The Works

Chopin: Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1

Satie: Barbouillage

Soupirs fanés: Barbouillage

Rutter: 4 Miniatures for Orchestra: No. 3, Lullaby

Bach, JS: French Suite No. 4, BWV 815: I. Allemande

French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 815: I. Allemande

Arvo Pärt: Credo

Da pacem Domine (Version for String Orchestra)

Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 21, Sweet Dreams

Story
🎵 The Singing Mirror
High in the mountains of Arzulea, where the wind speaks in forgotten tongues and the trees whisper secrets of ages past, there existed a relic that no wise man dared name without shuddering: the Singing Mirror.
It was no ordinary mirror. Its surface reflected not faces, but melodies. Whoever approached it did not see their image, but heard a unique song, composed instantly by the mirror's soul. Each note revealed a hidden truth: a buried memory, a lie told, a wish never confessed.

🌑 The Legend of Laira
Laira, a young troubadour from the underground city of Eltur, had heard of the mirror in her grandmother's songs, who said it was forged by the gods of sound and silence. It was said that the mirror sang only once per person, and that its song could heal or destroy.
Driven by a night vision in which her voice broke before a black moon, Laira set out on her journey. She climbed impossible cliffs, crossed rivers that sang in water dialects, and finally reached the mirror's sanctuary: a crystal cavern suspended in the air by tree roots that never touched the ground.

🎶 The Mirror's Song
As she drew closer, the mirror began to vibrate. It emitted not light, but chords. The melody that emerged was a sweet lament, as if the mirror were crying for her. In each measure, Laira heard fragments of her life: her mentor's betrayal, the love she never confessed to her friend Kael, and the fear that had made her flee her destiny as Keeper of the Echoes.
But then, the music changed. It became ascending, luminous, as if the mirror were showing her not only what had been, but what could be. In a final chord, the mirror sang its true name: “Laira of the Seven Timbres, Voice of Rebirth.”

🌠 The Awakening
As the song ended, the mirror shattered into a thousand fragments that floated like stars. Each one embedded itself in the air, forming a constellation that only the singers could see. Laira descended from the mountain with a new voice: one that could reveal truths through song, as the mirror did.

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Sonic Universe

The Singing Mirror III

Valleys And Mountains Suite, Op. 64: III Mount Solitary Adagio-Allegro Bruce Cale.

David Nadien (1926-2014) was one of the major American violinists of the 20th century. Beginning his career as a brilliant prodigy who performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic at the age of 14, he was one of the star pupils of the famed Ivan Galamian. Unanimously regarded by his peers as one of the outstanding violinists of his generation, Nadien rarely performed concerts. Due to his innately introverted and diffident nature and distaste for self-aggrandizement, he preferred to keep a low-key profile and ended up establishing himself as the foremost free-lance commercial violinist in the New York area. Nevertheless, in 1966, he was appointed by Leonard Bernstein to be concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. 
The recorded legacy of Nadien is sparse. Apart from an LP of the Franck and Debussy sonatas (reissued on Biddulph 85012-2), there are no commercial recordings of major classical repertoire. This live recital with Jacques Abram on CD offers an opportunity to hear Nadien in Classical sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, as well as the romantic Franck Sonata. The violinist’s glowing tone and shimmering vibrato with luscious position changes is heard to wonderful effect in these stirring readings. 
The pianist Jacques Abram (1915-98) was a student of David Saperton at the Curtis Institute and Ernest Hutcheson at the Juilliard School, and made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall performing the MacDowell Piano Concerto. Abram also championed a number of British works, premiering the Benjamin Britten's piano concerto and making the work’s first recording, as well as Arthur Benjamin's 1949 Piano Concerto ‘quasi una Fantasia’.


extract 2 MOZART Sonata movt 2

Rutter: 4 Miniatures for Orchestra: No. 3, Lullaby

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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