Marie Ythier, Marie Vermeulin & Samuel Bricault - Une rencontre (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Metier Records, the new-music label of Divine Art Recordings Group, has a fascinating new recording bringing together music by Robert Schumann and Tristan Murail. The album, to be released in June 2019, will be titled ‘Une rencontre’ (‘An encounter’) and is a meeting of Romantic and contemporary music, climaxed by the premiere recording of Murail’s ‘revisit’ to Schumann’s Kinderszenen, a transcription written especially for the cello soloist Marie Ythier.

Marie Ythier is a superb cellist based in Paris who specializes in modern music; her four published recordings to date include ‘Le geste augmenté’ for solo cello and electronics (Evidence Classics). She is already the dedicatee of a dozen works and has worked with many major composers and conductors She has won several international prizes and is currently Professor of Cello at the CRD Paris Conservatoire as well as giving masterclasses in France, Asia and South America. On this new album she is accompanied by two fine French artists, Samuel Bricault (flute) and Marie Vermeulin (piano).

Stephen Sutton, CEO of the Divine Art group; said –‘I am honoured that Marie has signed with Métier for this wonderful album bringing together works by two great composers whose styles are necessarily very different but also complementary. And I am grateful to Tristan for introducing Marie to us. Our album of his spectral piano music played by Marilyn Nonken is the best selling title in the Metier catalogue.”

Tracklist:
1 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102: No. 1, Mit humor "Vanitas vanitatum" 03:23
2 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102: No. 2, Langsam 03:38
3 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102: No. 3, Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen 04:11
4 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102: No. 4, Nicht zu rasch 02:06
5 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102: No. 5, Stark und markiert 02:57
6 Attracteurs étranges 09:01
7 Une lettre de Vincent 07:47
8 No. 1, Zart und mit Ausdruck 03:31
9 No. 2, Lebhaft, licht 03:14
10 No. 3, Rasch und mit Feuer 04:03
11 C’est un jardin secret, ma sœur, ma fiancée, une fontaine close, une source scellée… (Version for Cello) 04:34
12 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 1, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen 02:02
13 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 2, Curiose Geschichte 01:10
14 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 3, Hasche-Mann 00:33
15 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 4, Bittendes Kind 00:50
16 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 5, Glückes genug 00:41
17 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 6, Wichtige Begebenheit 01:01
18 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 7, Träumerei 02:35
19 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 8, Am Camin 00:59
20 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 9, Ritter vom Steckenpferd 00:48
21 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 10, Fast zu ernst 01:33
22 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 11, Fürchtenmachen 02:09
23 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 12, Kind im Einschlummern 02:06
24 A Rereading of Kinderszenen (After R. Schumann's Op. 15): No. 13, Der Dichter spricht 02:07

Personnel:
Marie Ythier, cello
Marie Vermeulin, piano
Samuel Bricault, flute