Rêve d'Enfant by Sophie Rosa

Maurice Ravel

Sophie Rosa

Rêve d'Enfant

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Champs Hill
UPC: 5060212591142
Catnr: CHRCD 123
Release date: 20 May 2016
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Label
Champs Hill

UPC
5060212591142

Catalogue number
CHRCD 123

Release date
20 May 2016

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About the album

Young, prize-winning violinist Sophie Rosa’s debut album for Champs Hill Records leads with a stunning selection of works by Franck, Ravel and Ysaye, accompanied by pianist Benjamin Powell. The artist writes in her introduction to the CD:

“I still remember the first time I heard the Franck Violin Sonata and the distinct impression it made upon me. I have always found the music of Franck, Ravel and Ysäye incredibly alluring. There is something about the sound world, colours and atmosphere of this music that I find so fascinating. It therefore seemed fitting to choose works of these composers for my debut album at Champs Hill Records.

Having played the Franck and Ravel sonatas for many years, Ysäye’s Rêve d’enfant, Op 14, was a relatively more recent discovery for me and I was particularly struck by its eerie beauty and almost hypnotic qualities. I am pleased to have included Franck’s Andantino Quietoso, Op 6, which is not heard so often in concert halls these days.

To look at this repertoire again in the spectacular surroundings of Champs Hill has been very inspiring. I hope that that you will enjoy listening to these beautiful works just as I will enjoy performing them for many years to come.”

Prachtige en inspirerende werken van Franck, Ravel en Ysaÿe
Dit album van de prijswinnende violiste Sophie Rosa geeft de toon aan met een prachtige selectie werken van Franck, Ravel en Ysaÿe. Ze wordt begeleid door pianist Benjamin Powell.

Rosa schrijft in de introductie tot haar album: “Ik herinner me nog steeds de eerste keer dat ik de Vioolsonate van Franck hoorde, en de indruk die het werk op me maakte. Ik heb de muziek van Franck, Ravel en Ysaÿe altijd ongelooflijk verleidelijk gevonden. Er is iets aan de klankwereld, kleuren en sfeer van deze muziek dat ik zo fascinerend vind. Daarom leek het gepast om werken van deze componisten voor mijn debuutalbum te kiezen.”

“Ik speel de sonates van Franck en Ravel al jarenlang. Ysaÿes Rêve d’enfant opus 14 was een relatief recentere ontdekking en ik werd in het bijzonder geraakt door zijn angstaanjagende schoonheid en haast hypnotiserende kwaliteiten. Ik ben ermee ingenomen dat ik Francks Andantino Quietoso opus 6 heb toegevoegd, dat vandaag de dag niet zo vaak in concertzalen wordt uitgevoerd.”

“Het was zeer inspirerend om dit repertoire opnieuw te bekijken. Ik hoop dat je net zo zal genieten van het beluisteren van deze prachtige werken als ik van het uitvoeren ervan in de komende jaren.”

Artist(s)

Sophie Rosa (violin)

One of the UK's most exciting violinists, Sophie Rosa was awarded the Second Prize and Audience Prize at the 2nd Manchester International Violin Competition 2011. She has performed across the UK as a recitalist in venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room and Bridgewater Hall as well as appearing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata. Sophie has broadcast for Radio 3 and Classic FM.
Sophie has performed regularly throughout the UK and internationally from a very young age. In 2006 she was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and was the First Prize winner of the Lions European Music Competition, Cannes. Sophie studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music. She was a recipient of the RNCM Gold Medal and was also awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians Silver Medal in recognition of her musical achievements. Sophie was also a recipient of the MBF Ian Fleming Charitable Trust Award. After completing her Masters Degree with Distinction, Sophie completed the RNCM International Artist a in Solo Performance and furthered her studies in America with Midori Goto, Miriam Fried and Donald Weilerstein.
Sophie has performed at the MBNA Chester Music Festival, The Manchester Midday Concert Society, The Aurora Festival, Sweden, Musique Cordiale Festival, France, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove. As a chamber musician Sophie has collaborated with notable musicians including Martin Roscoe, Nobuko Imai, Hannah Roberts, Craig Ogden and James Gilchrist.
Sophie was kindly supported by several award foundations including the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Music Scholarship, The Solti Foundation, The Hattori Foundation, The Manchester Graucob Award, the Leverhulme Scholarship, The High Sheriff of Cheshire Prize for Music, The Stephen Bell Charitable Trust, The Lauriston School Trust, The Stanley Picker Trust and Help Musicians UK.
Sophie currently plays on a Joseph Gagliano violin dated 1795 made available through the generous support of the Stradivari Trust.

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Benjamin Powell (piano)

Composer(s)

Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer who is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the Conservatoire Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity, incorporating elements of baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.
As a slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas, and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies and only one religious work. Many of his works exist in two versions: a first, piano score and a later orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as Daphnis et Chloé (1912) require skilful balance in performance.

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