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Plucked’N Dance

Violaine Cochard, Édouard Ferlet

Released
2018
Label
Alpha Classics
Forces
Harpsichord, Piano
Personnel
Violaine Cochard harpsichord, Édouard Ferlet piano

After devoting their first album together to Bach, harpsichordist Violaine Cochard and jazz pianist Édouard Ferlet turned to dance. Plucked’N Dance ranges across countries and centuries, drawing on music by Bartók, Rameau, Purcell, Satie, Mussorgsky and others.

Ferlet wrote new pieces for the duo rather than straightforward transcriptions. Cochard and Ferlet improvise freely within them, and the contrast between their instruments remains central: the harpsichord’s crisp attack meets the greater weight and range of the piano.

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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsBartók, Rameau, José de Nebra, Satie, Purcell, Mussorgsky · classical source works

The classical player has seven videos for eight classical tracks: track 1 carries two recordings because it treats two works, while tracks 4 and 10 carry none because their sources are identified only as an eighteenth-century Italian dance and an anonymous thirteenth-century Turkish dance; tracks 7, 8 and 9 are Ferlet originals and fall outside the classical count.

Jazzed upViolaine Cochard, Édouard Ferlet · 2018
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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Bartok’ N RollBartók: 44 Duos for Two Violins Sz. 98: No. 22 Szunyogtanc (Mosquito Dance) AND No. 32 Maramarosi tanc (Dance from Maramaros) - two independently recordable works at one position
  2. Les cinq sauvagesRameau: Danse des sauvages (Danse du grand calumet de la paix) from Les Indes galantes
  3. Entre cielJosé de Nebra: Seguidilla from the zarzuela Amar y ser amado y la divina Philotea
  4. EnvoutesAnonymous: an Italian dance of the 18th century, unidentified
  5. Danse de profilSatie: Danse de travers No. 2 from Pieces froides
  6. Le bal ethylicPurcell: Hornpipe in E minor, ZT 685
  7. Ombre d’orOriginal composition by Édouard Ferlet
  8. Valse blancheNo source named on the release: an Édouard Ferlet original
  9. Qui-viveNo source named on the release: an Édouard Ferlet original
  10. ReverenceAnonymous: a Turkish dance of the 13th century, unidentified
  11. OppidumMussorgsky: The Old Castle (Il vecchio castello) from Pictures at an Exhibition