Composer: Lera Auerbach, Mikhail Glinka, Sergey Rachmaninov, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Performer: Lola Descours, Paloma Kouider
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orchid
Catalogue: ORC100190
Release: 2022
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Scriabin: 12 Etudes for piano, Op. 8
01. No. 11 in B-Flat Minor (Arr. G. Piatigorsky for Bassoon & Piano)
Shostakovich: Preludes for piano, Op. 34
02. No. 6, Allegretto
03. No. 13, Moderato
04. No. 14, Adagio
05. No. 15, Allegretto
06. No. 16, Andantino
07. No. 24, Allegretto
Rimsky-Korsakov: 4 Songs, Op. 2
08. No. 2, Eastern Song (The Nightingale Enslaved by the Rose) [Arr. L. Descours & P. Kouider for Bassoon & Piano]
Tchaikovsky: Morceaux, Op. 19
09. No. 4, Nocturne (Arr. I. Kostlan for Bassoon & Piano)
10. Auerbach: I Walk Unseen
11. Glinka: Do not Tempt me
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
12. I. Lento
13. II. Allegro scherzando
14. III. Andante
15. IV. Allegro mosso
Bassoonist Lola Descours, prize-winner of the prestigious Tchaikovsky competition in 2019, performs an all-Russian program of music transcribed for bassoon and piano.
A passionate advocate for the bassoon and its often underestimated capacity for colour and expression, Lola Descours performs repertoire of great variety, including Glinka, considered to be the first great Russian composer, as well as lyrical Tchaikovsky, romantic Rachmaninov, powerful Scriabin and sardonic Shostakovich. The program is brought up to date with a dream-like piece by contemporary Russian composer Lera Auerbach.
Lola Descours is partnered in this recital by pianist Paloma Koulder, with whom she has made several of the arrangements heard on the album.