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Hans Gal - Music for Cello and Piano | Toccata Classics TOCC0043

Hans Gal - Music for Cello and Piano

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0043

Barcode: 5060113440433

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 23rd April 2012

Contents

Artists

Alfia Nakipbekova (cello)
Jakob Fichert (piano)

Works

Gal, Hans

Cello Sonata, op.89
Sonata for solo cello, op.109a
Suite for solo cello, op.109b

Artists

Alfia Nakipbekova (cello)
Jakob Fichert (piano)

About

Hans Gál (1890–1987) was born in one of the suburbs of Vienna and was one of the most successful composers in Austria and Germany when Hitler came to power. The Jewish Gál was forced to flee to Britain with his family in 1938, whereupon a meeting with Donald Tovey brought him to Edinburgh, where he became a much-loved figure in his adoptive town.

These three works demonstrate that he never lost his Viennese fondness for melody: his music is predominantly lyrical, within a contrapuntal framework, appealing to head and heart alike.

The Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op.89 was composed in 1953 and the two works for solo cello, the Suite and Sonata, in 1982 when he was 92 - almost the last music he wrote.

These recordings take their place in the ongoing rediscovery of Gál’s music on CD.

Alfia Nakipbekova is best known as one of the three sisters who form the Bekova Trio. She studied with Mstislav Rostropovich in Moscow but is also an important cultural figure in her native Kazakhstan.

Jakob Fichert has recorded for Naxos as well as for Toccata Classics.

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