Utwory na płycie:

• Salut d’amour (beginning)
• Asturiana (ending)

Fritz Kreisler:
Preghiera
Caprice viennois

Antonín Dvorák:
Songs My Mother Taught Me (arr. Kreisler)

Franz Liszt:
Consolation No. 3 (arr. Milstein)

Manuel Ponce:
Estrellita (arr. Heifetz)

Joseph Achron:
Hebrew Melody (arr. Auer)

Maria Theresia von Paradis:
Sicilienne (arr. Dushkin)

Christoph Willibald Gluck:
Melodie (arr. Heifetz)

Carl Engel:
Sea-Shell (arr. Zimbalist)

Edward Elgar:
Chanson de Nuit
Salut d’amour

Richard Heuberger:
Midnight Bells (arr. Kreisler)

William Grant Still:
Mother and Child

Manuel de Falla:
Asturiana (arr. Kochanski)

George Gershwin:
My Man’s Gone Now (arr. Heifetz)

Henry Mancini:
Moon River (arr. Poster)

Victor Young:
When I Fall in Love (arr. Poster)

Harold Arlen:
Over the Rainbow (arr. Poster)

In their liner notes for this string of estrellitas( ‘small stars’), Elena Urioste and Tom Poster admit to a shared love for ‘an old-world, golden sound and for melodies that tug at the heartstrings’. This has resulted in a deeply personal collection of miniatures full of winks, sighs and tears aimed at transporting the listener to bygone eras of fireside salon concerts.

With a few exceptions, including Elgar’s Chanson de Nuit and Salut d’amour, the pieces are arrangements by the great violinists of that bygone, golden age: Auer, Kreisler, Zimbalist, Heifetz … while the originals they are based upon range from Gluck’s Melodie from Orpheus and Euridice and Liszt’s Consolation No. 3 to Beau soir by Debussy and Estrellita by Manuel Ponce. In a closing section Elena Urioste and Tom Poster also pay their respects to the Great American Songbook, with new arrangements, signed Tom Poster, of Moon River, When I Fall in Love and Over the Rainbow.

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Recording: January 2017 at SJE Arts, Oxford, England. Instrumentarium: Violin: Alessandro Gagliano, Naples 1706 / Bow: Nicolas Kittel; Grand piano: Steinway D