Pablo Ferrández – Moonlight Variations (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Pablo Ferrández – Moonlight Variations (2025)
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Star cellist Pablo Ferrández has realized a twenty-year dream to record Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations on his latest album for Sony Classical, combining the spirited work with melancholy nocturnes to create Moonlight Variations – an album he describes as ‘night followed by day.’

The night-time has long fascinated Ferrández. On his new album, he assembles eleven handpicked gems by composers from Antonín Dvořák to Manuel Ponce that speak of the heighted emotional intimacy of the dark hours. The cellist has arranged songs, piano nocturnes, violin works and an opera aria. ‘I feel more creative at night,’ says the cellist. ‘I’m not alone in that. So many composers have written special music connected to this time. They all felt a difference in the world once the sun had gone down.’

In addition to Tchaikovsky’s extended variation set, recorded in Örebro with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Martin Fröst, Ferrández includes movements from Liszt’s Liebestraum and Schumann’s Kinderszenen, transcriptions of piano nocturnes by Chopin and songs by Schubert and Debussy. The album also includes two additional works by Tchaikovsky including the composer’s own arrangement for cello and orchestra of his ‘Nocturne’ from 6 Pieces for Piano.

Tracklist:

1-1. Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Martin Frost, Pablo Ferrández – Rusalka, Op. 114, Act I: Song to the Moon (05:03)
1-2. Julien Quentin, Pablo Ferrández – Beau soir, L. 84 (02:41)
1-3. Pablo Ferrández – Nacht und Träume, D. 827 (03:27)
1-4. Pablo Ferrández – Nocturne No. 20 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth. (03:58)
1-5. Julien Quentin, Pablo Ferrández – 6 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 6. Valse sentimentale (02:06)
1-6. Pablo Ferrández – Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3 in A-Flat Major (04:33)
1-7. Pablo Ferrández – Kinderszenen, Op.15: No. 7. Träumerei (03:01)
1-8. Pablo Ferrández – Nocturne in D Minor, Op. 19 (04:19)
1-9. Pablo Ferrández – Estrellita (03:06)
1-10. Pablo Ferrández – Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42: No. 3 Mélodie (03:41)
1-11. Julien Quentin, Pablo Ferrández – Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (04:07)
1-12. Pablo Ferrández – Introduction – Moderato quasi andante (00:57)
1-13. Pablo Ferrández – Thema – Moderato semplice (01:35)
1-14. Pablo Ferrández – Var. 1 – Tempo della Thema (00:51)
1-15. Pablo Ferrández – Var. 2 – Tempo della Thema (01:13)
1-16. Pablo Ferrández – Var. 3 – Andante sostenuto (03:44)
1-17. Pablo Ferrández – Var. 4 – Andante grazioso (02:15)
1-18. Pablo Ferrández – Var. 5 – Allegro moderato – Cadenza (04:21)
1-19. Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Martin Frost, Pablo Ferrández – Var. 6 – Andante (02:53)
1-20. Pablo Ferrández – Var. 7 e Coda – Allegro vivo (02:06)

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