5060216349152

Faure, Crosse, Ravel

Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell

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Format: CD

Cat No: FHR152

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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Faure: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in D minor: I. Allegro
      • 2. Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in D minor: II. Andante
      • 3. Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in D minor: III. Finale: Allegro commodo
      • 4. Gordon Crosse: Wavesongs: Introduction: Deep Sea
      • 5. Wavesongs: Sea Shanty; a memory surfacing
      • 6. Wavesongs: Troubled Waves
      • 7. Wavesongs: Storm
      • 8. Wavesongs: Cruel Sea
      • 9. Wavesongs: Aria
      • 10. Wavesongs: Tempest
      • 11. Wavesongs: Lost at Sea
      • 12. Wavesongs: Homeward Bound
      • 13. Wavesongs: Peace and Enlightenment
      • 14. Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor (arr. for cello and piano by Christian Proske)