Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Release Date: 01 March 2024
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060216349152
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
This album brings together three works for cello and piano. The first of them, Gabriel Faure's Cello Sonata No. 1, is a cornerstone of the repertoire for this medium. It was composed in 1917 and premiered by cellist Gerard Hekking and pianist Alfred Cortot.
The second, Gordon Crosse's Wavesongs, is a modern masterpiece and written for this present recording's cellist Alexander Baillie in 1983. The work ranks among Crosse's most personal inspirations, as well as being an impressive composition in its own right. The third is a transcription of an early, appealing work by Maurice Ravel. Written in April 1897, and sometimes referred to as Sonate posthume, Ravel's [First] Violin Sonata is among his earliest extant works.
Baillie and Yandell are accomplished advicates, the cello growling and snarling as the piano whirls around in turmoil [Wavesongs]" – BBC Music Magazine ****
"Nigel Yandell is superb in his handling of the piano, Alexander Baillie the epitome of confidence […]. Wavesongs (1983) for cello and piano is bristlingly urgent in demeanour." – Classical Explorer
Tracklisting
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
Les Connivences Sonores: Odile Renault; Elodie Reibaud
