KARACHI: Traditional music aficionados from all over the Metropolis converged at the patio of Alliance Française (French Cultural Centre – AFK) here.
The occasion was a classical music concert by Vitrail Quintet that was held jointly by AFK & French diplomatic mission.
The concert was part of the Classical Music Without Borders – unique international concert series featuring musicians from a host of countries all over the globe including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia & USA.
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Four Centuries of French Music for Brass
The VITRAIL Brass Quintet
(Paris – Reims)
Jean-Baptiste LULLY (1632-1687) : Grande Entrée and two Marches
1 Grande Entrée
2 Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs
3 Marche guerrière
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (1683-1764) : Suite
1 Allemande
2 Sarabande
3 Les Cyclopes
Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918) : Suite
1 Golliwogg’s cake walk (from Children’s Corner)
2 The girl with the flaxen hair
3 Le Petit Nègre
George BARBOTEU (1924-2006) : Chansonneries
Joseph REYNAUD (18..-1887) : “Merle et Pinson” (“Blackbird and Chaffinch”)
George BIZET (1838-1875) : Suite from Carmen
1 Aragonaise
2 Habanera
3 « Nous sommes la garde montante » (children’s choir)
4 Aria et Séguedille
5 Duo d’amour
6 Chant du Toréador
Jean-Baptiste Arnold & Rémy Dintrich, Trompettes
Gérard Tremlet, Cor
Jean-Luc Sauvage, Trombone
Marc Lefèvre, Tuba
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VITRAIL QUINTET: It was in 1988 that five musicians, passionate about chamber music founded the Vitrail Brass Quintet. Thus trumpet player Eric Gouillard and tuba player Marc Lefevre of the Orchester de la Garde Républicaine in Paris, trombonist Jean-Luc Sauvage of the Orchester Colonne de Paris, join trumpet player Rémy Dintrich and horn player Gérard Tremlet. They are all members of the Grand Théâtre de Reims. A few years later Jean-Baptiste Arnold takes over from Eric Gouillard. The Vitrail set was quickly approved by the French Ministry of Culture, the Champagne-Ardenne Region and the departments of Marne and Aisne. Since the creation of the Vitrail Quintet, the musicians have successfully given several hundreds of concerts and masterclasses in the Champagne-Ardenne region, in France and during many tours abroad: Tunisia, Poland, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Vietnam, Slovakia, Greece, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, etc. The quintet takes its name from a brass piece by George Delerue, “Stained Glass”.
