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CÉLINY CHAILLEY-RICHEZ (LILLE, FRANCE, MARCH 15, 1884 – PARIS, FRANCE, SEPTEMBER 9, 1973)

Chailley-Richez studied piano at the conservatory in her hometown from 1894 and changed the following year at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she was a student of Raoul Pugno. In 1898 she received the first prize in piano. In 1908 she met the violinist Marcel Chailley whom she married in the same year. Together they performed with the Orchester Pasdeloup, the Orchester Colonne and the Orchester Lamoureux as well as chamber musicians and founded their own quartet. Since 1914, the Chailleys have been giving summer courses in their home in Seignelay, which at times included students from almost twenty nations, including Ivry Gitlis , Lola Bobesco and Denise Soriano . Around 1925 Marcel Chailly retired from concert activities and became a teacher at the Ecole Normale de Musique, while his wife strengthened her collaboration with George Enescu, with whom her husband had been friends for a long time. From April 1932 she played all sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven with Enescu in private soirees. After her husband’s death in 1936, Chailley-Richez became even closer to Enescu, forming a friendship with Maria Cantacuzino, whom he married in 1937. In September 1939, she began a concert tour with Enescu, which had to be canceled due to Enescu’s illness. Enescu went to Romania with his wife, while Chailley-Richez returned to Paris and taught there for a year at the conservatory. She also gave concerts and, with the support of Denyse Favareille, a wealthy landowner, founded a quintet made only of women, which gave nine concerts between 1941 and 1943. When Enescu came to Paris after the Second World War, they both started their concert activities again, including in 1949 a recording of Enescu’s third sonata “dans le caractère populaire roumain”, which was awarded a prize by the Académie du disque Charles Cros. In the Decca Records studios in 1953, under Enescu’s direction, he recorded all works for keyboard instruments and orchestra, plus the two concertos BWV 1044 and 1057 and the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach. The solo parts played alongside Chailley-Richez Jean-Jacques Painchaud , Françoise Le Gonidec and Yvette Grimaud, also participated in the flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Gaston Crunelle and the violinist Christian Ferras. In the early 1960s, Chailley-Richez assisted Romeo Draghici in setting up the Enescu Museum in Bucharest, to which she left all of Enescu’s records. In 1971 she became a member of the Les Amis d’Enesco Foundation in Paris. There were several other musicians in her family: her maternal uncle was the conductor Félix Galle, whose daughter Yvonne Gall became known as an opera singer. Her own son Jacques Chailley was a musicologist and composer, her daughter Marie-Thérèse Chailley-Guiard a singer and music educator.

TRACKLIST

1. Concerto for Three Pianos in C Major, BWV 1064 I. Adagio (Bach)  Françoise Le Gonidec (piano), Jean-Jacques Painchaud (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
2. Concerto for Three Pianos in C Major, BWV 1064 II. Allegro (Bach) Françoise Le Gonidec (piano), Jean-Jacques Painchaud (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
3. Concerto for Three Pianos in C Major, BWV 1064 III. Allegro (Bach) Françoise Le Gonidec (piano), Jean-Jacques Painchaud (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
4. Concerto for Three Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 I. (Bach) Françoise Le Gonidec (piano), Jean-Jacques Painchaud (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
5. Concerto for Three Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 II. Alla sicilliana (Bach) Françoise Le Gonidec (piano), Jean-Jacques Painchaud (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
6. Concerto for Three Pianos in D Minor, BWV 1063 III. Allegro (Bach) Françoise Le Gonidec (piano), Jean-Jacques Painchaud (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
7. Concerto for Two Pianos in C Minor, BWV 1062 I. (Bach)  Françoise Le Gonidec (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
8. Concerto for Two Pianos in C Minor, BWV 1062 II. Andante e piano (Bach) Françoise Le Gonidec (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
9. Concerto for Two Pianos in C Minor, BWV 1062 III. Allegro assai (Bach) Françoise Le Gonidec (piano) George Enescu Orchestre Lamoureux
10. Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 I. Allegro (Bach)  George Enescu conductor
11. Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 II. Adagio (Bach) George Enescu conductor
12. Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 III. Allegro (Bach) George Enescu conductor
13. Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 I. (Bach) George Enescu conductor
14. Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 II. Largo (Bach) George Enescu conductor
15. Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 III. Presto (Bach) George Enescu conductor
16. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 1, Äusserst bewegt (Schumann)
17. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 2, Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch (Schumann)
18. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 3, Sehr aufgeregt (Schumann)
19. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 4, Sehr langsam (Schumann)
20. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 5, Sehr lebhaft (Schumann)
21. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 6, Sehr langsam (Schumann)
22. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 7, Sehr rasch (Schumann)
23. Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 8, Schnell und spielend (Schumann)
24. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054 I. (Bach)
25. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054 II. Adagio e piano sempre (Bach)
26. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054 III. Allegro (Bach)
27. Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, FWV 21 Chorale (Franck)
28. Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, FWV 21 Fugue (Franck)
29. Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, FWV 21 Prelude (Franck)