Ralph Vaughan Williams  The Lark Ascending

SALES TEXT
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

Gustav Holst, Brook Green Suite, II. Air

Fabrizio_Paterlini_-_Historiette_No_5.mp3

The country is clouded. The trees are losing their leaves. Humans feel a little bit sad and so do I. I call it "angry at myself". No inspiration is all I have. But...at such moments i play exceptional "free", starting with my best friend, the piano, starting with Chaos, completely chaos. At my followers i say: Start with chaos and let your best friend do what must have done. It will be strange but very pleasant at the end. The drawing I made is a kind of art like Mondrian, a Dutch painter who lived from 1872 to 1944. I drew a sperm cell in it to express our dependence on hormones.

In Dutch: Het land is bewolkt. De bomen verliezen hun bladeren. Mensen voelen zich een beetje verdrietig en dat geldt ook voor mij. Ik noem het 'boos op mezelf'. Geen inspiratie is alles wat ik heb. Maar... op zulke momenten speel ik uitzonderlijk 'vrij', te beginnen met mijn beste vriend, de piano, te beginnen met Chaos, volledige chaos. Tegen mijn volgers zeg ik: Begin met chaos en laat je beste vriend doen wat gedaan moet worden. Het zal vreemd zijn maar uiteindelijk zeer aangenaam. De tekening die ik heb gemaakt is een soort kunst zoals Mondriaan, een Nederlandse schilder die van 1872 tot 1944 leefde. Ik heb er een spermacel in getekend om onze afhankelijkheid van hormonen mee uit te drukken.

Angry at myself -with eyes closed- 251019

carrie underwood - temporary home (piano cover)

Little Big Overtures Box

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Overture

Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor

Of Rivers and Tides

Fiona Rüggeberg - Spring Waltz

Classically trained pianist. I enjoy playing not only the traditional repertoire but also pieces from unusual composers.

Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor

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