FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH GOSSEC (1734-1829): 4 hymnes à la Liberté, Chant funèbre sur la mort de Féraud, La Marseillaise, Suite d'aire révolutionnaires (all arr. Lussier), La grande chasse de Chentilli, La bataille, Andante, La chasse d'Hylas et Silvie, Simphonie à 6.

Catalogue Number: 02L039
Label: Atma
Reference: ACD2 2595
Format: CD
Price: $16.98
Description: For a wind band of pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons, we have original works by Gossec, some from the 1770s (the symphony, the chasse, the bataille) and some from the blood-drenched years of the Revolution, the Terror, the Consulate and the Directorate (the hymnes, transcribed from their massive original forces, the Marseillaise and one other Revolutionary air) as well as some transcriptions of Revolutionary airs by Méhul, Gaveaux, Catel and Bécourt. You can almost smell the aristocratic blood in the gutters! Les Jacobins; Mathieu Lussier.