Impressions d'enfance Classical Alpha

Impressions d'enfance

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AJ 0834

Impressions d'enfance

Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA834

Release Date: March 2023
Originally recorded in 2022

Genre:
Classical

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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 .

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***** Coup de cœur

Exceptional Album

Jean-Michel Molkhou – Classica magazine (France) – June 2023

“Childhood, in all its skittering energy, quicksilver mood changes and vividly imagined landscapes, is eloquently evoked in this nicely chosen selection…” ****

Steve Wright – BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) – May 2023

“… The sweeping phrases of Enescu’s early Impromptu concertant, indebted to Fauré, allow Nemtanu to display a wonderful sweetness of tone in her violin’s upper registers. Ysaÿe’s Rêve d’enfant, meanwhile, is classy salon music, stylishly done.”

Tim Ashley – Gramophone magazine – May 2023

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