Cello Sonata (with works by Goldmark & Korngold)

The compositions on this disc not only present a wide range of recipes for effective and enjoyable chamber music, they also serve as a study in ethics. Is music for culinary delight or spiritual elevation, food for the body or the soul, stuff for the playhouse or the temple? Over the six decades covered by these six compositions, our three composers vary their stance on this question according to changes of taste, socio-political climate, geographical location - or of sheer necessity.