After discs for Ondine and Virgin, Latvian mezzo soprano Elina Garanca made her Deutsche Grammophon debut in late 2006 with this disc called Aria Cantilena after the first movement of Villa-Lobos' Bachianas brasileiras No. 5. For the most part, the then-30-year-old Garanca stuck with the lighter end of the French and Italian repertoire -- Massenet ...
Cellist Peter Bruns sure is a happy looking fellow on the front cover of his Hänssler Classics disc Joseph Haydn: Cello Concertos. By right he should be, as this is as fine and persuasive a rendering of these two well-worn and familiar cello concerti, only known to us since about 1960 but so far ingrained into the repertoire by now that it is as ...
Although it has taken several years since his death, the compositions of Paul Juon are increasingly being given the attention, performances, and recordings that they very much deserve. Juon was a contemporary of a number of better recognized composers -- including Reger, Scriabin, and Schoenberg -- but while the trend at the time may have been ...
Choosing the music of Charles-Marie Widor and Louis Vierne may seem a curious decision for a first volume of French Works for Cello and Piano. After all, Widor (César Franck's successor as director of the Paris Conservatoire) and Vierne (one of Widor's star protégés) might not even be names that came up for most listeners when trying to consider ...
Even though Charles Koechlin's music is pleasantly tuneful, harmonically lush, and mildly impressionistic in style, it has not yet found the wide audience it deserves. Listeners who love Fauré and adore Debussy will probably feel right at home with Koechlin's gentle, evocative chamber pieces, and regard this 2006 recording by cellist Peter Bruns ...
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