Music for Bassoon and Piano

Featuring

Carmen Mainer Martín
Enrique Escartín Ara
Ana Mainer Martín
Henri Dutilleux
Camille Saint-Saëns
Alexandre Tansman

Roger Boutry
Francisco Paulo Mignone
Paul Hindemith
Alex Nante

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Recording & Production

The recording used Neumann U89i and Schoeps microphones, a Horus preamplifier and converter, and Pyramix DAW software.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Francisco Mignone, a Brazilian composer, synthesized European Romanticism and Brazilian music in his waltzes for solo bassoon.

Recording & Production

The album includes a world premiere recording of Alex Nante's "Ocho variaciones sobre la imagen de un sueño" for flute, bassoon, and piano.

Performer Biography

Enrique Escartín Ara, the pianist on this album, has taught piano accompaniment at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón since 2007 and taught at Berlin's University of the Arts in 2014.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in August 2017 at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón in Zaragoza, Spain.

Performer Biography

Ana Mainer Martín, the flautist featured on one track, received a Special Mention for the 2016 Colegio de España/INAEM Performance Prize.

Performer Biography

Carmen Mainer Martín, the bassoonist on this album, won the Performance Prize awarded by the Colegio de España in Paris and Spain's National Institute of Performing Arts and Music in 2015.