Fanny Robilliard, Paloma Kouider – Debussy, Szymanowski, Hahn & Ravel (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fanny Robilliard, Paloma Kouider – Debussy, Szymanowski, Hahn & Ravel (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:55 minutes | 993 MB | Genre: Classical
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The violinist Fanny Robilliard and the pianist Paloma Kouider pursue their chamber music journey with the Trio Karenina by exploring the repertoire for violin and piano of the 20th century. The famous sonatas of Debussy and Ravel come along with two scores by Reynaldo Hahn and Karol Szymanowski. The infinite tenderness of Hahn’s Nocturne distils the effusions of late Romanticism, as a counterpoint to the stronger modernity of the French giants, who frame this program as pillars. At the heart of the program, the Myths of Szymanowski weave a discourse where the musicians can express their talent and dialogue beyond the words. They equally and with sincere sensibility shape a program in which freshness, passion and maturity are embraced in an intimate dream.

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Fanny Robilliard – Brahms, Schumann (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fanny Robilliard – Brahms, Schumann (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:21 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Evidence

Even from their album cover in which the two musicians are running through the ferns, it’s evident that violinist Fanny Robilliard and pianist Paloma Kouider are a charming duo. The image, which is perhaps anecdotal, is conjured up at the beginning of their latest album when listening to “Mid leidenschaflichem Ausdruck” (With passionate expression). It runs through the entire initial movement of Robert Schumann’s First Sonata for Violin and Piano, premiered by Ferdinand David and Clara on the piano during a celebratory “Schumann Week” in Leipzig, in 1852.

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