Mel Bonis: Entre Soir Et Matin
Sandrine Cantoreggi & Sheila Arnold
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Sandrine Cantoreggi & Sheila Arnold
Description
A late discovery of a most important female composer from France for the musical world. Melanie Helene Bonis, known by her artistic pseudonym Mel Bonis (21 January 1858 - 18 March 1937), was a Romantic composer in the late years of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.
Her ouevre includes more than 300 pieces: music for piano, chamber music in various formats, organ pieces, Lieder, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. Her teachers at the Paris Conservatoire included Cesar Franck, Ernest Guiraud and Auguste Bazille.
To her contemporaries surprise, Mel Bonis succeeded in the Paris society and was well regarded by her male composer fellows Camille Saint-Saens, her fellow student Claude Debussy and others. Some of her works have been officially published.
Sheila Arnold and Sandrine Cantoreggi initiated this album and discovered not only a piece - Soir - never played or was registered before, but kept her choice also mainly to their own instruments Violin and Fortepiano (on a Bluethner Fortepiano 1871). Two Trios (one with Cello, the other with flute) embrace the program of small short pieces for Violin and Fortepiano, highlighting in particular the larger Violin Sonata, Op. 112.
"Music speaks to me about what I want, but then it withholds it. It kindles my desires and makes me feel the futility of everything on this earth. Oh! Words are so empty when they try to express all of these things! It's such a horrible longing." (Mel Bonis)
Tracklisting
Antje Weithaas & Camerata Bern
Schaghajegh Nosrati
Marilies Guschlbauer & Julia Rinderle
Manz, Plath, Klieser, Holscher, Lee, Ionita, Wagner
Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide
Laurence Kilsby & Ella O'Neill
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Kathrin Zukowski, KammerMusikKoln
Andre Rieu
Wu Wei; Martin Stegner; Janne Saksala
Vinciane Beranger; Anne-Lise Gastaldi; Florent Heau
Giovanni Antonini; Kammerorchester Basel
Borbala Dobozy
Mitja Quartet; Giorgiana Strazzullo; Lorenza Maio; Carmine Caniani; Veronica Fabbri Valenzuela
Luca Ranieri; Andrea Trovato
Lord of the Dance