Faure: Cello Sonatas
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Release Date: 01 January 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178721
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Release Date: 01 January 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178721
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Description
Following their triumphant Casals Encores disc, Alban Gerhardt and Cecile Licad are reunited for Faure’s music for cello and piano. The two cello sonatas are among the masterpieces of the cello repertoire, looking back to the nineteenth century but also with an edginess that may well reflect the time in which they were written—during and immediately after the First World War. Remarkably, Faure was in his seventies by the time he wrote them. There’s some debate as to how fast the last movement of the first sonata should go—so Alban Gerhardt has recorded two alternative versions, to be programmed to the listener’s taste.
Alongside the sonatas are some of Faure’s most seductive bon-bons, including the famous Sicilienne and elegie, and the so-called Papillon (so-named at his publisher’s insistence and much to Faure’s annoyance—he hated fluffy titles).
Alban Gerhardt is of course a Hyperion regular and this is his ninth album for the label.
Tracklisting
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
Takacs Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Federico Bracalente, Alessandro Deljavan
Duo Saraswati
Takacs Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
Jan Vermeulen, Veerle Peeters
Javier Negrin & Daniel Molina
Syrene Saxophone Quartet
Trio Fibonacci