Gordon Epperson - Sonatas for Cello - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. Album Tracks 1. Andante Grave 2. Moderato 3. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 4. Dialogo. Allegro 5. Scherzo Pizzicato. Allegretto 6. Elegia. Lento 7. Marcia. Energico 8. Moto Perpetuo. Presto 9. Allegro Non Troppo - Largo 10. Allegro 11. Largo 12. Allegro

Yan Levionnois made a name for himself with his very first album, Cello Sollo, released by Fondamenta in 2013, garnering the prestigious InchffffInch tag awarded by Télérama magazine. This was followed by Pierrots Lunaires, with violinist Mélanie Clapiès, also brought out by Fondamenta. Guillaume Bellom has taken an unconventional path, training as both a pianist and a violinist, and was also awarded Télérama magazine's esteemed InchffffInch tag for an album dedicated to Schubert in 2013. In 2017 he was nominated in the Instrumental Revelation category at the French Victoires de la Musique. Cello Sonatas is devoted to the German romantic repertoire and features Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor D. 821, Mendelssohn's Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in D Major, Op. 58 and the more rarely recorded Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6, by Richard Strauss. Schubert is honored with a performance of his Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano. Don't try looking out for an arpeggione - only about a dozen of these instruments have survived to the present day. It was a hybrid of a guitar and cello, played with a bow, but which never gained popularity. The eponymous sonata, on the other hand, is still considered as one of Schubert's major works. Mendelssohn composed the Sonata Number 2 for Cello and Piano in 1843, almost 20 years after Schubert's composition. Mendelssohn made an early start at the age of 12, he composed an opera, and his famous octet was written when he was 16. This sonata is classical in both it's form and musical inspiration, a real gem. Mendelssohn was not only a great composer, but he also revived the music of J.S. Bach Album Tracks 1. Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D.821~Allegro moderato 2. Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D.821~Adagio 3. Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D.821~Allegretto 4.

Album Tracks 1. Allegro Non Troppo 2. Allegro 3. Largo 4. Allegro 5. Andante Grave 6. Moderato 7. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 8. Dialogo (Allegro) 9. Scherzo-Pizzicato (Allegretto) 10. Elegia (Lento) 11. Marcia (Energico) 12. Moto Perpetuo (Presto)