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Making dreams cry.<\/p>\n
Ravel\u2019s unknown, tender sonata fragment, Poulenc\u2019s dramatic, sad violin sonata and Prokofiev\u2019s dark sonata in F Minor. Guro Kleven Hagen and Marianna Shirinyan have chosen profound music for their first release together. The album\u2019s first piece derives from a sonata written by Ravel in 1897 at the age of 22 \u2013 the same age as Hagen \u2013 which was discarded and not rediscovered until 1975. In this movement, many of the shifts and the poetic expression that became Ravel\u2019s trademark are apparent. In 1942\/43, while his country suffered from horrible war, Francis Poulenc wrote his only published violin sonata. Premiered by David Oistrakh in 1946, Sergei Prokofiev\u2019s first violin sonata concludes the program. The artists themselves say: \u2018Dreams can be crushed into tears during the horrors of war. In the same way, as in these three sonatas by Ravel, Poulenc and Prokofiev, music has the ability to make us day-dream and to recall our tears and strong emotions.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Ravel\u2019s unknown, tender sonata fragment, Poulenc\u2019s dramatic, sad violin sonata and Prokofiev\u2019s dark sonata in F Minor. Guro Kleven Hagen and Marianna Shirinyan have chosen profound music for their first release together.<\/p>\n
The album\u2019s first piece derives from a sonata written by Ravel in 1897 at the age of 22 \u2013 the same age as Hagen \u2013 which was discarded and not rediscovered until 1975. In this movement many of the shifts and the poetic expression that became Ravel\u2019s trademark are apparent.<\/p>\n
In 1942\/43, while his country suffered from horrible war, Francis Poulenc wrote his only published violin sonata. The piece was dedicated to the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed in the Spanish Civil War. The subtitle of this slow movement, \u2018La guitar fait pleurer les songes\u2019 (The guitar makes the dreams cry), a line from one of Lorca\u2019s poems, provides the title for the present release. Premiered by David Oistrakh in 1946, Sergei Prokofiev\u2019s first violin sonata concludes the program. As with Poulenc\u2019s sonata, this piece was written with the 2nd world war as a dramatic backdrop. Oistrakh himself is quoted as saying: \u2018nothing written for violin for many years, here or anywhere else, has the beauty or depth to match this piece\u2019.<\/p>\n
Guro Kleven Hagen, born 1994, hails from the mountainous Norwegian region of Valdres. She plays a C. Bergonzi, that has belonged to, among others, masters Fritz Kreisler and Itzhak Perlman. After her recording debut in 2014 Hagen has been a much-sought after soloist with orchestras in Europe and Asia. Moreover, she is a diligent chamber musician playing festivals both at home and abroad along with artists Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes, Maxim Rysanov and Shlomo Mintz. Hagen is also the artistic director of the chamber music festival Valdres Sommersymfoni, and has been picked for the prestigious Crescendo-programme. <\/p>\n
Armenian-born Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and in demand pianists on the European scene today. As a soloist, she is a mainstay with many of the largest festivals. She has received Danish Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s renowned P2 award for her contribution to Danish music. Shirinyan is professor of the piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music, a Steinway artist and artistic director at the Fejoe Chamber Music Festival in Denmark.<\/p>\n
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