Music from Proust’s Salons
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2522
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 5th March 2021
Contents
Works
LamentoElegie in C minor, op.24
Romance in A major, op.69
Violin Sonata in A major (arr. Jules Delsart for cello)
Variations chantantes sur un air ancien
La Vision de la Reine
Cello Sonata no.1 in C minor, op.32
Artists
Steven Isserlis (cello)Connie Shih (piano)
Works
LamentoElegie in C minor, op.24
Romance in A major, op.69
Violin Sonata in A major (arr. Jules Delsart for cello)
Variations chantantes sur un air ancien
La Vision de la Reine
Cello Sonata no.1 in C minor, op.32
Artists
Steven Isserlis (cello)Connie Shih (piano)
About
The first of these to make his appearance in the programme is no one less than Proust’s one-time lover and lifelong friend, Reynaldo Hahn, with a brief set of Variations chantantes on a theme from a baroque opera. He is followed by Gabriel Fauré, whose music Proust gushed about in a letter to the composer: ‘I could write a book more than 300 pages long about it.’ Proust was less expansive about Saint-Saëns’ music even if he admired him as a pianist, but the composer’s First Cello Sonata is nevertheless the centrepiece of the programme, before Henri Duparc and Augusta Holmès make their appearance. These were both students of César Franck, whose iconic Violin Sonata in A major (here in the version for cello) closes this programme of ‘salon music’ – in the best possible sense of the term.
Sound/Video
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1Hahn: Variations chantantes sur un air ancien (1905)
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2Fauré: Romance, op.69 (1894)
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3Fauré: Élégie, op.24 (1880)
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4Saint-Saëns: Cello Sonata No.1 in C minor, op.32 (1872): 1. Allegro
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5Saint-Saëns: Cello Sonata No.1 in C minor, op.32 (1872): 2. Andante tranquillo e sostenuto
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6Saint-Saëns: Cello Sonata No.1 in C minor, op.32 (1872): 3. Allegro moderato
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7Saint-Saëns: Allegro quasi presto (original finale of Cello Sonata No.1)
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8Duparc: Lamento. Lento (second movement of Cello Sonata in A minor, c.1867)
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9Holmès: Récitatif et Chant (from ‘La Vision de la Reine’, 1895) (arr. Steven Isserlis)
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10Franck: Sonata in A major (1886) (arr. Jules Delsart): 1. Allegretto ben moderato
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11Franck: Sonata in A major (1886) (arr. Jules Delsart): 2. Allegro
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12Franck: Sonata in A major (1886) (arr. Jules Delsart): 3. Recitativo-Fantasia. Ben moderato
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13Franck: Sonata in A major (1886) (arr. Jules Delsart): 4. Allegretto poco mosso
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