Bassoon and piano concerto
With "Perfect Happiness?", Lilit Grigoryan and David Petersen present their first joint album on the Berlin Classics label - a musical statement that allows Leipzig's romantic music tradition to shine in a new color. The program brings together three outstanding works that are rarely heard or heard for the first time in this instrumentation: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Sonata for Piano and Violoncello No. 1 in B flat major, op. 45, kicks off the program - here in a version for piano and bassoon that transforms the lyrical and vocal character of the original into an exciting dialogue between keyboard and wind interpretation. This is followed by the Grand Duo Concertant in B flat major, op. 34 by Ignaz Moscheles, the only work on this recording that was originally composed for this instrumentation. It is a very virtuosic piece, especially for the piano, while the bassoon is required to play melodious parts in a very unusually high register for the instruments of the time.
The emotional core of the album is formed by Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen, op. 15, whose poetic miniatures are heard in a new arrangement for bassoon and piano. Petersen and Grigoryan have arranged these pieces for their instrumentation with great care and musical curiosity, opening up a fresh, breathing and song-like perspective on Schumann's famous piano cycle.
Dr. Eberhard Spree, who wrote the booklet text, will present documents and stories about the three composers.
