The latest album from the prolific 25-year-old trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary features a collection of winter-themed popular songs by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Chaplin, and Hugh Martin alongside short movements from the classical repertoire by Dvořák, Rossini, Falla, Kreisler, Bach, and Vivaldi. Winter Gardens, which features the Paris Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sascha Goetzel, also features a work new to the WFMT library, Rapsodia latina by Uruguayan composer Efrain Oscher (b. 1974). Following the example of Chet Baker, Renaudin-Vary sings the first verse of a wistful song originally performed by Frank Sinatra “Everything Happens to Me” by Tom Adair and Matt Dennis.
“The album is like an advent calendar with tiny windows that you open up to find little surprises inside: pieces in various styles and from various eras and with the sounds of different instruments…” says Renaudin Vary.
