Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
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CHOPIN / RACHMANINOFF
Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 September 2022
After Beethoven, Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras now turn to two more giants of the repertory. Chopin's Cello Sonata, his last work published in his lifetime, seems almost like a testament, sombre and tormented - a world away from the radiance and surging lyricism of the youthful work by Rachmaninoff that it inspired. These two masterpieces by composers from the two chronological extremities of Romanticism, both pianists above all, are ideally placed in perspective here.
"Playing [the Rachmaninov] on a modern Steinway, Melnikov's masterful fluency in the tumultuous piano writing is beautifully balanced in relation to the cello part; and Queyras's delivery of this flows and sings with a freedom that enthrals the ear" BBC Music
"Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov somehow manage to contain the overgrowth and shape the profusion of ideas into a cultivated and warmly lit musical garden." Gramophone
"I could listen to the two performers' renditions of both works for hours, so absorbing are these beautifully captured recordings." The Sunday Times
Tracks:
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo
III. Largo
IV. Finale - Allegro
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
I. Lento - Allegro moderato
II. Allegro scherzando
III. Andante
IV. Allegro mosso
