Composer: Jean Cras, Pierre-Octave Ferroud
Performer: Astrig Siranossian, Nathanäel Gouin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1085
Release: 2024
Size: 1.02 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cras: Cello Sonata
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Vif
Ferroud: Cello Sonata in A Minor
04. I. Capriccio. Allegro moderato
05. II. Intermezzo. Allegro
06. III. Rondo. Molto vivace
Soulage: Cello Sonata in F-Sharp Minor
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Nocturne
09. 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.