo cello, an encounter that, since 2013, has given rise to a new repertoire, as only a temperament as imaginative and unbridled as Henri Demarquette’s could conceive.

European minimalism: The trio that combines the clarinet with the piano and the cello forms a set with powerful and multiple expressive qualities that has seduced composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell and cellist Henri Demarquette find common ground between Philip Glass and Rachmoninov in this release that revels in both composers passion for sonic storytelling. Presenting a program of personal, dramatic and spiritual music, Mosell and Demarquette perform these selections with intimate ardor.