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01. Concerto pour alto et orchestre en La Majeur
02. Lamento et Allegro energico I. Lamento
03. Lamento et Allegro energico II. Allegro energico
04. Quatuor à cordes No. 2 en Fa Mineur I. Lento misterioso-Allegro
05. Quatuor à cordes No. 2 en Fa Mineur II. Larghetto
06. Quatuor à cordes No. 2 en Fa Mineur III. Scherzo
07. Quatuor à cordes No. 2 en Fa Mineur IV. Allegro
08. Adieu pour orchestre à cordes et alto

Composers
Rogister, Jean (1879-1964)

This CD brings together works composed by Jean Rogister (1879-1964) during World War I like most of his co-religionists, banned by edict of the occupying forces from appearing in public or even from teaching, Rogister did “profit” in one way from the Great War in that he developed a new embryonic vocation. Whole-heartedly adopting the post-Franckian vein, and remaining faithful to traditional tonality, he forged his own musical idiom, partly due to his melodic verve. A century after the end of the war, now that a “new simplicity” is gaining ground, his meditative and melancholy works, shot through here and there by tensions of various kinds, should have no difficulty in appealing to a new listening public.