On September 5, 2025, Bridge Records released our second album, Passages, featuring more premiere recordings of French compositions from Franchomme’s era up to the present day. You’ll find cello duos by Franchomme, Fauré and living composer Philippe Hersant, that I recorded with Julia Bruskin (who also played on The Franchomme Album with me). Passages also includes a gorgeous but unknown sonata for cello and piano by Charles Koechlin, the well-loved sonata by Debussy, and shorter pieces by Chopin, Franchomme and Poulenc which I present with pianist Spencer Myer. Watch some of our session takes here! Our producer is again the multiple Grammy-award winning Steve Epstein, who shares engineering credits this time with Judith Sherman, another multiple Grammy-award winner.  

The Franchomme and Chopin works included are recorded here for the first time ever, and the music is found in my Dover publication Selected Works for Cello and Piano by Auguste Franchomme (which also contains original French editions for music on The Franchomme Project).

CDs and digital copies of Passages available at our shop, where 100% of proceeds go to support the artists! Copies of Passages will also be available at our release concerts — New York City on 10/25, 7 pm and Yonkers, NY on 10/26 at 3pm, featuring Louise Dubin, Julia Bruskin, John Novacek, Dena Levine and Philippe Muller.  

Passages: French Cello Works, is featured in the January 2026 issue of Strings Magazine! You can read their review here.

Passages was reviewed in the January/February edition of The Wholenote!

Thank you Textura, for your thoughtful review of our new album, Passages: French Cello Works! Go Team!

I'm grateful to Classical Department Director Charlie Kusiel King for having me @WKCRFM this Tuesday to discuss our new album Passages! Charlie kindly provided me this recording of our interview: https://youtu.be/_6Z9gk9-o5w

Thank you WFMT for featuring Passages this week of Nov. 10th as a favorite release!

Le Violoncelle listed our Passages release in its November issue!

Watch Louise Dubin's discussion about all things cello with Benjamin Whitcomb on his Cello Chat video podcast from Sept 5, 2025!

Thanks to Joel Dallow for discussing Passages and cello life with me on his CelloSherpa podcast's 10/17/2025 episode! "Tracks, Treasures, & Treble Clefs" - An Interview with Cellist and Franchomme Scholar, Louise DubinOur new CD, Passages: French Cello Works, became available in Europe on October 31st. And well-timed for the occasion, our album has just received this thoughtful review from the UK's Music Web International! https://musicwebinternational.com/2025/10/passages-french-cello-music-bridge/

Thank you Classical Music Sentinel and Jean-Yves Duperron for this thoughtful review of our new album Passages! http://www.classicalmusicsentinel.com/collections/passages.html

Please see our NEWS page for more acclaim for and reviews of Passages! Click here for a document containing reviews of Passages.

Passages décrit en français

The Franchomme Project album was released on the Delos label in the US and Canada on September 11th, 2015, and became available to the rest of the world through Naxos in November. It received critical acclaim in the US, England, France and Canada, won multiple radio station awards, and continues to enjoy worldwide airplay. It includes 10 world premiere recordings and extensive liner notes written by Louise Dubin, with previously unpublished information and photos collected during her research trips in France. A French translation of her notes by a direct descendant of Franchomme is also included. CD orders placed through this website's shop include a bonus 24-bit hi-resolution cello duo track!

Click here for a document containing reviews of The Franchomme Project album and concerts, as well as information about NPR interviews. Click here for the Franchomme Project's Naxos catalog announcement. Click here for postings about Louise and The Franchomme Project from the Delos website.