Raphaela Gromes - Imagination - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Raphaela Gromes has received acclaim for her highly virtuoso, brilliant and passionately expressive cello playing. What also distinguishes this exceptional musician is her enjoyment of the musical treasure hunt. With her last Sony Classical releases, she delighted critics and audiences with world premiere recordings of pieces by Richard Strauss and Julius Klengel. Her InchOffenbachInch album received the Opus Klassik Award 2020. For her new album InchImaginationInch, Raphaela chose imaginative music, music based on stories, on fairy tales. The wide selection includes a waltz from Tchaikovsky's ballet music InchSleeping Beauty,Inch a InchFairy Tale NarrationInch by Robert Schumann, the InchEvening PrayerInch from Humperdinck's popular fairy tale opera InchHansel and GretelInch, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's InchFlight of the BumblebeeInch and other dreamy, magical and highly poetic pieces by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886). InchImaginationInch also presents less-known works by David Popper, Paul Juon, and rarities like InchMärchenstundeInch by the composer Margarete Schweikert, and InchForgotten Fairy TalesInch by the New Yorker Edward McDowell. Most of the pieces are newly arranged by Raphaela's duo-partner Julian Riem for violoncello and piano, but also for piano trio and for complementary harp and saxophone quartet. Raphaela Gromes recorded the arrangements with Julian Riem and musician friends such as Daniels Dodds (violin), Arcis Saxophone Quartet and Anaïs Gaudemard (harp). Raphaela Gromes came up with the idea for this album during a hike in the spring of 2020 - when she came across a particularly enchanted place in a forest at dusk. InchThe sky was reflected in the pond, and the backlighting caused a magic glow to emerge around the reeds and flowers, as if elves and fairies