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Cellist Beatriz Blanco and pianist Federico Bosco follow the success of their first Odradek album with Of Love and War, a sumptuous programme of music by Nadia Boulanger, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Webern, Hindemith and Fauré, featuring mezzo-soprano Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

Of Love and War, partly inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s novel Days and Nights of Love and War, draws parallels between the isolation and pent-up passions of wartime and the experiences of the current pandemic. Much of this repertoire was composed around the time of the First World War, but also embraces broader themes of beginnings and endings, night and day, love and loss. 

Nadia Boulanger is celebrated as a teacher of great composers, but was a composer in her own right; her Three Pieces occupy a similar soundworld to that of Debussy, whose Cello Sonata is at the heart of the programme, and Fauré, whose song Les berceaux we hear in an arrangement for cello and piano. There are works by Webern that show us ‘before and after’ his early lessons with Schoenberg: the Zwei Stücke für Cello und Klavier of 1899, written when Webern was only 16, and the Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 and Cello Sonata, both dating from 1914. The album discovers a softer side to Hindemith in his richly Romantic Three Pieces, Op. 8, and the whole recital is framed by glorious songs by Strauss and Debussy, performed by Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

15 - NADIA BOULANGER - 3 Pieces For Cello And Piano - I. Modere

The Nutcracker - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 8D Binaural Sound

23. Final Waltz and Apotheosis - The Nutcracker - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 8D Binaural Sound (8D Binaural Sound - Music Therapy)

Violin Concerto In D Major, Op. 35, I. Allegro Moderato, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Th is is my piano improvisation, i play on KAWAI VPC1 coupled with VST p piano Ravenscroft 275

Piano Improvisation as an Impression after seeing an operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat)

Charles Gounod - Ballet Music from Faust: 3. Variations du Miroir

Extraits du disque d'Emmanuelle Swiercz "Nocturnes - Chopin"

1 - 01 Frederic Chopin  Trois Nocturnes, Op. 9 - Larghetto En Si Bémol Mineur

Epic Orchestra

1812 Overture Op. 49

Artists: TIberius Klausner, violin; Paul Hatton, violin; Hugh Brown, viola; Robert Battey, cello

J. S. Bach - Chorale Prelude in F Minor arr. Ferruccio Busoni

Chris N. Hodgman