Various Composers - Moonlight Variations (Pablo Ferrández)

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1. Antonín Dvořák - Rusalka, Op. 114, Act I: Song to the Moon
2. Claude Debussy - Beau soir, L. 84
3. Franz Schubert - Nacht und Träume, D. 827
4. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth.
5. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 6 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 6. Valse sentimentale
6. Franz Liszt - Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3 in A-Flat Major
7. Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen, Op.15: No. 7. Träumerei
8. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Nocturne in D Minor, Op. 19
9. Manuel Ponce - Estrellita
10. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42: No. 3 Mélodie
11. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
12. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Pablo Ferrández, cello

Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Martin Fröst, conductor

Julien Quentin, piano

Date: 2025

Label: Sony Classical

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Star cellist Pablo Ferrández has realized a twenty-year dream to record Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations on his latest album for Sony Classical, combining the spirited work with melancholy nocturnes to create Moonlight Variations - an album he describes as "night followed by day". In addition to Tchaikovsky’s extended variation set, recorded in Örebro with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Martin Fröst, Ferrández includes movements from Liszt's Liebestraum and Schumann’s Kinderszenen, transcriptions of piano nocturnes by Chopin and songs by Schubert and Debussy. The album also includes two additional works by Tchaikovsky including the composer's own arrangement for cello and orchestra of his 'Nocturne' from 6 Pieces for Piano. 

Pablo Ferrández, born in Madrid in 1991 into a family of musicians, began studying at the Reina Sofía School of Music at age 13 with Natalia Shakhovskaya and later trained at the Kronberg Academy under Frans Helmerson. A scholar of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, he has performed with leading orchestras such as the Spanish National Orchestra and Helsinki Philharmonic, and collaborated with renowned conductors and chamber musicians. He has appeared at prestigious festivals including Verbier and Kronberg. Ferrández plays the 1696 "Lord Aylesford" Stradivarius, previously owned by Janos Starker, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation—the first Spaniard to receive such an honor.

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