Charlotte! Adieu!

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Label
Ars Produktion
Release Date
May 15, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Fernando Sor
    • PERFORMER
      Philipp Schmidt
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 15, 2026
    • UPC
      4260052386965
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ARS38696
    • LABEL
      Ars Produktion
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Guitar
    Works ⌄

    1. Le calme, caprice, Op. 50

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    2. 12 Studies, Op. 29: No. 13 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    3. 24 Studies, Op. 31, "Lecons progressives": Study No. 21 in F Major

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    4. 24 Studies, Op. 35, "Exercises": Study No. 16 in D Minor

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    5. 24 Studies, Op. 31, "Lecons progressives": Study No. 15 in B Minor

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    6. 12 Studies, Op. 6: No. 8 in C Major

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    7. Introduction and Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op. 9

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    8. 12 Studies, Op. 29: No. 17 in C Major

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    9. 24 Studies, Op. 31, "Lecons progressives": Study No. 20 in A Minor

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    10. No. 23 in G Major

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    11. No. 12 in A Major

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    12. No. 6 in A Major

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt

    13. Fantasia No. 13, Op. 59, "Fantaisie elegiaque"

      Composer: Fernando Sor

      Performer: Philipp Schmidt


With Charlotte! Adieu!, guitarist Philipp Schmidt dedicates his album to the young musician Charlotte Beslay (nee Levavasseur), a student of Fernando Sor and a talented pianist whose playing is said to have impressed even Rossini. Her early death in 1835 - she died at the age of only about twenty while giving birth to her son - left a deep impression on Sor. In moving memory of her, he composed the Fantaisie elegiaque, Op. 59, whose conclusion bears the words 'Charlotte! Adieu!': a musical farewell full of sincerity and sorrow. In addition to this central work, the album presents selected etudes, lecons, and character pieces from Op. 6, Op. 29, Op. 31, and Op. 35, as well as the meditative miniature Le Calme, Op. 50, and the virtuoso Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 9. On a historical Romantic guitar, Philipp Schmidt allows Sor's music to shine anew in it's original clarity, warmth, and poetic expressiveness.