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Composer: Théodore Gouvy
- Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 61
- Duets, Op. 34
- Duets, Op. 50
Jean-Pierre Wallez, violin
François-Joël Thiollier, piano
Date: 2003
Label: K617
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Théodore Gouvy (3 July 1819 – 21 April 1898) was a French/German composer. He studied music mostly in private courses in Paris and Berlin. Drawn toward instrumental music rather than opera, Gouvy chose to live the last third of his life almost entirely in Germany where he felt more appreciated. He wrote twenty-four compositions for full orchestra, including nine symphonies, as well as overtures and variations. Chamber music also comprises a large portion of Gouvy's work, as well as many melodies, lieder and five dramatic cantatas. During his lifetime, his compositions were held in high regard.
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Jean-Pierre Wallez (born 18 March 1939 in Lille) is a French violinist and conductor. He graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, and won the highest prize of the 1960 Paganini Competition in Genoa. He was the first solo-violin of the Orchestre de Paris from 1975 to 1977, and leader of the Ensemble Instrumental de France from 1968 to 1983. Wallez studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux and then with Sergiu Celibidache, and was the musical director of the Örebro Chamber Orchestra in Sweden from 1992 to 1995. He recorded for Decca, EMI, CBS, Erato, Forlane, and Ades.
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François-Joël Thiollier (born 1943 in Paris) is a French-American classical pianist. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Robert Casadesus, and at the Juilliard School in New York under Sascha Gorodnitzki. He has won major prizes at international music competitions, including the 1964 Busoni Competition, the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition and the 1968 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Thiollier has concertised very widely in over 40 countries, and has made a large number of well-received recordings, including the complete piano works of Rachmaninoff (two traversals), Debussy, Ravel and Gershwin.
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