Gerard Jippin

Accompanist Dalton Baldwin began his musical training at the Juilliard School of Music and then went to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he earned his B.Mus. He continued his studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Madeleine Lipatti and in 1954 he began his long and successful partnership with Gérard Souzay. While maintaining his partnership with Souzay, Baldwin began to perform and record on a regular basis with Elly Ameling in 1970.

The magic and mystery of Mexico make a welcome return on this recording, as the expert skills of Gerard Abiton explore Manuel Ponces complete works for guitar. There is a wealth of treasures to be enjoyed here, as Ponces vast career led him to explore a number of different styles. His time in Paris exerted a French influence on his music, heard in the wonderfully lyrical song-without-words motif in the second movement of his Sonata III.

Gerard were one of the leading progressive rock bands from the '80 in Japan together with Novela, Fromage, Pale Acute Moon, Outer Limits or Mugen. They offer a quite good symphonic prog very much in vein of UK or a harder version of Genesis (Trick of the tail era) but with their own twist and with that particular japanese flavour , musicaly speaking that many bands from '80 from this country had…

« En 1841, dans son discours de réception à l’Académie française, Victor Hugo avait évoqué la “populace” pour désigner le peuple des quartiers pauvres de Paris. Vinçard ayant vigoureusement protesté dans un article de La Ruche populaire, Hugo fut très embarrassé. Il prit conscience à ce moment-là qu’il avait des lecteurs dans les milieux populaires et que ceux-ci se sentaient humiliés par son vocabulaire dévalorisant. Progressivement le mot “misérable”, qu’il utilisait au début de ses romans pour décrire les criminels, changea de sens et désigna le petit peuple des malheureux. …