Astrig Siranossian, Nathanäel Gouin - Invisibles (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Cras Cello Sonata I. Allegro
02. Cras Cello Sonata II. Adagio
03. Cras Cello Sonata III. Vif
04. Ferroud Cello Sonata in A Minor I. Capriccio. Allegro moderato
05. Ferroud Cello Sonata in A Minor II. Intermezzo. Allegro
06. Ferroud Cello Sonata in A Minor III. Rondo. Molto vivace
07. Soulage Cello Sonata in F-Sharp Minor I. Allegro moderato
08. Soulage Cello Sonata in F-Sharp Minor II. Nocturne
09. Soulage Cello Sonata in F-Sharp Minor III. Allegro vivo

Astrig Siranossian and Nathanael Gouin pluck from obscurity three rare works that time has rendered (temporarily) invisible. The first of these sonatas for cello and piano, recorded at the La Grange-Fleuret Music Library, was composed by Jean Cras in 1901, when he was a young naval officer aged twenty-two. It displays his precocious mastery of form and texture. Pierre-Octave Ferroud's Sonata, written in 1932, four years before this promising composer died in a car accident at the age of thirty-six, evokes a very different mood. Marcelle Soulage is certainly the least-known of the three. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger, teacher, radio producer and journalist in addition to her work as a composer, she was a founder member of the Groupe Instrumental Feminin in the 1950s. Her Sonata in F sharp minor, written in 1919 when she was twenty-five, reveals inventive qualities that were already very apparent.

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