[Le Salon de Musique de Marie-Antoniette; Ambroisie AM179 (2009)]
On August 27, 2009 AfriClassical posted: “Telegraph: 'Sonata for Flute and Harp' of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges 'is a work of Gallic charm'”. We quoted a review in which Geoffrey Norris of the British newspaper The Telegraph called the CD Le Salon de Musique de Marie-Antoniette “classical CD of the week.”
Three tracks of the CD are devoted to a Sonata for Flute and Harp of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who is profiled at AfriClassical.com. We were unaware of any other recording of the work. Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, Professor of Music, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin is a musicologist who has specialized in the classical compositions of composers of African descent for four decades:
“Yes, this work has not been previously recorded. It betrays a characteristic of Saint-Georges re voice leading, which I solved by the addition of a cello (not an unusual practice of the time). It was thus performed by Anthony Elliott (cello), D. Antoinette Handy (flute), and Geneva Southall (piano) at our Minneapolis conference in 1975.
Dominique”
Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Le Salon de Musique de Marie-Antoniette
Ambroisie AM179 (2009)
Sandrine Chatron, Harp
Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma
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