Rhené-Baton

René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton (5 September 1879 – 23 September 1940), was a French conductor and composer. Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany. He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area. He also had close relationships with composers of the Breton cultural renaissance, notably Guy Ropartz, Paul Le Flem, Paul Ladmirault and Louis Aubert. A founding member of the Association des Compositeurs Bretons in 1912, he composed many works using a Breton folk idiom. In July 2019 Brilliant Classics released a double CD album dedicated to Rhené-Baton’s chamber music for strings and piano, performed by the Wolferl Trio, which includes three premier recordings of the Violin Sonatas No. 1 and 2, the Suite ancienne, the Cello Sonata and the Piano Trio. Works Symphonic and Operatic *Variations, for piano and orchestra on a theme in the aeolian mode (1904) *Menuet pour Monsieur, frère du roi (1909) *Poème élégiaque, for violon et orchestre (1924) *Danses paysannes (1924) *En vacances (1924) *Pour les funérailles d’un marin (1925) *Fantaisie orientale, for violin an