Steven Isserlis, Dénes Várjon - Chopin: Cello Sonata; Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata (2018)
Steven Isserlis, Dénes Várjon - Chopin: Cello Sonata; Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 77:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68227 | Recorded: 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 292 Mb | Total time: 77:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68227 | Recorded: 2017
Cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Denes Várjon are known as instrumentalists for connoisseurs, delving deep into the structures of work and programming them in intelligent ways. You wouldn't pick Isserlis as a Chopin specialist, and Chopin wrote very little chamber music anyway. But he and Várjon deliver a gripping performance of the Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, a notoriously troublesome work whose text is far from fixed. They play the first movement Maestoso, as it is marked in some sources, and they present a vision of the sonata as a work of great seriousness, complexity, and ambition. The lessons taught by Beethoven had still hardly been absorbed by the mid-1840s, and for Isserlis and Várjon, Chopin was trying to wrestle with Beethoven's mixture of heroic style and motivic complexity. It's not the only way to approach the sonata, but the work is quite powerful as rendered here; sample and consider the first movement. The other major work on the program, Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata in A minor (rendered, as it usually is, on the cello), also gets considerable heft here, and these pieces are framed by a lighter Chopin curtain-raiser, the Introduction and polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3, an elegant little work by the cellist Auguste Franchomme, for whom Chopin wrote his sonata, and by a trio of song transcriptions. Várjon's Erard piano adds an ideal clarity to the music, and Hyperion's Wyastone Estate Concert Hall sound is superb. Notes by Isserlis himself cover more interpretive details, but you could just listen to the music, which has considerable power and suggests that Chopin was heading in new directions at the end of his life.–James Manheim
Performer:
Steven Isserlis, cello
Dénes Várjon, piano
Track List:
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Introduction & Polonaise brillante in C major, Op.3
01. Introduction
02. Alla Polacca
Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884)
03. Nocturne in C minor, Op.15 No.1
Frédéric Chopin
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.65
04. Maestoso
05. Scherzo: [Allegro - Più lento - Tempo I]
06. Largo
07. Finale: Allegro
08. Nie ma czego trzeba, Op.74 No.13 (arranged by Steven Isserlis)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821
09. Allegro moderato
10. Adagio -
11. Allegretto
12. Nacht & Träume, D827 (arranged by Steven Isserlis)
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Steven Isserlis, Dénes Várjon - Chopin: Cello Sonata; Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata (2018)
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