Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto no.1, Cello Sonatas 2 & 3 | Harmonia Mundi HMM902210

Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto no.1, Cello Sonatas 2 & 3

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMM902210

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 27th January 2017

Contents

Artists

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)
Pascal Amoyel (piano)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Conductor

James Gaffigan

Works

Saint-Saens, Camille

Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33
Cello Sonata no.2 in F major, op.123
Cello Sonata no.3 in D major (unfinished), op. posth.

Artists

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)
Pascal Amoyel (piano)
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Conductor

James Gaffigan

About

‘That’s it done at last, this blasted sonata! Will it please or not? That is the question.’ So wrote Saint-Saëns, not without humour, of his second ‘quadruped’ for cello and piano. He adored the cello, as is shown by much more than the famous ‘Swan'. He wrote three sonatas for it, but unfortunately the last two movements of the Third Sonata have been lost and what is left survives only in manuscript. Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel play it here with emotion and total respect. The Concerto also included here is today one of the ‘musts’ of the concertante repertory for cello.

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