Robin Johannsen - Mozart in Milan - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Allegro - Adagio (5'18) 2. Allegro (4'11)Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043 3. Vivace (3'26) 4. Largo Ma Non Tanto (5'57) 5. Allegro (4'03)Suite in D Major, BWV 1066 6. Ouverture (9'02) 7. Courante (2'04) 8. Gavottes I & II (2'39) 9. Forlane (1'07) 10. Menuets I & II (2'54) 11. Bourrã©Es I & II (2'21) 12. Passepieds I & II (3'02)Concerto for Oboe and Violin in D minor, BWV 1060 13. Allegro (4'18) 14. Adagio (4'32) 15. Allegro (3'08)

This album pays homage to the composer Adele Hugo (1830-1915), the fifth child of the great poet Victor Hugo. Suffering from lifelong psychological instability, she spent half of her tragic life in mental institutions, from the age of 42 until her death aged 85. Hers was an exalted and sensitive temperament; she became passionately fond of music from an early age, studying the piano and then composition. Her musical manuscripts were recently rediscovered, and the Director of the Victor Hugo Museums in Paris and Guernsey entrusted them to composer Richard Dubugnon, so as to research and reconstruct the jigsaw of these often quite fragmentary scores, which had been lying forgotten for more than a century. What has emerged is a set of fourteen of her songs on poems by Victor Hugo and verses taken from his great novel Les Miserables, as well as five songs without words. Appropriately, the Orchestre Victor Hugo and it's Music Director Jean-Francois Verdier have been involved in the project, and they invited Dubugnon to orchestrate the pieces, presented here by a multi-generational team of leading singers. Album Tracks 1. Nuits de Juin 2. Châtiments 3. Chants Du Crépuscule (I) 4. Sans Titre en Fa Majeur Pour Clarinette Et Piano 5. Flebile Nescio Quid 6. Regret 7. Chanson de Jean Prouvaire 8. Simple Mélodie (II) en la Bémol Majeur Pour Flûte Et Piano 9. Ce Que Chantait Gavroche 1 10. Ce Que Chantait Gavroche 2 11. Ce Que Chantait Gavroche 3 12. Bourdon en Fa Mineur Pour Clarinette Et Piano 13. Hymne Des Transportés 14. Chant Sans Paroles en la Majeur Pour Violoncelle Et Piano 15. Chants Du Crépuscule (II) 16. L'oiseau Passe 17. Simple Mélodie (I) en Do Majeur Pour Clarinette Et Piano 18. Encore À Toi 19. Priez Pour Les Morts

After the Second Piano Concerto (Alpha 395), Nelson Goerner presents here his first solo Brahms recital with the Sonata op.5, a youthful composition that is 'impetuous, full of ardour and vitality', says Goerner, 'but which requires an interpreter who has reached maturity in his or her development to express all that it contains'. In fact, the Argentinian pianist has had this sonata in his repertory since the start of his career and has played it extensively in concert. Many composers have taken an interest in Paganini and written variations on his famous theme Liszt before Brahms, and Rachmaninoff and Lutoslawski after him. 'Brahms displays exuberant invention in his Variations, which are at once highly virtuosic and very profound, and above all overflowing with imagination. Brahms gives the name InchÉtudesInch to these variations which, like the études of Chopin and Liszt, go far beyond the superficially off-putting nature of the title', concludes the pianist. 'It's a marvel of inventiveness!' Album Tracks 1. Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.5 2. Variations on a Theme By Paganini in a Minor, Op.35 (Book I) 3. Variations on a Theme By Paganini in a Minor, Op.35 (Book II)