Christoph Croisé, Alexander Panfilov
Release Date: 01 November 2019
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252241020
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
On The Russian Album, award-winning cellist Christoph Croisé offers two towering 20th-century masterpieces, the Cello Sonatas by Sergei Rachmaninov and Dmitri Shostakovich, alongside miniatures by Sergei Prokofiev, Rodion Shchedrin and his compatriot, the Swiss cellist-composer Thomas Demenga.
In the spring of 2019, Christoph Croisé scored a break-through with his critically acclaimed recording of Haydn's Cello Concertos (AV 2402). With The Russian Album, he turns his attention to two towering 20th-century masterpieces, Sergei Rachmaninov's early, eloquent and emotional Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 19, and Dmitri Shostakovich's D minor Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40. The latter work's finale featured what would become the composer's signature style of caricature and irony that proved too provocative to the Stalinist regime. Croisé also offers two "encores" – his own transcriptions of the March from Sergei Prokofiev's propulsive opera The Love for Three Oranges, and Rodion Shchedrin's flambouyant In the Style of Albéniz – and a bonus track by his compatriot, the Swiss cellist and composer Thomas Demenga, New York Honk, a humourous homage to the Big Apple's cacophonous traffic noises.
ARTISTS Christoph Croisé, cello Alexander Panfilov, piano
CRITICAL ACCLAIM "a recording teeming with sparkle and relentless in fizz." – Gramophone
"brilliant performances of both Haydn concertos. He combines virtuosity with an almost humble and yet self-confident view of the music" – Pizzicato "Supersonic"
"Thumpingly good" – BBC Music Magazine
Tracklisting
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Donald Berman
Lauren Scott
East of the River
Sebastian Bohren, Sergei Bolkhovets, Munchener Kammerorchester
Cantata Collective; Nicholas McGegan
Yoshika Masuda, HyeJin Kim
Vincent Larderet
