Cellist Louise Dubin's new recording Passages released September 5, 2025 on Bridge Records
Featuring world premiere recordings of works by Auguste Franchomme and music by Debussy, Chopin, Fauré and more
Passages is a collection of French cello music spanning three centuries
With cellist Julia Bruskin and pianist Spencer Meyer
The cellist Louise Dubin is a renowned performer and researcher of cellist-composer Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884). Her new album Passages features world premiere recordings of works by Chopin and Franchomme alongside compositions by Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc, Charles Koechlin and Philippe Hersant. Dubin is joined by cellist Julia Bruskin and pianist Spencer Meyer on the album, which is released September 5, 2025 on Bridge Records (BRIDGE 9597).
Passages follows the release of Dubin's critically-acclaimed recording The Franchomme Project (Delos, 2015), which Strings Magazine called a “rare musical treat that unfolds with radiant energy,” and her publication Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme (Dover Publications, 2017).
Passages features the world premiere recordings of Franchomme's Nocturne, Op. 14/2; Air Irlandais, Variè, Op. 25/3; and his arrangement of Chopin's Étude, Op. 25/7. The album also includes a recently-discovered cello duo by Gabriel Fauré and Caprices for Two Cellos by Philippe Hersant (b. 1948), both performed with Julia Bruskin. The pianist Spencer Myer joins Dubin for sonatas by Claude Debussy and Charles Koechlin (Francis Poulenc's mentor) and the Sérénade by Poulenc.
The recording is produced by Steven Epstein and engineered by Epstein and Judith Sherman, both multiple Grammy-award winners.
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