Hommage à Nadia Boulanger
| Dates | June 2024 |
| Record label | Indésens Calliope Records |
| Type | Recording |
“Hommage à Nadia Boulanger”
Indésens Calliope Records label
Performers
Lola Descours, bassoon
Paloma Kouider, piano
Octuor de France
First Prize winner in the winds category of the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition and principal bassoon of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lola Descours joins pianist Paloma Kouider to tell a musical story of Nadia Boulanger.
This bassoon program reveals the kaleidoscope of artists who surrounded Nadia Boulanger and the wide range of their styles, through an eclectic selection of pieces and arrangements, one of them written for this album by the original composer, Vladimir Cosma himself.
PROGRAM
- 01 Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Suite Italienne sur Pulcinella
- 02 Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) Maria de Buenos Aires
- 03 Aaron Copland (1900–1990) Old Poem
- 04 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Sonate op. 168 for bassoon and piano
- 05 Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) La Mer
- 06 Vladimir Cosma (b. 1940) Le Jouet
- 07 Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Nocturne
- 08 Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101: V. Violon
- 09 Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) La Courte Paille, FP 178: II. Quelle Aventure !
- 10 Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) Léocadia, FP 106: No. 1, Les Chemins de l’Amour*
- 11 Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Les Berceaux
- 12 Michel Legrand (1932–2019) Watch What Happens
- 13 Philip Glass (b. 1937) Love Divided By No. 4
- 14 Jean Françaix (1912–1997) Divertissement for bassoon and string quintet
- 15 Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) Maria
