Pour Trompette Et Piano-Trumpeter Guy Touvron a former student of Maurice André and acclaimed international soloist was keen to share his love of Gabriel Fauré s music despite the fact that Fauré never composed a single page for Touvron s instrument of choice. He turned to the art of transcription aware of the challenge that awaited him: could Trumpet tone truly render the quiet charm of Fauré s works' This volume of Mélodies Et Pieces Diverses Pour Trompette Et Piano is proof of the project s success. In Guy Touvron s arrangement thefresh clear language of the Cantique de Jean Racine delivers a fullness that does justice to the work s refined classicism. The Clair de lune of Verlaine s verse lengthens its nostalgia-imbued vocal phrases while the Sérénade toscane with its echoes of barcarole evokes a haughty belle who refuses to appear on the balcony. The crushing atmosphere of Spleen the sophisticated contours of Op. 2 No.1 (Dans les ruines d une abbaye based on a Victor Hugo poem) and the enveloping charm of the En prière canticle are all rendered with equal subtlety. The art of transcription makes everything possible.
