Sandrine Cantoreggi & Sheila Arnold: Mel Bonis: Entre Soir et Matin [2CD]

Współczesna Muzyka Klasyczna / Kameralistyka
premiera polska: 2024-02-09
opakowanie: Jewelcaseowe etui
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Editor's info:
A late discovery of a most important female composer from France for the musical world. Melanie Helene Bonis, known by her artistic pseudonym Mel Bonis (21 January 1858 - 18 March 1937), was a Romantic composer in the late years of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.
Her ouevre includes more than 300 pieces: music for piano, chamber music in various formats, organ pieces, Lieder, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. Her teachers at the Paris Conservatoire included Cesar Franck, Ernest Guiraud and Auguste Bazille.
To her contemporaries surprise, Mel Bonis succeeded in the Paris society and was well regarded by her male composer fellows Camille Saint-Saens, her fellow student Claude Debussy and others. Some of her works have been officially published.
Sheila Arnold and Sandrine Cantoreggi initiated this album and discovered not only a piece - Soir - never played or was registered before, but kept her choice also mainly to their own instruments Violin and Fortepiano (on a Bluethner Fortepiano 1871). Two Trios (one with Cello, the other with flute) embrace the program of small short pieces for Violin and Fortepiano, highlighting in particular the larger Violin Sonata, Op. 112.
"Music speaks to me about what I want, but then it withholds it. It kindles my desires and makes me feel the futility of everything on this earth. Oh! Words are so empty when they try to express all of these things! It's such a horrible longing." (Mel Bonis)

Pizzicato, 22-10-2023
"Sandrine Cantoreggi and Sheila Arnold make sensuously audible what is in this music. This is real inspiration, with a great sense for sound development, for accentuation and inner tension. One can therefore only recommend this double album, which presents the music of Mel Bonis in a rarely heard quality, inner liveliness and empathy."

muzycy:
Sandrine Cantoreggi (violin)
Gustav Rivinius (cello)
Sheila Arnold (piano)
Michael Faust (flute)

utwory:
CD1:
01. Soir, for Piano Trio, Op. unknown (World Première Recording) 04:51
02. Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 114 (1926): 1. Jour de fête - Modéré 03:51
03. Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 114 (1926): 2. Sous la ramée – Poco lento 08:33
04. Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 114 (1926): 3. Cortège champêtre – Allegro non troppo 04:20
05. Three Pieces for / Trois pièces pour violon et piano (1910): 1. Andante religioso - Sostenuto (à Mademoiselle Sophie Bardot) 02:57
06. Three Pieces for / Trois pièces pour violon et piano (1910): 2. Allegretto - Allegretto non troppo (à Monsieur Raphaël Kellert) 02:50
07. Three Pieces for / Trois pièces pour violon et piano (1910): 3. Largo - (à Monsieur Paulin Gaillard) 03:40
08. Suite Orientale for Piano Trio / pour violon, violoncelle et piano, Op. 48 (1900): 1. Prélude 03:01
09. Suite Orientale for Piano Trio / pour violon, violoncelle et piano, Op. 48 (1900): 2. Danse d’Almées 03:08
10. Suite Orientale for Piano Trio / pour violon, violoncelle et piano, Op. 48 (1900): 3. Ronde de Nuit 06:55

CD2:
01. Suite for Flute, Violin and Piano / en Trio pour flûte, violon et piano, Op. 59 (1903): 1. Sérénade - Allegretto (à Monsieur L.C. Malherbe) 02:48
02. Suite for Flute, Violin and Piano / en Trio pour flûte, violon et piano, Op. 59 (1903): 2. Pastorale - Andantino comodo 03:34
03. Suite for Flute, Violin and Piano / en Trio pour flûte, violon et piano, Op. 59 (1903): 3. Scherzo – Allegro con moto 03:30
04. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F sharp Minor / Sonate pour violon et piano en fa dièse mineur, op. 112 (ca. 1922): I. Moderato 05:56
05. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F sharp Minor / Sonate pour violon et piano en fa dièse mineur, op. 112 (ca. 1922): II. Presto 03:23
06. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F sharp Minor / Sonate pour violon et piano en fa dièse mineur, op. 112 (ca. 1922): III. Lento 07:07
07. Sonata for Violin and Piano in F sharp Minor / Sonate pour violon et piano en fa dièse mineur, op. 112 (ca. 1922): IV. Con moto 06:54
08. Sérénade for Violin and Piano / pour violon et piano, Op. 46 (1910): Allegretto - à Mademoiselle Marguerite Chaigneau 04:00
09. Soir – Matin for Piano Trio / pour violon, violoncelle et piano, Op. 76 (1907): Soir - Andante cantabile (à Mademoiselle Foltzer) 04:06
10. Soir – Matin for Piano Trio / pour violon, violoncelle et piano, Op. 76 (1907): Matin - Andantino (au Trio Chaigneau) 03:01

wydano: 10 November 2023
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