Winter Gardens

November 18, 2024, 6:00 am

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Lucienne Renaudin Vary (Photo: Simon Fowler)

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 as I switch between flugelhorn and piccolo, B♭ and C trumpets,” says Renaudin-Vary.

Playlist

Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs (three songs)
Efraín Oscher: “Rapsodia latina” (complete + 2 excerpts)
Dvorák: “Slavonic Dances,” Op. 72
Bach: Erbarme dich and Badinerie
Chaplin: Swing Little Girl
H Martin: “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Rossini: “Giusto ciel” from The Siege of Corinth
Kreisler: “Miniature Viennese March”
Rodgers: “Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music
Vivaldi: Largo from “The Four Seasons: Winter,” RV. 297