Beethoven: Complete sonatas & variations for cello & piano
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete sonatas & variations for cello & piano
Gautier Capucon (cello) Frank Braley (piano)
[ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 March 2019
Following on from last year's live recording of the Shostakovich cello concertos, this album sees Gautier return to the studio with his friend and recital partner of many years, Frank Braley, in a programme of Beethoven's Sonatas for Cello and Piano. In addition the album includes Beethoven's wonderful variations on three different themes - two on arias from Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte, and the other from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. This is the first new recording of the complete Beethoven cello works for some time and is a long-awaited release.
Gautier Capuçon has a firm reputation as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is a regular performer with the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, NHK Symphony, and at festivals such as Verbier and Lugano, and has won several awards at the ECHOS and the Victoires de la Musique.
"This can be regarded as the go-to set for lovers of Beethoven's works for cello and piano. Capuçon and Bailey are fine musicians and their performances can be regarded as top-notch. There is an ideal balance with both instruments, each having pleasant tonalities." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks
"Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley deliver well-honed interpretations of these masterworks, offering perfect unanimity of ensemble and admirable clarity of texture throughout. The duo is at its best in the three sets of Variations where they manage to encapsulate a wide range of contrasting moods and timbres to impressive effect" BBC Music
"With Beethoven there's always room for one more interpretation, and the quality of this new set is not in doubt…such is the quality of the musicianship that there are always plenty of fresh insights…the partnership is one of Classical balance, and the result is by turns poised, polished, intimate and exuberant…undeniably a class act" Gramophone
Tracks:
Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5 No. 1
Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2
Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 102 No. 1
Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102 No. 2
Variations (7) on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46
Variations (12) on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" for Cello and Piano, Op. 66
Variations (12) on "See the conquering hero comes" for Cello and Piano, WoO 45
