Composer: Edwin York Bowen, Jan Koetsier, Vincent Neuling, Francis Poulenc, Jane Vignery
Performer: Adrián Díaz Martínez, Ikuko Odai
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Es-Dur
Catalogue: ES2075
Release: 2019
Size: 463 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Bowen: Sonata for Horn & Piano op.101
01. I. Moderato espressivo
02. II. Poco lento maestoso
03. III. Allegro con spirito
04. Poulenc: Elégie for horn and piano, Op. 168
05. Koetsier: Variations for Horn and Piano, Op. 59, No. 3
06. Neuling: Bagatelle
Vignery: Sonata Op. 7
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Lento ma non troppo
09. III. Allegro ben moderato
Spanish horn player Adrin Daz Martnez presents his debut CD, AVANTGARDE, comprising rarely recorded original compositions from the 20th century for horn and piano. The 2017 winner of the renowned Italian wind competition “Citt di Porcia” developed the idea together with his pianist Ikuko Odai.
The CD includes the first ever recording of the divine Bagatelle for Horn and Piano by Hermann Neuling, who for a long time worked as a low horn player at the State Opera in Berlin, and the colourful Elegie for Horn and Piano, FP 168 by Francis Poulenc, which the latter dedicated to the English horn player Dennis Brain, who tragically died in a car accident after a concert at the age of 36.
Adrin Daz Martnez also shows how extensive the horn’s expressive possibilities are with his interpretation of the Sonata for Horn and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 101 by York Bowen, and the Variations for Horn and Piano, Op. 59.3 by Jan Koetsier, who devoted himself intensively throughout his life to compositions for wind instruments.
The Belgian composer and music teacher Jane Vignery left only a few works to posterity. She is represented on this CD with her Sonata for Horn and Piano, Op. 7.