1435133096
Bohuslav Martinů, Johannes Brahms, Alfred Schnittke
Kacper Nowak & Christia Hudziy
Contrastes
- Type CD
- Label Antarctica
- UPC 0608917730821
- Catalog number AR 008
- Release date 05 October 2018
About the album
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. Martinů’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.
Contrastes trailer
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11Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano, H. 286 I. Allegro
06:35 -
12Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano, H. 286 II. Largo
06:51 -
13Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano, H. 286 III. Allegro comodo
04:59 -
14Sonata for Piano and Cello in e minor, Op. 38 I. Allegro non troppo
14:27 -
15Sonata for Piano and Cello in e minor, Op. 38 II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto
05:41 -
16Sonata for Piano and Cello in e minor, Op. 38 III. Allegro
06:57 -
17Sonata for Cello and Piano I. Largo
04:17 -
18Sonata for Cello and Piano II. Presto
06:28 -
19Sonata for Cello and Piano III. Largo
10:45
Kacper Nowak (artist)
Christia Hudziy (artist)
Bohuslav Martinů (composer)
Johannes Brahms (composer)
Alfred Schnittke (composer)