034571178721

Faure: Cello Sonatas

Alban Gerhardt, Cecile Licad

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67872

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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor Op 109
      • 2. Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 117
      • 3. Élégie Op 24
      • 4. Romance Op 69
      • 5. Papillon Op 77
      • 6. Sérénade Op 98
      • 7. Sicilienne Op 78
      • 8. Allegro commodo