Baroque violinist Sophie de Bardonnèche pays tribute to French female composers of the 18th century. The centerpiece works are three violin sonatas of Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, one of which is unpublished. No fewer than ten female composers — most new to the WFMT library – are represented in this programme of sonatas, overtures and dances devised by de …
Destinées
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Miniatures by various 18th century women composers
Mademoiselle Duval: Ballet, “Les Génies”
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Violin Sonata II in A minor
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Violin Sonata No. 5 in A minor
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Prelude in A minor
Stravinsky Chamber Works
Grammy Award-winning Conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan leads an ensemble of outstanding young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School on this new recording. Since 2002, the Academy and The Juilliard School, both international leaders in their field, have enjoyed collaborations in performances, exchanges and recordings. In this project, Hannigan conducts this transatlantic group in a …
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Music composed by Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in E-flat, Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38
Wind Octet
Ragtime
Septet, K080
“Three Little Songs: Recollections of Childhood,” K017
“Three Japanese Lyrics,” K016
“Two Poems of Balmont,” K013
Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3
Lars Vogt, who died at age 51, founded the Spannungen festival for chamber music in Heimbach, NRW, Germany. Vogt gave his last concert there, playing Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 3 with Christian Tetzlaff, Barbara Buntrock and Tanja Tetzlaff in June 2022. Vogt had attempted to record the Piano Quartets No. 2 and 3, but only the No.2 was complete at …
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Réveiller
Following their acclaimed recordings of the complete Brahms and Beethoven sonatas, Bella Hristova and Michael Houstoun turn to French works for violin and piano, featuring sonatas by Ravel, Poulenc, and Fauré. Acclaimed as a player with impressive power, passion, and control, a beautiful sound, and a compelling command of her instrument, violinist Bella Hristova is an ardent proponent of contemporary …
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Maurice Ravel: “Sonate posthume”
Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2
Francis Poulenc: Violin Sonata
Gabriel Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13
Seven
Award-winning Spanish cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios returns with Seven, which features seven of her most recent chamber works, all in world-premiere recordings. Alongside works for solo cello or cello and piano, this recording features her Piano Quintet, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra commission for the distinctive combination of clarinet, violin, viola and cello. At the heart of this collection lies …
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All works composed by Andrea Casarrubios
SEVEN
Armadura
24 Mozas
Mensajes del agua
Silbo
Afilador
Piano Quintet
Cello Dreams
In a delightful program of lullabies and gentle serenades, husband and wife duo cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianist Pascal Amoyel have gathered a collection of some of the most beloved melodies that touch, console, comfort, and soothe. These are at once a marvelous entry point to listening to music for the very young, and a treat for all music lovers. …
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Frank Bridge: “Berceuse”
Johannes Brahms: “Wiegenlied” (Lullaby), Op. 49, No. 4
Antonín Dvořák: “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” Op. 55, No. 4
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 38, No. 1, “Berceuse”
Robert Schumann: “Albumblätter,” Op. 124, No. 6, “Wiegenliedchen”
Franz Schubert: “Schwanengesang,” D 957, No. 4, “Ständchen: Leise flehen meine Lieder”
Gabriel Fauré: “Berceuse,” Op. 16
Manuel de Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs, No. 5, “Nana (Berceuse)”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Pieces, Op. 72, No. 2, “Berceuse”
Maurice Ravel: “Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré”
Reinhold Glière: Duets, Op. 39, #3, “Cradle Song”
Franz Schubert: Song, “Wiegenlied (Mille cherubini in coro),” D 498
Gabriel Fauré: “Après un rêve,” Op. 7, No. 1
Corelli: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
In her 24th release for Cedille Records, violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Arcangelo Corelli’s 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, with early music specialists David Schrader, John Mark Rozendaal, and Brandon Acker. Known for her dynamic range and versatility, Pine revisits the Baroque period, highlighting Corelli’s influential yet seldom performed sonatas. The ensemble performs on a diverse collection of period instruments—Schrader …
Beethoven: The Middle Quartets
Following their award-winning first installment of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Caldidore String Quartet presents the Middle Quartets on a three-disc set. Winners of top prizes at major competitions including the n2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition, the ensemble has distinguished itself as one of the foremost interpreters of a vast repertory since they were founded in 2010 at the …
Sarahbanda
Berlin Philharmonic French hornist Sarah Willis’s three-album Mozart y Mambo project fused Mozart with Cuban rhythms. Besides recording all of Mozart’s horn concertos, the project also experimented with the French horn joining the traditional Cuban band mix of saxophone and rhythm section. Willis loved this grouping so much that she subsequently formed the Sarahbanda with some of Cuba’s most talented …
Impressions Parisiennes
Quatuor Van Kuijk explores treasures by Fauré, Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Poulenc that were originally composed for piano or voice. The program includes Debussy’s Petite Suite pour piano à quatre mains, Ravel’s famous Pavane pour une infante défunte and well-known songs by Poulenc, Fauré and Satie in transcriptions made especially for this recording by Van Kuijk violist Emmanuel François and …
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Francis Poulenc: Five songs arr. for String Quartet
Gabriel Fauré: Four songs arr. for String Quartet
Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess arr. for String Quartet
Erik Satie: “Je te veux” arr. for String Quartet
Claude Debussy: Petite Suite arr. for String Quartet
Baptiste Trotignon: CES MESSIEURS
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