Music For Bassoon and Piano

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Release Date: 20th Jul 2018
Catalogue No: 95761
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 66 minutes

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Dutilleux: Sarabande et Cortège

Work length7:27

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon), Enrique Escartin Ara (piano)

Saint-Saëns: Bassoon Sonata in G major, Op. 168

Work length13:31

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon), Enrique Escartin Ara (piano)
Recorded: 28-31 August 2017
Recording Venue: Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain

Bassoon Sonata in G Major, Op. 168: I. Allegretto moderato

Track length2:54

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Bassoon Sonata in G Major, Op. 168: II. Allegro scherzando

Track length4:01

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Bassoon Sonata in G Major, Op. 168: III. Adagio - Allegro moderato

Track length6:36

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Tansman: Sonatina for bassoon and piano

Work length8:21

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon), Enrique Escartin Ara (piano)
Recorded: 28-31 August 2017
Recording Venue: Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain

I. Allegro con moto

Track length2:23

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II. Aria - Largo cantabile

Track length3:05

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III. Scherzo - Molto vivace

Track length2:53

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Boutry: Interferénces I for bassoon & piano

Work length9:40

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon), Enrique Escartin Ara (piano)

Mignone: Aquela modinha que o vila não esreveu

Work length1:46

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon)

Mignone: Mistério

Work length2:06

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon)

Mignone: Valsa improvisada

Work length3:07

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon)

Hindemith: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano

Work length8:16

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Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon), Enrique Escartin Ara (piano)
Recorded: 28-31 August 2017
Recording Venue: Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain

Bassoon Sonata: I. Leicht bewegt

Track length2:01

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Bassoon Sonata: II. Langsam - Marsch - Beschluss, Pastorale, Ruhig

Track length6:15

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Nante, A: 8 Variaciones sobre la imagen de un sueño

Work length12:37

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Ana Mainer Martin (flute), Carmen Mainer Martin (bassoon), Enrique Escartin Ara (piano)

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A century of bassoon writing, from a French classic of the repertoire to an absorbing brand-new set of variations by a young Argentinian composer.

With his characteristically deft economy of means, Henri Dutilleux explored the two characteristics of the bassoon that have defined it in popular imagination ever since Mickey Mouse whirled his broom in vain at the climax of Walt Disney’s cartoon realisation of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: despite its sombre title, the Sarabande et Cortège of 1942 encloses both mournfulness and wit. So too, in no less concise terms, does the Sonatina of Tansman from a decade later.

Dutilleux’s work opens this recital, but the earliest work here dates from two decades previously, the Sonata which captures in a nutshell the effortlessly easy-going charm of Saint-Saëns’s late music, composed with all the succinct mastery of expression to be expected of one who had never been short of a good tune for more than seven decades. Hindemith’s Sonata of 1938 is briefer still but a much darker work, anchored by a grave march-rhythm second movement which perhaps reflects the troubled times its composition.

The value of Carmen Mainer Martín’s personal selection of repertoire lies in its diversity of styles. Listening to the album should banish forever any notion of the bassoon as a one- or two-note instrument alternating eccentrically between rubicund jollity and doleful introspection. There are three waltzes for solo bassoon by Francisco Mignone, one of the most talented Brazilian composers working in the generation after Villa-Lobos; and to finish, a remarkable set of variations (Ocho variaciones sobre la imagen de un sueño, from 2017) by the Argentinian Alex Nante, born in 1994. This is scored for the unusual combination of bassoon, flute and piano, and dedicated to the two wind-playing sisters on this recording.

Born and raised in Spain, Carmen Mainer Martín now lives and works as both a teacher and performer in Paris. This highly accomplished debut recital on CD should carry her name to an international audience.

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