Recordings | Ilaria Brun

Night Songs

Lantern Records, March 2026

Ilaria Brun, cello

Tomas Hale, piano

The duo's tenth-anniversary record: Fauré, Debussy and Poulenc, recorded close and late in a converted chapel — sonatas played the way they feel at the end of a recital rather than the beginning.

Fauré — Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Finale: Allegro commodo

Debussy — Sonata in D minor

I. Prologue

II. Sérénade

III. Finale

Poulenc — Sonata, FP 143

I. Allegro — Tempo di Marcia

II. Cavatine

III. Ballabile

IV. Finale

Fauré — Élégie, Op. 24

“Night Songs is that rare duo record on which nobody accompanies anybody: Brun and Hale play the Debussy like two people finishing each other's arguments, and the Fauré like an apology neither will make out loud.” ★★★★★
The Chamber Review, on Night Songs

Listen Night Songs — album booklet (PDF)

Alone in a Room: Kodály, Britten, Dutilleux

Lantern Records, October 2024

Ilaria Brun, cello

Solo cello, recorded in an empty hall in January with the heating off: the Kodály sonata, Britten's first suite, and the Dutilleux strophes — music that asks the player to hold a room with nothing in reserve.

Record of the Month — The Chamber Review

Elgar: Cello Concerto · Bridge: Oration

Greyline Classics, June 2019

Ilaria Brun, cello

The Averill Sinfonia

Aksel Storm, conductor

Made in her final season as the Averill's principal cello — the concerto she grew up on, with the orchestra that watched her grow into it.