Schubert & Brahms: The Duos
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Schubert & Brahms: The Duos
Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Paolo Giacemetti (piano)
[ Evil Penguin / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 28 October 2016
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The summer of 1886 was one of the most prolific in the life of Johannes Brahms. The alpine grandeur of Lake Thun and Brahms's buoyant holiday mood conjured up so many melodies that he declared he was "afraid to step on them". In a few weeks' time, Brahms produced two of his major chamber works, the Cello Sonata, op.99, and the Violin Sonata, op.100, that suits the cello delightfully. These chamber icons are aptly coupled to Schubert's blissfully uplifting Sonata, D574. Cello virtuoso Pieter Wispelwey is at once playful and profound in these summer works, and his interpretation is, from now on, open to debate in The Interpretation Room..
Wispelwey and Giacometti have been called "exceptionally imaginative and impassioned performers" (American Record Guide), and their collaboration has spawned recordings rated as "fascinating, provocative, almost perverse" on account of their "immediacy and involvement" (Sunday Times).
"Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti offer appropriately imperious performances of the first three moments and they're admirably light in the affable finale…these are fine performances, and if you're attracted by the notion of the transcribed pieces you couldn't do better" BBC Music
Tracks:
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Schubert: Sonata in A Major, D. 574 Op. post. 162
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
