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Brahms – Cello Sonatas

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Catalogue numberBIS-1606 SACD
Release date2010-03-30
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time82:26

Torleif Thedéen and Roland Pöntinen made their first recording together almost 25 years ago and have continued to play together ever since, in recital and on disc. They have recorded works by Prokofiev and Anton Webern, by Shostakovich and Hindemith, by Chopin and Schumann. Now the turn has come to Johannes Brahms' two cello sonatas, central works in the repertoire of all cellists and often on the programme when this particular team gives a recital. Brahms himself was an excellent pianist, and among the string instruments he felt a particular affinity with the cello. Both of these facts are obvious from the sonatas that he wrote for the combination - the two most important works in the genre after Beethoven. Included on this amply filled disc (more than 80 minutes of music!) is also a version for cello of Brahm's Violin Sonata in G major Op.78. For a long time it was considered to be the composer's own arrangement, but it is now known to have been made in 1897 by Paul Klengel, an acquaintance of Brahms' and brother of the famous cellist Julius Klengel. The previous disc by Thedéen and Pöntinen was an all-Schnittke programme, released in 2007 to great acclaim: 'Thedéen's playing is wonderfully expressive - focused, clean, beautifully voiced.' wrote the reviewer in International Record Review. Naming the disc a 'benchmark recording', his colleague in BBC Music Magazine described the performers as a partnership 'in a class of its own', which the reviewer in the German magazine Fono Forum thoroughly agreed with, calling them 'a duo of unusual expressive powers.'
 
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  Composer: Brahms, Johannes
  Sonata No.1 in E minor for Cello and Piano, Op.38 26:18
01 I. Andante – Allegro ma non troppo 14:34 $ 3.06 USD
02 II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto 05:27 $ 1.14 USD
03 III. Allegro 06:17 $ 1.32 USD
 
  Sonata No.2 in F major for Cello and Piano, Op.99 27:35
04 I. Allegro vivace 09:17 $ 1.95 USD
05 II. Adagio affettuoso 06:43 $ 1.41 USD
06 III. Allegro passionato 07:05 $ 1.49 USD
07 IV. Allegro molto 04:30 $ 0.95 USD
 
  Sonata in D major, arranged for cello and piano by Paul
Klengel from Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.78
27:08
08 I. Vivace ma non troppo 10:55 $ 2.29 USD
09 II. Adagio – Più andante – Adagio come I 07:37 $ 1.60 USD
10 III. Allegro molto moderato – Più moderato 08:36 $ 1.81 USD
 
  Album total 82:26
ComposerBrahms, Johannes
PianoPöntinen, Roland
CelloThedéen, Torleif

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