Christian Poltera / Ronald Brautigam -Werke für Cello und Klavier -BIS SACD+CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Variationen op. 17 (Variations concertantes für Violoncello und Klavier)

01. "1. Thema: Andante con moto"

02. "2. Variation 1"

03. "3. Variation 2"

04. "4. Variation 3: Pi? vivace"

05. "5. Variation 4: Allegro con fuoco"

06. "6. Variation 5: L'istesso tempo"

07. "7. Variation 6: L'istesso tempo"

08. "8. Variation 7: Presto ed agitato"

09. "9. Variation 8: Tempo primo - Coda: Pi? animato"
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier Nr. 1 B-Dur op. 45

10. "1. Allegro vivace"

11. "2. Andante"

12. "3. Allegro assai"

13. "Lied ohne Worte D-Dur op. 109 (für Violoncello und Klavier)"

14. "Assai tranquillo"
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier Nr. 2 D-Dur op. 58

15. "1. Allegro assai vivace"

16. "2. Allegretto scherzando"

17. "3. Adagio"

18. "4. Molto allegro e vivace"

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Christian Poltera/ Ronald Brautigam

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It is well known that Felix Mendelssohn's sister Fanny was a highly talented musician, but fewer are familiar with the fact that there were two other musical siblings in the Mendelssohn family: Rebecka, a gifted singer, and Paul, a very competent amateur cellist. It is to Paul, a banker by profession, that we owe the existence of much of Felix's music for the instrument, which in spite of Beethoven's endeavours hadn't yet become firmly established as a duo partner of the piano. Fitting comfortably on a single release, Mendelssohn's works for cello and piano are here presented by Christian Poltera and Ronald Brautigam, who open with the Variations concertantes in D major, composed in 1829. Brautigam has recently released the composer's Lieder ohne Worte, performing them on a copy of a piano by Pleyel from 1830, and plays the same instrument on the present disc. Meanwhile, Poltera has chosen to equip his 1711 Stradivarius cello with gut strings, and together the two musicians and their instruments create a sound which is both flexible, transparent and vigorous - ideal for Mendelssohn's scores. The two substantial sonatas, composed in 1838 and 1843, are separated on the disc by a brief 'Albumblatt' and a Romance sans paroles in D major, the only 'song without words' that Mendelssohn wrote for two instruments rather than piano solo.

Recording: August 2016 at Reitstadl, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany Comes in a standard jewel case with transparent tray, with 28-page booklet Liner notes in English, German and French Front cover: watercolour by Felix Mendelssoh of Cadenabbia on Lake Como, Italy, 18x24 cm, dated June 1837 ? &© 2017 BIS Records AB, Åkersberga. Made in the EU by DADC Original format: 24 bit / 96 kHz TT: 60'26 Catalog numbers ? BIS-2187 | SACD on back inlay and disc ? BIS-2187 SACD on spine and website ? BIS-2187 on booklet p. 27 & 28

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