Lionel Andrey & Flore Merlin
Color Gradient

Physical- and digital album release: 7 April 2023

Distribution: PIAS NL

Contact persons:
Label/ 7 Mountain Records NL: Frerik de Jong  info@7mntn.com
PR France: Florence Riou  florenceriou.com@gmail.com
PR Europe except France: Note Artists (Krystian Nowakowski)  k@no-te.com
Artist: Flore Merlin  merlin.flore@gmail.com, Lionel Andrey  lionelandrey@hotmail.com

Links:

CD booklet (click to read or download)

Promo video, with music and interview:

 

Promo video, music only:

 

Audio fragments:

Francis Poulenc  Sonate pour clarinette et piano FP 184: I. Allegro tristamente

 

Francis Poulenc  Sonate pour clarinette et piano FP 184: III. Allegro con fuoco

 

Alec Templeton  Pocket Size Sonata No.1: III. In Rhythm

 

Claude Debussy  Première Rhapsodie

 

Leonard Bernstein  Sonata for clarinet and piano: II. Andantino – Vivace e leggiero

 

Charles-Marie Widor  Introduction et rondo Op. 72

 

Daniel Schnyder  Sonata für Sopransaxophon und Piano: III. Schnell

 

Fabien Touchard  Envol (un sourire) (2022, première recording)

 

Full tracklist:

Charles-Marie Widor (1844 – 1937)

1. Introduction et rondo Op. 72 (1898) 7’44

Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)

2. Première Rhapsodie (1910) 7’43

Francis Poulenc  (1899 – 1963)

Sonate pour clarinette et piano FP 184 (1963)

3. I. Allegro tristamente 5’18

4. II. Romanza 4’46

5. III. Allegro con fuoco 3’20

Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)

Sonata for clarinet and piano (1943)

6. I. Grazioso 3’31

7. II. Andantino – Vivace e leggiero 6’36

Daniel Schnyder (*1961)

Sonata für Sopransaxophon und Piano (1995)

8. I. ♩ = 112 3’56

9. II. Langsam tempo rubato 2’53

10. III. Schnell 1’39

11. IV. Sehr schnell 3’51

Alec Templeton (1910 – 1963)

Pocket Size Sonata No.1 (edited by R. Denwood)

12. I. Improvisation 2’29

13. II. Modal Blues 3’01

14. III. In Rhythm 1’46

Fabien Touchard (*1985)

15. Envol (un sourire) (2022, première recording) 3’59