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Schubert & Brahms - The Complete Duos: Coda | EPR Classic EPRC030

Schubert & Brahms - The Complete Duos: Coda

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Label: EPR Classic

Cat No: EPRC030

Barcode: 0608917721720

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 14th June 2019

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The fifth and last instalment of the Schubert-Brahms chamber duo recordings by Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti. These artists have recorded the complete chamber duos by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms on 6 CDs and 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).

On this generous last instalment of their Schubert-Brahms pilgrimage, Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti serve us three iconic sonatas, including a world premiere. In its original hue of G major, Brahms’s First Violin Sonata, op.78, is more scintillating and transparent than the D major cello adaptation, and much more enchanting in its opening Vivace.

Brahms’s Third Violin Sonata, op.108, fuses surprising ebullience with superior mastery of form, in an epic piece which is an undiluted kick in the groin when played on a cello. And thankfully, Pieter and Paolo revisit Schubert’s Arpeggione, that gem of intimacy, fragility, frivolity and humbling, unattainable beauty. A fitting finale, in all respects.

Reviews

Pieter Wispelwey’s multi-album mission to record all of Brahms’s and Schubert’s duos – not just the ones for cello – has struck a special chord with me over the course of its creation. ... Top of my personal pops is Wispelwey’s opener, Brahms’s Violin Sonata in G major... Wispelwey’s G major repatriation has reintroduced all the original’s soft, autumnal intimacy, further offset by the cello’s own more dulcet tones. It’s a winner, and I hope other cellists begin to follow suit.  Charlotte Gardner
Gramophone November 2019

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