Debussy/ Dervaux/ Mazari - ImpressionsSophie Dervaux's debut album on Berlin Classics is very much in the French tradition. Together with her French colleague, pianist Slim Mazari, the bassoonist presents works on this concept album Impressions that are by composers of various eras, including Debussy, Saint Sans, Ravel, Faur and Koechlin. The bassoon unusually takes the stage as a soloist and so fulfils the purpose that the Vienna Phil bassoonist had in mind: to present the unique singing

imaginative and intimate

Reunited with his former colleague

Robbie Yates

creating drones that shift in tone by using the modulation matrix and the mod wheel to accurately achieve the desired tone and add movement

The tracklist and fulsome sleeve notes have been put together by Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne) and Martin Green (Smashing

Ricardo Silveira and others

touching laments

Victor Julien-Laferrière also won the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2018 in the category 'Soloist of the Year'

This World Is Not My Home

The Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir and they originally came together to appear on and make a very significant contribution to Jim Byrnes' 2007 Juno Award winning CD House of Refuge

The result is a uniquely personal statement brimming with color and optimism even as it ponders universal themes of introspection and loneliness-a record that could only have been made by Mitch Davis

Christian Lindberg has also been composing