Cello Sonata Op.47 (with Liszt - Elegies, La Lugubre Gondole, etc)
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CHARLES ALKAN
Cello Sonata Op.47 (with Liszt - Elegies, La Lugubre Gondole, etc)
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 25 July 2014
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Transcendental virtuosity.
The names of those two illustrious nineteenth-century pianists, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Franz Liszt, are generally associated with a style founded on transcendental virtuosity. Yet both the late works of Liszt, with their funereal and elegiac character, and the splendid Cello Sonata op.47 that Alkan wrote in the middle years of the century, reflect a shared ideal of purified expression and a poetic vision of instrumental music. Chamber music came to be the favoured vehicle for the manifestation of meditative, spiritual and experimental tendencies in the two artists, both of whom possessed a high degree of literary, musical and religious culture.
"A stimulating recital - well thought-through, intelligently played and beautifully recorded."
- Gramophone February 2002
"The British duo modulates sonorities and dynamic range with seemingly limitless variety (Constance Himelfarb, incidentally, writes of 'metaphysical depth' in these pieces) and produces deftly persuasive, naturally empathetic interpretations. Bertrand's eruptive Alkan performance is astounding, however, and unrivalled in the catalogue." (BBC Music)
"this is a refreshing collection where the virtuosity of composers and performers is met with disarming humility." (MusicWeb Sept 2014)
Tracks:
Charles Alkan (1813 - 1888)
Sonate de concert op.47
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
[Première] Elégie
Deuxième Elégie
La Lugubre Gondole
Romance oubliée S.132
Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth S.382
