Performer: Daniel Hope, Lise de la Salle, Simon Crawford-Phillips
Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release: 2020
Size: 2.71 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Claude Debussy:
01. Rêverie, L. 68 (Arr. Badzura)
Arnold Schoenberg:
02. Notturno for Strings and Harp
Jules Massenet:
03. Thaïs: Méditation (Arr. Knoth)
Reynaldo Hahn:
04. À Chloris (Arr. Hope and Crawford-Phillips)
Alban Berg:
05. Schließe mir die Augen beide
Claude Debussy:
06. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin (Arr. Hope and Crawford-Phillips)
Ernest Chausson:
Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21
07. 1. Décidé – Calme – Animé (Orch.)
08. 2. Sicilienne – Pas vite (Orch.)
09. 3. Grave (Orch.)
10. 4. Finale – Très animé (Orch.)
Richard Strauss:
11. 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: 4. Morgen!
Frank Bridge:
12. Miniatures: 7. Valse Russe
Edward Elgar:
13. Chanson de Matin, Op. 15 No. 2 (Arr. Bateman)
Alexander von Zemlinsky:
14. Serenade für Violine und Klavier: 1. Mäßig
Sergey Vasil’yevich Rachmaninov:
15. 2 Morceaux de Salon, Op. 6: 1. Romance
Arnold Schoenberg:
16. Piece in D Minor
Gabriel Fauré:
17. Andante, Op. 75
Maurice Ravel:
18. Sonate Posthume for Violin and Piano, M. 12
Alban Berg:
19. Jugendlieder: 10. Winter
Fritz Kreisler:
20. Liebesleid
Gabriel Fauré:
21. Morceau de lecture
Charles Koechlin:
Quatre Petites Pièces:
22. 2. Très modéré
23. 4. Scherzando
24. 3. Allegretto quasi andantino1
25. 1. Andante
George Enescu:
26. Impromptu concertant
Claude Debussy:
27. Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: 12. Minstrels (Arr. for Violin and Piano)
Paul Juon:
28. Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 28: 3. Berceuse
Anton Webern:
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7:
29. 1. Sehr langsam
30. 2. Rasch
31. 3. Sehr langsam
32. 4. Bewegt
Christian August Sinding:
33. Suite im alten Stil, Op. 10: 2. Adagio
Edward Elgar:
34. Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47
The Belle Époque, the era lasting from the end of the Franco-Prussian War to the beginning of World War I (1871-1914), was a diverse period; the name is indicative at best of general tendencies such as peace and prosperity, along with darker trends. Violinist Daniel Hope’s Belle Époque album contains music from various countries in a wide range of styles, and it’s not quite a concept album. However, it does hang together in interesting ways. Hope’s program mixes orchestral pieces and chamber music; this could easily have happened in a late 19th century concert, which might have thrown in some solo piano music as well. His selections from both the salon and the learned studio, pieces like Fritz Kreisler’s Liebesleid, bump up against Webern’s Four Pieces, Op. 7, with most of the music somewhere in between. What’s fascinating is that the light and heavy works seem to have things to say to each other. It helps that Hope unearths some less familiar items and recruits enthusiastic collaborators. The Concerto for violin, piano, and string quartet of Chausson (here played with a string orchestra) is an unusual and moody work, and there are such novelties as Schoenberg’s totally tonal Notturno for violin, harp, and string orchestra. Several pieces make use of Jane Berthe’s harp, an instrument that doesn’t always get its due in 19th century programming. The chamber music disc is full of attractive and rarely played items, such as Alexander Zemlinsky’s Serenade and George Enescu’s Impromptu concertant, and if the Webern seems to come out of nowhere, an audience of the early 20th century might not have heard it that way. Both enjoyable and innovative, like so much of Hope’s work.