Press Release

August 18, 2025

For Immediate Release

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 has spent decades researching the life and music 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.

Contact ClassicalCommunications@gmail.com to request a physical CD or digital copy of this recording.

Passages

French Cello Works

Louise Dubin, cello

Spencer Myer, piano

Julia Bruskin, cello

Release date: September 5, 2025

Bridge Records (BRIDGE 9597)

• Digital album HERE
• Cover art HERE
• Digital booklet HERE
• Louise Dubin DPK HERE

Track Listing

Charles Koechlin

Sonate Pour Violoncelle et Piano, Op. 66 (13:50)

[01] Très Modéré (3:25)

[02] Andante quasi Adagio (3:01)

[03] Final (7:23)

Louise Dubin, cello; Spencer Myer, piano

Gabriel Fauré

[04] Allegro Moderato pour deux Violoncelles (1:03)

Louise Dubin, cello 1; Julia Bruskin, cello 2

Fryderyk Chopin, arr. Auguste Franchomme

[05] Étude, Op. 25/7 (4:53)

Louise Dubin, cello; Spencer Myer, piano

Francis Poulenc, arr. Maurice Gendron

[06] Sérénade (2:21)

Louise Dubin, cello; Spencer Myer, piano

Auguste Franchomme

[07] Nocturne, Op. 14/2 pour le Violoncelle avec accompaniment d’un second Violoncelle (3:47)

Louise Dubin, cello 1; Julia Bruskin, cello 2

Auguste Franchomme

[08] Air Irlandais, Variè, pour violoncelle et piano, Op. 25/3 (9:35)

Louise Dubin, cello; Spencer Myer, piano

Philippe Hersant

Caprices pour 2 violoncelles (3:42)

[09] Champs mornes (1:48)

[10)]Encore un petit ornement... (0:53)

[11] Un combat... (1:01)

Louise Dubin, cello 1; Julia Bruskin, cello 2

Claude Debussy

Sonate pour Violoncelle et Piano (10:54)

[12] Prologue (3:59)

[13] Sérénade (3:14)

[14] Finale (3:41)

Louise Dubin, cello; Spencer Myer, piano

Total time=50:13