Sheila Arnold, Sandrine Cantoreggi, Michael Faust, Gustav Rivinius – Mel Bonis: Entre Soir et Matin (2023)
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A late discovery of a most important female composer from France for the musical world. Melanie Helene Bonis, known by her artistic pseudonym Mel Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937), was a Romantic composer in the late years of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.
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Sheila Arnold – ECOUTEZ! Debussy, Cage & Takemitsu (2018)
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Claude Debussy left a profound mark on music history when he dissolved functional harmony under the influence of the music of the Far East.
Tōru Takemitsu had to distance himself from his own culture in order to listen to Japanese music with the ears of a Western-trained musician – adopting, for instance, the approach of John Cage. He came to realize that Japan’s venerable musical tradition had long been highlighting individual notes as complex sonorities in their own right, instead of treating them as part of a series of several notes.
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Sheila Arnold – Schubert: Four Impromptus & Sonata in G (2016)
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If I try to put the essence of these works into words, I find it hard to remain objective, for subjectivity is this music’s true core. Indeed we are confronted here with a series of different forms: sonata form, ABA form, theme with variations, rondos and dances. Yet those very forms start to metamorphose as we approach the threshold of musical Romanticism – and its forerunners were Romantic poets, several of whom Schubert counted among his close circle of friends.
In contrast with cosy Biedermeier placidity, the painful isolation and yearning of deeply sensitive individuals is something equally omnipresent in that troubled age, and ultimately it does not make any difference whom or what the yearning is for. Here we have brooding meditation, fragments, inner disruption, the dissolution of the borders that separate reality from the world of appearances, life from death; nature experienced as a projection of one’s own inner emotions, “inside is outside”. Instead of an old-fashioned doctrine of the affections, Schubert traces a psychogram.
That is the context within which I view the Four Impromptus D 899 and the so-called “Sonata-Fantasia” D 894. These works have been part of my life since early youth. My view of them has obviously shifted several times, and will hopefully continue to do so. This recording not only reflects the influences of daily life and the encounters I have enjoyed with wonderful people and literature; it likewise captures a glimpse of my attitude in a fleeting moment, particularly my experience with historical instruments – a passion I have been pursuing for almost twenty years. ……(aus dem Booklettext von Sheila Arnold)
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