Cervetto / Zeller / Demicheli - Cervetto: Six Sonatas for Three Violoncellos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

More than 50 minutes from 'Mr. Jelly Lord' and orchestra, recorded in Coolidge Auditorium of Library of Congress 1938.

This New CD By Daniel Mu?Ller-Schott and Francesco Piemontesi Offers Three Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Works That Sum Up Several Chapters of 20th C. History That Go Far Beyond the Merely Musical. Sergei Prokofiev Displays a Masterly Serenity in His Songlike Sonata in C, Op. 119, Composed in 1949. It Makes Evident His Adjustment to the Cultural Politics of the Soviet Union - to Which This World-Famous Composer Had Returned Just Twelve Years Before - But Is Also Tailor-Made for An Exceptional Cello-Piano Duo. Dmitri Shostakovich's Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 Is No Less Marked By Fate. It Was on the Program of a Concert Tour Given By the Composer and His Cello Partner Viktor Kubatsky in 1936 When Shostakovich Was Put on the Stalinist Index of Undesirables, on Orders from the Very Top. Finally, Benjamin Britten's Sonata in C, Op. 65 Marked the Beginning of a Productive, Creative Friendship with Rostropovich That Was Established, Despite Many a Problem Posed By the Cold War, in Aldeburgh in 1961 When Performed By the Composer and Rostropovich.

Bohuslav Martinu is one of the world-famous composers of the 20th century. Inspired by his homeland's tribulations, he composed his Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1, dedicated to the brilliant French cellist Pierre Fournier. In America he found friends of Czech extraction. One of them was Frank Rybka, who earlier studied music in Brno with Leoš Janácek. The Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 is dedicated to Rybka. The Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 was composed in France and was dedicated to the memory of Hans Kindler, known to Martinu from his Paris days as an outstanding cellist and later conductor. Petr Nouzovský is being recognized as one of Europe's eminent cellist of his generation. He continues to collaborate with prominent conductors, such as Jakub Hruša, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Petr Altrichter, Caspar Richter and others. His recording of Bohuslav Martinu's complete works for cello and orchestra was awarded the 2017 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the 2018 Classic Prague Award. Gérard Wyss is much demanded as an accompanist as well as chamber musician, performing all over Europe. He has accompanied world's leading singers and soloists, such as Cecilia Bartoli, Nicolai Gedda and others