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Chopin / Alkan - Cello Sonatas | Hyperion CDA67624

Chopin / Alkan - Cello Sonatas

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67624

Barcode: 0034571176246

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 29th September 2008

Penguin Guide 4 stars

Contents

Artists

Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Steven Osborne (piano)

Works

Alkan, Charles Valentin

Cello Sonata, op.47

Chopin, Frederic

Cello Sonata in G minor, op.65

Artists

Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Steven Osborne (piano)

About

This recording of two great Romantic cello sonatas features the mercurial duo of cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne, both musicians of dazzling technical and interpretative abilities. Gerhardt is known for his passionate commitment to lesser-known nineteenth-century repertoire through his coruscating performances in Hyperion’s Romantic Cello Concerto series, and in this chamber disc he reaches an even higher level of thrilling intensity.

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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