Alain Bancquart, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Alain Meunier

condition (record/cover): NM / NM Gatefold sleeve. Symphonie N°1 / Duo Pour Flûte Et Violoncelle on Erato pairs Alain Bancquart with two front-rank interpreters: Pierre-Yves Artaud on flute and Alain Meunier on cello. The contrast between symphonic mass and chamber intimacy reveals a composer capable of thinking at different scales, equally at home in the cathedral and the cell.

Artaud was already among the flutists most committed to contemporary repertoire; Meunier brought to the cello a singing quality that avant-garde composers often neglected. Bancquart writes for them as someone who knows the hands that will play, calibrating difficulty and breath with precision. The disc testifies to that collaboration between composers and performers that kept French new music vital through decades when audiences remained skeptical.