Happy Birthday, Auguste Franchomme!

Happy Birthday Franchomme!  The Cello-Bration begins today and goes all week, with one new live video here each day, and giveaways!  Here is the first: Franchomme’s Nocturne Op. 15, 1 performed by cellists Louise Dubin and Philippe Muller, at the recent edition of VioloncellenSeine in Paris, on 12/4/2016. https://youtu.be/ed9KuJN8EwU 

To hear this composition live, check out Steven Isserlis this weekend at London’s Wigmore Hall*

Or you can hear me perform it with Philippe Muller at our May concerts in NYC and at the Festival de Violoncelle de Beauvais in France:

7 pm, Thursday, May 11th  Rare French Cello Music at John Street Church 44 John Street, NY NY

www.johnstreetchurch.org 212-269-0014

Concert with cellists Louise Dubin and Philippe Muller and pianist Hélène Jeanney.  Sonatas by Debussy, Pierre de Bréville, Charles Koechlin, and shorter works by Jean Cras, Chopin and Auguste Franchomme. Click for program

Saturday, May 20th Festival de Violoncelle de Beauvais  directed by Emmanuelle Bertrand

Maladrerie Saint-Lazare, Beauvais, France

3 PM: UNE GÉNÉALOGIE DE VIOLONCELLISTES lecture by Philippe Muller

4 PM: FRANCHOMME PROJECT CONCERT featuring music on the album + 2 premieres, performed by Louise Dubin, Philippe Muller and Hélène Jeanney

6:30 PM: PERLES RARES Pt 1: Koechlin Sonata for cello and piano Louise Dubin with Hélène Jeanney, + performances by cellists Emmanuelle Bertrand, Philippe Muller, and Mathieu Lejeune

9 PM: PERLES RARES Pt. 2: Debussy Sonata Louise Dubin with Hélène Jeanney, + performances by cellists Philippe Muller, Emmanuelle Bertrand, and Mathieu Lejeune

*I sent Steven his copy.  For your own copy: the Dover edition of this and other Franchomme works with piano, with my Preface, will appear in May.  You can pre-purchase it now here.