CLASSICA FRANCESE

DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. Ceysson). CRAS Quintet for Flute, Harp, Violin, Viola, and Cello. JOLIVET Chant de linos & • Anette Maiburg (fl); Alexandra Cravero (voc); Emmanuel Ceysson (hp); Karina Buschinger (vn); Wen Xiao Zheng (va); Guido Schiefen (vc); Mathias Haus (vib, xyl) • MDG 910 1825 6 (SACD:76:45) & songs by LAI, GLANZBERG, MAITRIER, AURIC, BREL, BARBARA, LEGRAND Entitled Classica Francese , this is the French entry in a series of discs, each focused on music of a particular nationality, for a project organized for MDG by the excellent German flutist Anette Maiburg. (Flutists, so often, seem to be the driving force behind chamber music ventures.) It intersperses nine 20th-century French chansons among four standard 20th-century classical selections for a chamber ensemble featuring the flute. I find the performances superlatively good, the recorded sound truly stunning, the program