Release Date: 27 March 2011
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599918587
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Russian Cello Sonatas
Description
The three sonatas are here given warm and inspired performances by the Armenian-born cellist Alexander Chaushian with Yevgeny Sudbin, his chamber music partner of long standing, at the piano. The two have previously recorded sonatas by Mieczyslaw Weinberg for BIS (BIS-CD-1648); a disc which was hailed as 'the best possible case for a reappraisal of this undervalued composer' by BBC Music Magazine, while the reviewer for International Record Review believed it 'difficult to imagine finer performances than these'. between 1860 and 1934, the works on this disc hail from a momentous period in Russian music - from the emergence of a national Russian school of composing advocated by the group called 'The Mighty Five', to Stalin's denunciation of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was to cause generations of Russian composers to harness their modernist leanings.
Tracklisting
Chelys Consort Of Viols
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Sascha Goetzel
Oliver Barlow; Arlo Murray; Sergej Merkusjev; Joonas Ahonen; Barbara Kozelj; London Philharmonic Or
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Masaaki Suzuki
Miklos Spanyi
Jersualem Quartet
Jone Martinez; Eri Sawae; Benjamin Bruns; Bach Collegium Japan; Masaaki Suzuki
