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Enescu

from Impressions d'enfance, Op. 28

4:03

I.Ménétrier4:03

Poulenc

Violin Sonata, FP 119

19:16

I.Allegro con fuoco6:44

II.Intermezzo6:24

III.Presto tragico6:08

Lili Boulanger

from Two Pieces for violin & piano

3:22

I.Nocturne3:22

Jenő Hubay

Carmen Fantaisie Brillante, Op. 3 No. 3

10:39

Ravel

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G

17:41

I.Allegretto8:14

II.Blues: Moderato5:27

III.Perpetuum mobile: Allegro4:00

Debussy

Beau soir, L 84 (arr. Heifetz)

2:33

Recording date23-25 August 2021

Recording locationThe Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, UK

ProducerAndrew Keener

EngineerOscar Torres

Release date4 March 2022

LabelOrchid Classics

Catalogue numberORC100194

Duration57:34

With Coco Tomita (violin)

Coco Tomita chose every work on her début album herself, in the year after winning the strings final of BBC Young Musician 2020. The Poulenc and Ravel sonatas are its centre of gravity, with Enescu's Impressions d'enfance, Lili Boulanger's Nocturne, Hubay's Carmen Fantasy and Debussy's Beau soir around them — a programme that keeps circling back to the great women violinists of the early twentieth century, Ginette Neveu and Jelly d'Arányi among them. Simon Callaghan partners her throughout.

"It was an utter delight to collaborate with violinist Coco Tomita on her début album!" — Simon Callaghan