(1997) Claude Gervaise : Danceries (A quatre parties) Dominique Roggen Here the clashing miscellany of

Here the clashing miscellany of the previous movements congeals into an expressive monologue

« The Revenge » - a choral ballad written for the Leeds Festival – remained an absolute favourite with British choirs for many years

Various interpretations of the oboe concerto were compared in this broadcast

A student of Boris Pergamenchikov (Altstaedt was one of the last to profit from his mastery)

profound knowledge of composition

(1997) Claude Gervaise : Danceries (A quatre parties) Dominique Roggen Here the clashing miscellany ofAlongside Italy's prolific but also highly inspired, sometimes to the point of grandiloquence, a less rhetorical but more playful musical genre was developing in France: the air de danse. The melodic theme of each dance was commonly called timbre. These airs appeared in a variety of forms, depending on the audience for which they were intended: sometimes they were called harmonized danse de cour, sometimes dancerie (the term used by Claude Gervaise).