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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

Someone To Watch Over Me - George Gershwin arr. Artis Wodehouse

The Gift of Soothing Piano

Johann Sebastian Bach – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846

Lisas waltz.m4a

Mozart Allegro

Symphony No. 40 In G Minor I. Allegro K550

Epic Orchestra

1812 Overture Op. 49

Classical Christmas: Greatest Orchestral Holiday Classics

The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene XV: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

A Concert playlist dedicated to the music of women composers performed by Shelter Music Boston Ensemble.

Location: Lowell Transitional Living Center, Lowell, MA

Germaine Tailleferre, String Quartet Modéré

Icon: Vernon Handley

2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: No. 1, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op.13 "Pathetique": II. Adagio cantabile

Piano Music to Relieve Headaches

Sonatine, M. 40: II. Mouvement de menuet (D Flat Major)

Someone To Watch Over Me - George Gershwin arr. Artis Wodehouse

Chris N. Hodgman