Couleurs d’un rêve (Defontaine)
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During Defontaine’s time at the Paris Conservatoire, the Habanera Saxophone Quartet was founded, quickly gaining international recognition through numerous competition wins and awards. Gilles Tressos, a founding member, continues to perform with the ensemble to this day. Defontaine composed Couleurs d’un rêve (Colours of a Dream) for Tressos. This work is warmly romantic and distinctively French in its fluid shapes and imaginative colours, blending and contrasting the rich timbres and textures of the instruments to striking effect.
