The Russian Album: Rachmaninov & Shostakovich - Cello Sonatas
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Label: Avie
Cat No: AV2410
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 1st November 2019
Contents
Works
New York HonkThe Love for Three Oranges, op.33
In Imitation of Albeniz (arr. Christoph Croise)
Cello Sonata in D minor, op.40
Artists
Christoph Croise (cello)Alexander Panfilov (piano)
Works
New York HonkThe Love for Three Oranges, op.33
In Imitation of Albeniz (arr. Christoph Croise)
Cello Sonata in D minor, op.40
Artists
Christoph Croise (cello)Alexander Panfilov (piano)
About
In the spring of 2019, Christoph Croisé scored a break-through with his critically acclaimed recording of Haydn’s Cello Concertos (AV2402). With The Russian Album, he turns his attention to two towering 20th-century masterpieces, Sergei Rachmaninov’s early, eloquent and emotional Sonata for Cello and Piano, op.19, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s D minor Sonata for Cello and Piano, op.40.
The latter work’s finale featured what would become the composer’s signature style of caricature and irony that proved too provocative to the Stalinist regime. Croisé also offers two “encores” - his own transcriptions of the March from Sergei Prokofiev’s propulsive opera The Love for Three Oranges, and Rodion Shchedrin’s flambouyant In the Style of Albéniz - and a bonus track by his compatriot, the Swiss cellist and composer Thomas Demenga, New York Honk, a humourous homage to the Big Apple’s cacophonous traffic noises.
“a recording teeming with sparkle and relentless in fizz.” - Gramophone
“brilliant performances of both Haydn concertos. He combines virtuosity with an almost humble and yet self-confident view of the music” - Pizzicato “Supersonic”
“Thumpingly good” - BBC Music Magazine
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