Release Date: 01 January 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178721
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Following their triumphant Casals Encores disc, Alban Gerhardt and Cecile Licad are reunited for Faure’s music for cello and piano. The two cello sonatas are among the masterpieces of the cello repertoire, looking back to the nineteenth century but also with an edginess that may well reflect the time in which they were written—during and immediately after the First World War. Remarkably, Faure was in his seventies by the time he wrote them. There’s some debate as to how fast the last movement of the first sonata should go—so Alban Gerhardt has recorded two alternative versions, to be programmed to the listener’s taste.
Alongside the sonatas are some of Faure’s most seductive bon-bons, including the famous Sicilienne and elegie, and the so-called Papillon (so-named at his publisher’s insistence and much to Faure’s annoyance—he hated fluffy titles).
Alban Gerhardt is of course a Hyperion regular and this is his ninth album for the label.
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
Novi Piano Duo
Pietro Battistoni, Rosso Verona Baroque Ensemble
Zemlinsky Quartet, Paolo Giacometti
Stephane Tetreault; Olivier Hebert-Bouchard
Torleif Thedee & Marianna Shirinyan
Magnus Boye Hansen, Mathias Halvorsen
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
