Path To the Moon

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It’s a special treat to have two of the younger generation’s most interesting artists championing the Walker as its existing discography is so very limited. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2024
Catalogue No: CHAN20274
Label: Chandos
Length: 78 minutes

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Korngold: Schönste Nacht, Op. 36 No. 25

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Walker, George: Cello Sonata

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

I. Allegro passionato - Molto meno mosso

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II. Sostenuto

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III. Allegro - Presto

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Boulanger, L: Reflets

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Price, F: Night

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Arr. for Cello & Piano by Tom Poster
Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXX

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Britten: Sonata for cello and piano in C major, Op. 65

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

I. Dialogo

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II. Scherzo-pizzicato

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III. Elegia

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IV. Marcia

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V. Moto Perpetuo

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Debussy: Beau Soir

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Arr. for Cello & Piano by Alexander Grechaninov
Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Fauré: Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Debussy: Cello Sonata

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

I. Prologue

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II. [Sérénade.] Modérément animé

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III. Finale. Animé

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Takemitsu: Will tomorrow, I wonder, be cloudy or clear?

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Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Simone, N: Everyone's Gone to the Moon

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Arr. for Cello & Piano by Jâms Coleman
Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

Debussy: Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

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Arr. for Cello & Piano by Ferdinando Ronchini & Alexandre Roelens
Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano)

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The performers write: ‘Selecting the repertoire for our album Path to the Moon, we wanted to explore a number of possibilities for binding together a programme. To place different works alongside one another is a wonderful way of bringing out new and unusual qualities in each piece. William T. Horton’s fantastic image The Path to the Moon immediately inspired a flurry of ideas, including works on the subjects of both night and the moon, as well as pieces which invoke the exploratory nature of humankind’s voyage to the moon. Britten wrote his Sonata for Cello and Piano only two years after the first object made by humans had touched the surface of the moon, in 1959. Humans throughout history and from all cultures have been drawn to and taken inspiration from the moon and we have tried to reflect this in our eclectic choice of song repertoire: from Tōru Takemitsu to Nina Simone and from Lili Boulanger to Florence Price. As we hope you will hear on this album, Walker’s Cello Sonata rings with echoes of the sound-worlds of blues and jazz and is infused with a beautiful lyricism. We really believe that Walker’s Cello Sonata deserves to become a staple of the chamber music repertoire and are absolutely thrilled to offer you a recording of it in the context of our own exploration of a path to the moon.’

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March 2024

It’s a special treat to have two of the younger generation’s most interesting artists championing the Walker as its existing discography is so very limited.

15th February 2024

an intriguing juxtaposition of three major 20th-century sonatas with a handful of songs in which the cello takes the vocal line...The work they are keenest to champion is the 1957 Cello Sonata by groundbreaking Black American composer George Walker, a tautly argued piece that’s a real discovery, persuasively played here.

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