Artist: Steven Isserlis, Robert Levin
Title: Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Hyperion
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC [Tracks, 24bit/96kHz] / FLAC (*tracks + .cue,log,covers) / MP3 320 kbps
Total Time: 02:38:45 min
Total Size: 2,72 Gb / 665 mb / 365 mb
With numerous available recordings of Beethoven's music for cello and piano available, one might wonder what British cellist Steven Isserlis has to add on this Hyperion release, which includes not only the five Beethoven cello sonatas but three entertaining early sets of variations and a transcription, by Beethoven himself, of the Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17. The answer lies in Isserlis' decision to record the works with a fortepiano, in this case an instrument built by American-Czech maker Paul McNulty and based on a Viennese Walter model of 1805. It's hard to imagine a more appropriate instrument, and the conception by Isserlis and Levin here is of music that pushes the rapidly developing piano to its limit. Sample the Adagio introductions to the early Op. 5 sonatas in F major and G minor, where the fortepiano adds a murky atmosphere of mystery that accords perfectly with the ways in which Beethoven was pushing beyond Classical form. The two late Op. 102 sonatas are truly impressive here, catching the two works' quality of compact abruptness without adding a savagery that for Beethoven was in all likelihood not there. In the middle-period Cello Sonata in A major, Op. 69, and in the long central movements of the Op. 5 sonata, traditionalists may miss a broadness in the melodies, but they should spend some time attuning their ears to the instruments here to find an intimacy (not really well-supported by the engineering this time out) that really engages with the muscle and thinking of Beethoven's compositional process. Highly recommended.
Tracklist
CD1
Cello Sonata in F major Op 5 No 1 [24'01]
1 Adagio sostenuto [2'47]
2 Allegro [14'11]
3 Allegro vivace [7'03]
Cello Sonata in G minor Op 5 No 2 [28'47]
4 Adagio sostenuto ed espressivo [5'19]
5 Allegro molto più tosto presto [14'12]
6 Rondo: Allegro [9'16]
Cello Sonata in A major Op 69 [26'57]
7 Allegro, ma non tanto [12'35]
8 Scherzo: Allegro molto [5'24]
9 Adagio cantabile [1'30]
10 Allegro vivace [7'28]
CD2
Cello Sonata in C major Op 102 No 1 [15'47]
1 Andante [2'53]
2 Allegro vivace [5'11]
3 Adagio – Tempo d’andante [3'15]
4 Allegro vivace [4'28]
Cello Sonata in D major Op 102 No 2 [19'29]
5 Allegro con brio [6'43]
6 Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto [8'12]
7 Allegro – Allegro fugato [4'34]
8 Variations in G major on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO45 [11'24]
9 Variations in F major on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op 66 [9'17]
10 Variations in E flat major on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte WoO46 [8'54]
Horn Sonata in F major Op 17 [14'14]
11 Allegro moderato [7'50]
12 Poco adagio, quasi andante [1'19]
13 Rondo: Allegro moderato [5'05]
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