Schubert & Brahms - The Complete Duos: Phantasie
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Label: EPR Classic
Cat No: EPRC018
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 29th June 2015
Contents
Works
Clarinet Sonata no.2 in E flat major, op.120 no.2 (cello)Suites (3) for solo cello, op.131c
Sonatina in G minor, D408 op.posth.137 no.3
Artists
Pieter Wispelwey (cello)Paolo Giacometti (piano)
Works
Clarinet Sonata no.2 in E flat major, op.120 no.2 (cello)Suites (3) for solo cello, op.131c
Sonatina in G minor, D408 op.posth.137 no.3
Artists
Pieter Wispelwey (cello)Paolo Giacometti (piano)
About
Can a virtuoso be expected to keep his hands off cherished chamber works because they were not written for his instrument? Should a passionate admirer of Schubert and Brahms really forego on 14 duos because he does not play the violin, the viola, the flute, or the arpeggione?
Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey doesn’t believe so. In his largest phonographic enterprise up to now, he embarks on a series of 6 CDs dedicated to the complete chamber duos by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. Teaming up with his trusted piano partner Paolo Giacometti, Wispelwey wants to demonstrate that music written by major Lied composers can rewardingly be played on the cello, the string instrument which most resembles the human voice.
On this first instalment of the Complete Duo series, Wispelwey confronts late works – Schubert’s sensational Fantasie D.934 and Brahms’ breathtakingly lyrical Clarinet Sonata op.120 no.2 – with the ebullient but unusually profound Sonatina D.409 Schubert wrote as a young man of 19.
Wispelwey and Giacometti have been called “exceptionally imaginative and impassioned performers” (American Record Guide), and their collaboration has spawned recordings rated as “fascinating, provocative, almost perverse” on account of their “immediacy and involvement” (Sunday Times). A previous Brahms project was hailed a “tremendous performance” on account of its “wonderfully imaginative and wide-ranging tonal qualities” (BBC Music Magazine).
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