Neoclassicism

Last Night of the Proms

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell" (Instrumental Version)

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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

Cuba!

Guitar Sonata: II. Variaciones

Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa
April 2011

Maurice Ravel - Miroirs - III. Une barque sur l'océan

La Pastorale d'été d'Arthur Honegger, enregistrée par l'Orchestre de la Suisse romande et Fabio Luisi pour Cascavelle (2001).

Arthur Honegger - Pastorale d'été

Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano

Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19

Brasileiro - Villa-Lobos & Friends

Saudades das Selvas Brasilieras No. 2

Obrigado Brazil

Dansa brasileira

French Music for Bassoon

Sonatine pour flûte et basson: I. Modéré sans lenteur

Dag Wiren: Serenade For String

Serenade For Strings, Op.1

Disc 1 - 01 - Igor Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring I. The Adoration Of The Earth Introduction

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, Act 1: Dance of the Knights

Milhaud: Scaramouche: 3. Brazileira

3. Brazileira

39'45 Vol. 2

Concerto For Chamber Orchestra: II. Andante sostenuto

In Circles

Siete canciones populares españolas: No. 5 Nana

Piano Book

Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2: II. Danza de la moza donosa

Brazilian Music

Ritmata

Arthur Berger: The Complete Orchestral Music

Ideas of Order

Aranjuez

Musique de cour d'après Robert de Visée: VIII. Finale

Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie per liuto, Suite No. 3, P. 172: I. Italiana. Andantino

Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances, Suite III, P. 172: I. Italiana (Anonymous)

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