BRAHMS Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Gaillard and her Goffriller turn to intimate Brahms
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Composer or Director: Johannes Brahms
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Aparte
Magazine Review Date: 11/2013
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 75
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: AP053
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 |
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, Piano Orphélie Gaillard, Cello |
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 |
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Johannes Brahms, Composer Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, Piano Orphélie Gaillard, Cello |
Trio for Clarinet/Viola, Cello and Piano |
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Fabio di Càsola, Clarinet Johannes Brahms, Composer Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, Piano Orphélie Gaillard, Cello |
Author: Caroline Gill
Gaillard is no stranger to heavier works but the voyage into earlier repertoire since her last such disc (aside from last year’s recording of the Schumann Concerto) seems to have informed her playing with even more subtlety than before. Brahms’s sonatas have big themes, and for the cello this is nowhere better illustrated than in the First, where the division of labour between the cello and the piano is much as it is in the violin sonatas. Although occasionally the reciprocity that is therefore so necessary between the cello and piano is a bit lost – for example when you hear the themes from the cello return through the piano, with the piano accompaniment transposed into the cello part – the piano of Louis Schwizgebel-Wang in the sonatas is also beautiful, especially in the second movement of the First Sonata, where it follows the lead of the cello and in turn gently encourages it in new directions. In the Trio, Fabio Di Càsola reminds the listener how it was hearing the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld that tempted Brahms back to composition after he had elected to give up.
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