Marie Flore Tout Dit

Named after the 18th-century dance-style movement ‘Badinerie’, this beautiful new album from flautist Julien Beaudiment and harpist Marie Pierre Langlamet offers a diverse span of repertoire, with a rich collection of works from across the centuries.

Recordings that include strings quartets by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern are common, but an album that includes music for quartet and voice by each of them is a rarity. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, with a part for soprano in its third and fourth movements, is standard repertoire, but the version of Berg's Lyric Suite with a vocal part in the final movement is highly unusual, and Webern's bagatelle with voice, an unpublished movement apparently once intended to be part of the Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, receives what is probably its first recording. Novelty aside, the high standards of these performances make this a formidable release. Founded just before the turn of the millennium, Quatuor Diotima plays with the assurance and mutual understanding of a seasoned ensemble. The quartet has a lean, clean sound and the ensemble is immaculate, playing with exquisite expressiveness, an ideal combination for this repertoire.

Marie Trautmann-Jaëll (1846 - 1925) was a renowned pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Born in Steinseltz, a small village in Alsace north of Strasbourg, France, Marie Trautmann commenced piano lessons at the age of six, and by nine was concertizing throughout France, Germany, and Switzerland.
At sixteen, after several years of study with the respected pianist and teacher, Heinrich Herz, she won the coveted First Prize at the Paris Conservatoire.
In 1866, Marie Trautmann married pianist Alfred Jaëll. They toured Europe, performing solos, duos, and their own compositions, as well as works by contemporary masters. In 1871, Madame Jaëll's first piano pieces were published. Some eighty compositions followed ………

Marie Trautmann-Jaëll (1846 - 1925) was a renowned pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Born in Steinseltz, a small village in Alsace north of Strasbourg, France, Marie Trautmann commenced piano lessons at the age of six, and by nine was concertizing throughout France, Germany, and Switzerland.
At sixteen, after several years of study with the respected pianist and teacher, Heinrich Herz, she won the coveted First Prize at the Paris Conservatoire.
In 1866, Marie Trautmann married pianist Alfred Jaëll. They toured Europe, performing solos, duos, and their own compositions, as well as works by contemporary masters. In 1871, Madame Jaëll's first piano pieces were published. Some eighty compositions followed ………