Jean Fournier Plays Chamber and Concerto Works

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Jean Fournier (1911-2003) was a French violinist and professor of classical music. Fournier’s intonation, while lean, was gentle on the ear. He made an impressive career for himself. He was a soloist with some of the great French orchestras as well as with celebrated international ones. Concert tours took him to many of Europe’s centres of culture (Belgium, Germany, England, Italy, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Spain), as well as to North and South Africa, India and the Far East. In addition to his solo work, Fournier was above all an excellent chamber musician. Together with his wife, the French pianist Ginette Doyen (1921-2002), he performed duets for violin and piano. In the 1950s he founded a brilliant piano trio together with the Italian cellist Antonio Janigro (1918-1989) and the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda (1927-2019). In addition to his active concert activities Jean Fournier also made many recordings. This 10-album compilation is testament to the violinist’s diversity. It includes recordings such as the Sonatina No. 5 op. 32/1 for solo violin by Jean Martinon (1910-1976), and of course numerous duet works (many of them with his wife Ginette Doyen), piano trios (usually together with his trio partners Antonio Janigro and Paul Badura-Skoda) and violin concertos by Mozart or the Double Concerto op. 102 by Johannes Brahms with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra under Milan Horvat (Mozart) and Hermann Scherchen (Brahms).


Product Description:


  • Release Date: March 04, 2022


  • Catalog Number: PH22003


  • UPC: 881488220032


  • Label: Hänssler & Profil


  • Number of Discs: 10


  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven


  • Conductor: Hermann Scherchen


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Orchestra


  • Performer: Jean Fournier



Works:


  1. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12/1

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  2. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12/2

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  3. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 12/3

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  4. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  5. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring"

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  6. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30/1

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  7. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30/2

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  8. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30/3

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  9. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47, "Kreutzer"

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  10. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Mjor, Op. 96

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  11. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, KV 216

    Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Orchestra

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin)

    Conductor: Milan Horvat


  12. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A Major, KV 219 "Turkish"

    Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Orchestra

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin)

    Conductor: Milan Horvat


  13. Trio for Piano and Strings in G Major, KV 564

    Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Antonio Janigro (Cello), Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)


  14. Trio for Piano and Strings in E Major, KV 542

    Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Antonio Janigro (Cello), Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)


  15. Encore Pieces for Violin and Piano (14)

    Composer: Various

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), André Collard (Piano)


  16. Suite Italienne "Pulcinella"

    Composer: Igor Stravinsky

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), André Collard (Piano)


  17. Baal Shem Suite, II. Nigun

    Composer: Ernest Bloch

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), André Collard (Piano)


  18. Sonatine No. 5 op. 32, No. 1

    Composer: Jean Martinon

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin)


  19. Pieces (4), Op. 17

    Composer: Josef Suk

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), André Collard (Piano)


  20. Violin Sonata in G minor

    Composer: Claude Debussy

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  21. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major

    Composer: Gabriel Fauré

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  22. Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor

    Composer: Gabriel Fauré

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Ginette Doyen (Piano)


  23. Trio for Piano and Strings in B-Flat Major, Op. 97 "Archduke"

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Antonio Janigro (Cello), Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)


  24. Trio for Piano and Strings in D Major, Hob. XV:16

    Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Antonio Janigro (Cello), Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)


  25. Trio for Piano and Strings in G Major, Hob. XV:25

    Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Antonio Janigro (Cello), Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)


  26. Trio No. 1 for Piano and Strings in B-Flat Major, D. 898

    Composer: Franz Schubert

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Antonio Janigro (Cello), Paul Badura-Skoda (Piano)


  27. Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 102

    Composer: Johannes Brahms

    Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Orchestra

    Performer: Jean Fournier (Violin), Antonio Janigro (Cello)

    Conductor: Hermann Scherchen