Beethoven - Complete Sonatas & Variations for Cello & Piano
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Label: Onyx
Cat No: ONYX4178
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th December 2016
Contents
Works
Cello Sonata no.1 in F major, op.5 no.1Cello Sonata no.2 in G minor, op.5 no.2
Cello Sonata no.3 in A major, op.69
Cello Sonata no.4 in C major, op.102 no.1
Cello Sonata no.5 in D major, op.102 no.2
Variations (7) on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen' for cello and piano, WoO46
Variations (12) on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, op.66
Variations (12) on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes', WoO45
Artists
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)Shai Wosner (piano)
Works
Cello Sonata no.1 in F major, op.5 no.1Cello Sonata no.2 in G minor, op.5 no.2
Cello Sonata no.3 in A major, op.69
Cello Sonata no.4 in C major, op.102 no.1
Cello Sonata no.5 in D major, op.102 no.2
Variations (7) on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen' for cello and piano, WoO46
Variations (12) on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, op.66
Variations (12) on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes', WoO45
Artists
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)Shai Wosner (piano)
About
The third sonata Op.69 dates from the composer’s ‘middle period’, and is contemporary with the Fourth and Fifth symphonies and the Razumovsky string quartets. It is one of his greatest chamber compositions, a work of great beauty, full of surprises and seemingly limitless inventiveness.
The two sonatas of Op.102 were composed at the beginning of Beethoven’s visionary ‘late period’ and rub shoulders with the last violin sonata, the piano sonatas Nos. 27, 28 and 29 ‘Hammerklavier’. Beethoven’s later fascination with the baroque fugue surfaces not only at the end of the ‘Hammerklavier’ but also in the finale of the fifth sonata, reaching its apex in the ‘Grosse Fugue’ Op.133 a few years later.
These performances were recorded immediately after live performances at Wigmore Hall, the culmination of a tour of all five Sonatas and the Variations across the USA and the UK in conjunction with Texas-born Ralph Kirshbaum’s
70th birthday.
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