Elena Urioste * Theme Varie [New CD] 2025-02-21 Artilect B1

Artilect B1

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as opposed to 2024's Juno Award-nominated Anniversary (recorded in Niagara with Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker) and 2022's acclaimed Stolen Time (recorded in Montreal with Howard Bilerman

traditional Irish melodies

finds her plunging headlong into electronica

Elena Urioste * Theme Varie [New CD] 2025-02-21 Artilect B1Conceived as a treasure trove of lesser known French and Belgian repertoire, the works on this album span a forty year period, from 1892 to 1932. A number of unifying threads run through the programme, perhaps the most significant of which is the influence of a composer whose music is not heard here at all: Cesar Franck. Franck taught and championed Guillaume Lekeu and Mel Bonis; and Bonis in turn taught Charlotte Sohy, whose principal composition