{"product_id":"ttk0064-the-boulanger-legacy","title":"The Boulanger Legacy","description":"Violinist Merel Vercammen returns to NativeDSD with her new album The Boulanger Legacy from TRPTK. The album follows her previous releases Silent City and The Zoo.\r\n\r\nOn The Boulanger Legacy, Vercammen not only plays the music with pianist Dina Ivanova, but she also wrote the album liner notes and ran a crowd funding campaign to fund the recording and its release! TRPTK tells NativeDSD \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“We’re so stoked about this one!”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\nThat Merel Vercammen is constantly looking for new challenges is something she proves with her new TRPTK production. ‘The Boulanger Legacy’ is a thematically curated album in which the music of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) and her students are the common thread. “\u003cem\u003eHer influence on the music of the twentieth century has been gigantic\u003c\/em\u003e,” Vercammen says. The school, of which she would become director in Fontainebleau, attracted many American music students. Various names such as Aaron Copland, Jean Françaix, Philip Glass, Daniel Barenboim, Elliott Carter, and Quincy Jones took lessons from her. Referring to her surname, there was talk of the “boulangerie,” as if she delivered composers like loaves of bread. The album includes works by her sister Lili Boulanger, Grażyna Bacewicz, Leonard Bernstein and Astor Piazzolla.\r\n\r\nThe three pieces by the young Lily Boulanger (1893-1918) that she wrote for violin and piano are featured with the expressive ‘D’un matin de printemps’ (1917) standing out. Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) enjoys great fame in her native country. Her music is highlighted here with the beautiful ‘Sonata No. 3 for Violin \u0026amp; Piano’ (1948). An early, modernist work by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) ‘Sonata for Violin and Piano’ (1979) features a series of variations in which he plays with form.\r\n\r\nAdditional color comes from “Le Grand Tango” (1982) by Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla, a piece he originally dedicated to the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Composer Sofia Gubaidulina arranged it for violin and piano. Vercammen and pianist Ivanova seem to step outside themselves for a moment in this special performance. Like no other, the duo lets the energy of the tango speak for itself! “We really had to make those rhythms our own,” Vercammen remarks.\r\n\r\nThe carefully constructed album concludes with the first movement, ‘Modéré,’ from Nadia Boulanger’s ‘Trois pièces.’ Melancholic music originally written for piano and cello but suited with a violin part by Vercammen.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eMerel Vercammen - Violin\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eDina Ivanova – Piano\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q3q8RCGzuiM[\/embed]","brand":"TRPTK","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739474342212,"sku":"TTK0064-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739474374980,"sku":"TTK0064-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739474407748,"sku":"TTK0064-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739474440516,"sku":"TTK0064-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739474473284,"sku":"TTK0064-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739474506052,"sku":"TTK0064-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739474538820,"sku":"TTK0064-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739474571588,"sku":"TTK0064-18","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739474604356,"sku":"TTK0064-19","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739474637124,"sku":"TTK0064-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739474669892,"sku":"TTK0064-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739474702660,"sku":"TTK0064-23","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57338674512196,"sku":"TTK0064-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57338674544964,"sku":"TTK0064S1417","price":31.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57338674577732,"sku":"TTK0064S1517","price":32.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57338674610500,"sku":"TTK0064S1617","price":34.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/TTK0064.jpg?v=1778483466","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/ttk0064-the-boulanger-legacy","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}