Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, George Enescu, Maurice Ravel, Nino Rota, Eugene Ysaÿe
Performer: Sarah Nemtanu, Romain Descharmes
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA834
Release: 2023
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Enescu: Impromptu Concertant in G flat major for violin & piano
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
02. I. Allegro vivo
03. II. Intermède. fantasque et léger
04. III. Finale. très animé
05. Ysaÿe: Rêve d’enfant, Op. 14
Enescu: Impressions d’enfance for violin and piano, Op. 28
06. I. Ménétrier
07. II. Vieux mendiant
08. III. Ruisselet au fond du jardin
09. IV. L’Oiseau en cage et le coucou au mur
10. V. Chanson pour bercer
11. VI. Grillon
12. VII. Lune à travers les vitres
13. VIII. Vent dans la cheminée
14. IX. Tempête au dehors, dans la nuit
15. X. Lever de soleil
Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major
16. I. Allegretto
17. II. Blues. Moderato
18. III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
19. Rota: Improvviso
Leader of the Orchestre National de France for the past two decades, chamber musician, high-flying soloist, Sarah Nemtanu is one of the most dynamic musical figures on today’s French scene. With her partner Romain Descharmes, she presents here a very personal journey, in the form of a tribute to her dual Romanian and French roots: George Enescu’s Impressions d’enfance, his whirlwind Impromptu concertant, and the famous sonatas of Ravel and Debussy make up the programme, rounded out with the magical harmonies of Ysaÿe’s Rêve d’enfant and, to end with, Nino Rota’s Improvviso ‘Un diavolo sentimentale’, which evokes ‘a dream of constructing a big top to enfold all the mischiefs, joys, fears, dreams and naïve memories, in short, the most beautiful impressions of our childhoods.