Water Music, Suite in D Major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe (by George Frideric Handel)

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

Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 In D Flat Major - Allegro

The Kodály String Duo (Sebastian Leczky - violin, Marcel Leczky - cello) plays the „Crab Canon“ from the Musical Offering BWV 1079 by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Wiener Stephansdom on their „Bach & Sons-cycle (Bach & Söhne-Zyklus)“ Season I.

J.S. Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Canon à 2)

Berceuse in D Flat Major, Op. 57

French Suites 1, 2 & 3

French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: III. Sarabande

Romantic Guitar

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90, Poco Allegretto (Arr. for Guitar)

French Suites 4, 5 & 6

French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816: VI. Bourrèe II (Original Version)

Pianist Chris Petrie. The Inventions and Sinfonias BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).

Invention No. 14 in B-flat major, BWV 785 Johann Sebastian Bach

"Waiting Places" is a Modern Dance show by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, created and performed in Copenhagen in March 2024. In October 2024 it screened as a movie in San Francisco. Daskal wrote and performed the music in collaboration with Betty Nansen Theater (Copenhagen) and dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet. In August 2024 Daskal recorded the original motion picture soundtrack for the movie that became out of the show.

Invention No. 14 in B-flat major, BWV 785 Johann Sebastian Bach

Chris G Petrie