F. Mendelssohn - Concerto for Violin / Piano & Strings in D minor - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Chapelle de Guillaume Tell 2. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Au Lac de Wallenstadt 3. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Pastorale 4. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Au Bord D'une Source 5. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Orage 6. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Vallée D'obermann 7. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Épilogue 8. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Le Mal Du Pays 9. Années de Pèlerinage, 1st Year ('Suisse'), Suite for Piano, S. 160 (LW A159) Les Cloches de Genève

Album Tracks 1. Piano Works Prelude No. 1 2. Piano Works Fugue No. 1 3. Piano Works Prelude No. 2 4. Piano Works Fugue No. 2 5. Piano Works Prelude No. 3 6. Piano Works Fugue No. 3 7. Piano Works Prelude No. 4 8. Piano Works Fugue No. 4 9. Piano Works Prelude No. 5 10. Piano Works Fugue No. 5 11. Piano Works Prelude No. 6 12. Piano Works Fugue No. 6 13. Piano Works Caprice No. 1 in a Minor 14. Piano Works Caprice No. 2 in E Major 15. Piano Works Caprice No. 3 in B Flat minor 16. Piano Works Perpetuum Mobile in C, Op. 119

Each of the works on this recording was either composed by or inspired by a woman. We meet Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) and her Concertino - 'a piece that has accompanied me for years and encapsulates her immense talent', says Mathilde Calderini; Claude Arrieu (1903-90), a pupil of Marguerite Long and Paul Dukas; Mel Bonis (1858-1937); and the young composer Lise Borel (b. 1993), whom Mathilde Calderini commissioned to write a piece entitled Miroir, which she premiered in 2023 with Aurele Marthan, the pianist on this recording and a longstanding artistic partner of hers. Debussy's famous nymph Syrinx and a transcription of his prelude La Fille aux cheveux de lin are also on the programme, as are his Six epigraphes antiques, inspired by the Chansons de Bilitis, named after an (entirely fictional) ancient poetess. Francis Poulenc's Sonata of 1957 is 'probably one of the most beautiful pieces ever written for flute and piano', according to the French flautist. The work was commissioned by the American pianist and philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, who also did a great deal for such composers as Ravel, Stravinsky and Barber. Album Tracks 1. Concertino Pour Flûte Et Piano 2. La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin, Pour Flûte Et Piano 3. Sonate Pour Flûte Et Piano 4. Bilitis Six Épigraphes Antiques 5. Sonatine Pour Flûte Et Piano 6. Syrinx 7. Miroir Pour Flûte Et Piano 8. Sonate Pour Flûte Et Piano