Chopin / Alkan - Cello Sonatas
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67624
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 29th September 2008
Contents
Artists
Alban Gerhardt (cello)Steven Osborne (piano)
Works
Cello Sonata, op.47Cello Sonata in G minor, op.65
Artists
Alban Gerhardt (cello)Steven Osborne (piano)
About
There are relatively few nineteenth-century cello sonatas. Even fewer have managed steadfastly to maintain a place in the current concert repertoire. Alkan’s splendid Sonata is a little-known work, but an immediately attractive one: ambitious, original, and replete with good tunes. Chopin’s Op 65 Sonata is a dense, complex work which baffled his contemporaries: it is revealed in this performance as a sophisticated example of two-part counterpoint, in which neither player consistently holds the centre-stage, and in which the interchange of voices is ever unpredictable.
Both works were written for the great French cellist Auguste-Joseph Franchomme who gave their premieres, with the composer at the piano in each case, in 1848 and 1857 respectively.
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