Alma Bettencourt - Julius Reubke - les deux sonates (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Both pianist and organist, passionate about romantic music, I recently discovered Reubke's work and in particular his Piano Sonata in B? minor (1857) and his Organ Sonata in C minor "Psalm 94" (1857). The latter is influenced by the Fantasy and Fugue on Liszt's "Ad nos ad salutarem undam", created in 1852.

These two exciting works have so many things in common that I have chosen to bring them together in one recording. In addition to the influences of Liszt and Wagner (Reubke attended a performance of Tannhäuser conducted by Liszt in Berlin in 1856), there are clear thematic links between these two sonatas. What characterizes them above all is the orchestral vision that the composer imposes on his writing: if the piano is a naturally expressive instrument, the organ is much less so. However, these two sonatas-rivers manage to make us definitively forget the keyboards. Recording made from December 8 to 10, 2024 on the Large Cavaillé-Coll Organ of the Saint-Sernin Basilica in Toulouse and on December 19 and 20, 2024 at the recording studio of the National Orchestra of Île-de-France.

In partnership with the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris.

TRACKLIST

1. Alma Bettencourt - Reubke: Sonate pour piano en si bémol mineur
2. Alma Bettencourt - Reubke: Sonate pour orgue en ut mineur « psaume 94 »



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