WEB FLAC (tracks) – 301 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps – 168 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:40Classical | Label: BIS RecordsIn their liner notes for this string of estrellitas (‘small stars’), Elena Urioste and Tom Poster admit to a shared love for ‘an old-world, golden sound and for melodies that tug at the heartstrings’.

This has resulted in a deeply personal collection of miniatures full of winks, sighs and tears aimed at transporting the listener to bygone eras of fireside salon concerts.

With a few exceptions, including Elgar’s Chanson de Nuit and Salut d’amour, the pieces are arrangements by the great violinists of that bygone, golden age: Auer, Kreisler, Zimbalist, Heifetz … while the originals they are based upon range from Gluck’s Melodie from Orpheus and Euridice and Liszt’s Consolation No.

3 to Beau soir by Debussy and Estrellita by Manuel Ponce.

In a closing section Elena Urioste and Tom Poster also pay their respects to the Great American Songbook, with new arrangements, signed Tom Poster, of Moon River, When I Fall in Love and Over the Rainbow.

Elena Urioste, violinTom Poster, pianoTracklist:1. Kreisler: Preghiera in the Style of Martini 03:352. Kreisler: Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, B. 104: No. 4, Songs My Mother Taught Me (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano) 02:513. Liszt: Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D-Flat Major. Lento placido (Arr. N. Milstein for Violin & Piano) 04:144. Ponce: 2 Canciones Mexicanas: No. 2, Estrellita (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano) 02:595. Kreisler: Caprice viennois in B Minor, Op. 2 04:216. Achron: Hebrew Melody, Op. 33 05:107. Dushkin: Sicilienne in E-Flat Major (Attrib. M.T. von Paradis) 02:578. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: Melodie (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano) 03:259. Debussy: Beau soir, L. 6 (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano) 02:2210. Engel: Sea-Shell (Arr. E. Zimbalist for Violin & Piano) 03:2211. Elgar: Chanson de nuit, Op. 15 No. 1 03:4712. Heuberger: Der Opernball, Op. 40: Midnight Bells (Arr. F. Kreisler for Violin & Piano) 03:2713. Still: Suite for Violin & Piano: II. Mother & Child 06:0314. Elgar: Salut d’amour, Op. 12 “Liebesgruss” 02:3515. Kochanski: Suite populaire espagnole: V. Asturiana (After M. de Falla) 02:2316. Gershwin: Porgy & Bess: My Man’s Gone Now (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano) 03:4817. Mancini: Moon River (From “Breakfast at Tiffany’s) [Arr. T. Poster for 2 Violins & Piano] 03:4618. Young: When I Fall in Love (Arr. T. Poster for Violin & Piano) 03:1519. Arlen: Over the Rainbow (From “The Wizard of Oz”) [Arr. T. Poster for Violin & Piano] 02:58