Kacper Nowak & Christia Hudziy
Release Date: 12 October 2018
Label: Antarctica
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917730821
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Cellist Kacper Nowak and pianist Christia Hudzly presnt their captivating album, 'Contrastes' which draws its fascination not from the uniformity of the pieces included but from their very distinctness.
This recording traces the heritage of Romanticism in postmodern times. Its vintage opener is the first Cello Sonata by Brahms, a pinnacle of unspeakable but mind-controlled beauty. Martinu's second Cello Sonata, written in American exile in 1941, revisits Brahms's old world, but with wider tonality, more expressive shifts, and the extra rhythmic pulse of Czech folk music. In Schnittke's Cello Sonata of 1978, which builds on Shostakovich's emaciated style, the ghosts of the desolate closing Largo usher in the death throes of Romanticism.
Tracklisting
Svenja Van Driessche & Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort
Mayke Rademakers
Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Zemlinsky Quartet, Ataneres Ensemble
Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble
George De Decker
Four Aces Guitar Quartet
Triunfal Quintet
Antarctica
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
Ensemble La Francaise
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
Trio Parnassus
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Narratio Quartet
Beau Soir Trio
