Sophie Pacini - Puzzle - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Ballade NR. 4 F-Moll Op. 52 2. Nocturne NR. 2 Es-Dur Op. 9 NR. 2 3. Scherzo NR. 2 B-Moll Op. 31 4. Nocturne NR. 1 B-Moll Op. 9 NR. 1 5. Nocturne NR. 8 Des-Dur Op. 27 NR. 2 6. Impromptu NR. 4 Cis-Moll Op. 66 InchFantasie-ImpromptuInch 7. Nocturne NR. 7 Cis-Moll Op. 27 NR. 1 8. Nocturne NR. 13 C-Moll Op. 48 NR. 1 9. Polonaise NR. 7 As-Dur Op. 61 InchPolonaise FantaisieInch 10. Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639)

How composers draw their creative lives to a close continues to fascinate. Are their final works the culmination of all that has gone before or suggest what might have come next? Did illness enhance their profundity or diminish their powers? Can we listen to such pieces without thinking of them as some kind of message from beyond the grave? The music featured on this fascinating program from violinist Sophie Rosa and pianist Ian Buckle each suggest different answers to these questions and challenges some preconceptions. In their last years, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) both continued to be inspired by musicians around them. Schumann in post-revolutionary Germany and Schoenberg in post-war America looked back to classical models, to reinvigorate, even lighten, their compositional approach. That sense of playing with history is also evident in the music of Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov (b. 1937), who has claimed InchI do not write new music. My music is a response to, and an echo of what already exists.Inch Album Tracks 1. Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano, WoO 2~I. Ziemlich langsam 5. Phantasy for violin and piano, Op. 47 7. 'Post scriptum' Sonata for violin and piano~I. Largo - Allegro

The oboe is said to be one of the most complex instruments there is, not only for players but for those who compose music for it, too. As a performer and professor, Celine Moinet has studied almost every single piece for the oboe in recent years. Thus she knows all too well that not every composer has been able to handle and stage the instrument in their music in a way that truly does it justice. A few stand out from the crowd, and the musician has already devoted herself to them in detail in her past album projects, including Bach, Schumann, Beriot, and Britten, to name a few. On this album, Celine Moinet turns her gaze towards her home country France to the composers whose work made her fall in love with the oboe as a young girl Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel.