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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

Swan Lake - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake Act Two. No. 14. Scene (Moderato) - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (8D Binaural Sound - Music Therapy)

Soothing Classical Lullabies 2

Claude Debussy : Preludes Book I. L.117 - VIII. La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin

The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.

The melodies of the pieces use deliberate, but mild, dissonances against the harmony, producing a piquant, melancholy effect that matches the performance instructions, which are to play each piece "painfully", "sadly" or "gravely".

Audius Classical Music
https://audius.co/classicalmusic

Best of Satie
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/gymnopedie-no-1-single/847714522

Satie on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0vzKMInu4PzU2Qyi6NgmRK

Satie Album on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Erik-Satie-Essential-Collection/dp/B00J0LBFIG/

Erik Satie - The Essential Collection

Classical Music - The Essential Collection

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Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1

Symphony No.6 op. 45 Movement 2

Battlestar Galactica
This is the music of a popular American science fiction television serial dating from the late 70’s. The music composed by Glenn A. Larson and Stewart Philips sounds a little bit familiar, as it seems somewhat similar to the music written by John Williams for the Star Wars films. Lieutenant Starbuck (Dirk Benedick) and Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch) fought against the ' Cyclons ' (robots looking like humans) and went through lot of fantastic adventures with their ' Vipers '. Henk Ummels selected some fine tunes of the soundtrack music.

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/20777/en

Battlestar Galactica (arr. Henk Ummels) - Glen Larson

   Demo songs regorded by me from internal memory of my Yamaha Arius YDP-S31 digital piano. Plus "Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Movement" hand played MIDI (from opensource), uploaded to the piano.
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The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II, Scene XIV: Waltz of the Flowers

The City of Prague Philharmonic

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