WITH ANNER BYLSMA, Cello

PERFORMED ON PERIOD INSTRUMENTS
FRANCHOMME/CHOPIN:
Grand Duo Concertant
FRANCHOMME: Nocturne in G
FRANCHOMME: Nocturne in A Flat Major, Op. 15, No. 3
Sony Classical/Vivarte.
Compact Disc: SK 53980

The recording sessions for this disc took place in January of 1993. The instruments used are from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. The piano is the "Queen Victoria" Érard built in London in 1854, and the cello is the "Servais" made by Antonio Stradivari in Cremona in 1701.

Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884) was known as the most distinguished French cellist of his time, and as a composer, featured the cello in the music that he composed. The other works on this disc are written by Franchomme for strings alone and are performed by the L'Archibudelli and Smithsonian Chamber Players. Of the three pieces that Lambert Orkis plays with Anner Bylsma, the Grand Duo Concertant is the centerpiece of the recording, and is a work on which Chopin, a close friend of Franchomme's, collaborated.

This disc is unique, as it is the sole recording on which this glorious Érard piano can be heard.

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