Album description:
Spanish/Dutch horn player José Sogorb, 3rd Horn at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, releases Mélodies Volées, a multifaceted hommage to melody. ‘Voler’ means ‘stolen’ in French. Stealing a melody or (better) using its ‘DNA’, is a phenomenon which is from all times. To whom does a melody actually belong? On this sublimely versatile album José investigates this question. He does this in close relation with the splendid pianist Éadaoin Copeland on the majority of the program and featuring José’s RCO colleagues Miriam Pastor Burgos, Mark Braafhart and Rob Dirksen. On Mélodies Volées, you’ll be treated with impeccable horn playing with repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach, Schubert, Brahms, De Falla, Pärt, semi-improvised music, finalised by a freshly made arrangement of a Björk song that flows back again to Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (who was a contemporary of Bach).

Physical- and digital album release: 20 October 2023

Available as a physical copy at e.g.
bol.com
amazon.nl

Featuring musicians:
José Sogorb: horn and mellophone
Éadaion Copeland: piano
Mark Braafhart: drums (tr.7)
Rob Dirksen: double bass (tr.7)
Miriam Pastor Burgos: English horn (tr.12)

Teaser video:

 

photo by Lin Woldendorp

Audio fragments:

J.S. Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G Major, BWV1007 (arr. by José Sogorb): IV.Sarabande

 

JS Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G Major, BWV1007 (arr. by José Sogorb): VI.Gigue

 

Dimitri Tiomkin Wild is the Wind (arr. by Floris Kappeyne, José Sogorb & Éadaoin Copeland)

 

Manuel de Falla Siete canciones populares españolas: III. Asturiana (arr. by José Sogorb)

 

Reynaldo Hahn L’Énamourée (arr. by José Sogorb)

 

Erroll Garner Misty (arr. by Floris Kappeyne)

 

Niccolo Paganini Caprice No.24 (arr. by José Sogorb)

 

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel Aria: Bist du bei mir, BWV508 (arr. by José Sogorb & Éadaoin Copeland)