Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet

Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 4, Ständchen

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.

18 - CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Beau Soir, L. 6

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Johannes Brahms   7  FANTASIEN  OPUS 116   no. 4  Intermezzo,  Adagio

This is a live, human performance — no AI tools, MIDI, or post-processing used. Recorded as-is, with natural imperfections.

Melody from Lyric Pieces, op. 47 No. 3 by Edvard Grieg

Child's Play , (  piece for piano and 'cello )

Francesco Paolo Tosti - Ideale

Johann Sebastian Bach - Siciliano from Sonata in E-Flat Major (arr. Robert Pritchard)

Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata K246

From digital album:
Volodja Balzalorsky Live: Romantic Violin Sonatas - Franck, Brahms, Grieg (Live Selection Vol.1) 

(FULL-LENGHT STREAM): Released 15 November 2013 
ORDER on iTunes now available: https://itunes.apple.com/album/romantic-violin-sonatas-live/id729836878

Live recordings from Belgrade, Vienna and Rogaska Slatina 

Volodja Balzalorsky, violin 
Hinko Haas, piano (Franck) 
Christoph Theiler, piano (Brahms, Grieg) 

César Franck (1822-1890): Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major 
Allegro moderato	
Allegro	
Recitativo-Fantasia moderato	
IV. Allegretto poco mosso	



Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata K246

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