Mendelssohn / Chopin: Cello Sonatas

"it's the two sonatas that show them both at their best - the Mendelssohn is dashingly well played, set out off like a rocket in the opening movement and only pausing for breath in the third-movement Adagio, while in the Chopin it's Giacometti who frequently takes the lead, though the interweaving of cello and piano is beautifully engineered by both players."
(Guardian)

"[Giacometti] and Pieter Wispelwey give Mendelssohn's D major Cello Sonata Op 58 with fluency and panache. Between that sonata and an eloquently voiced one of Chopin's in G minor, Wispelwey shows his mettle in some Chopin waltz arrangements."
(Daily Telegraph)

"That Paolo Giacometti has opted for a twangy fortepiano of the period may not add to the beauty of the performance but it makes for a better balance between the instruments than if a modern Steinway was used. It also allows for the pianist to articulate perfectly in really fast speeds. The clarity and precision are also remarkable."
(Gramophone)

"[The Mendelssohn is] a wonderfully uplifting outburst of high spirits, generously and elegantly formed. Wispelwey always brings such a range of texture to his articulation and such airy luminescence to lyric passages that he is a well-nigh ideal exponent, matched by the ultra-sensitive Paolo Giacometti" BBC Music