Johannes Moser / Alasdair Beatson -Werke für Cello und Klavier -Pentatone SACD+CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier Nr. 2 D-Dur op. 58

01. "1. Allegro assai vivace"

02. "2. Allegretto scherzando"

03. "3. Adagio"

04. "4. Molto allegro e vivace"

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

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

07. "Fantasie für Violoncello und Klavier g-moll"

08. "Capriccio für Violoncello und Klavier As-Dur"
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier Nr. 1 B-Dur op. 45

09. "1. Allegro vivace"

10. "2. Andante"

11. "3. Allegro assai"

12. "Albumblatt h-moll (Assai tranquillo)"

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German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny. Once composed for the popular Sunday Sessions at the Berlin Mendelssohn family house, these works fit into the typically nineteenth-century tradition of domestic music-making, albeit at the highest thinkable level. Beatson plays an 1837 Ã?rard fortepiano, identical to the instrument that belonged to the Mendelssohn household when these pieces were composed. Besides Felix Mendelssohnâ??s two sonatas for cello and piano, his Variations concertantes, op. 17, Lied ohne Worte, op. 109 and Albumblatt in B Minor are featured. Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohnâ??s Fantasia in G Minor and Capriccio in A-flat Major show what could have become of this talented female composer if societal conventions had not restricted her musical activities to the private salon - WORKS FOR CELLO & PIANO BY FELIX & FANNY MENDELSSOHN

German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Irish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny. Once composed for the popular Sunday Sessions at the Berlin Mendelssohn family house, these works fit into the typically nineteenth-century tradition of domestic music-making, albeit at the highest thinkable level. Beatson plays an 1837 Erard fortepiano, identical to the instrument that belonged to the Mendelssohn household when these pieces were composed. Besides Felix Mendelssohns two sonatas for cello and piano, his Variations concertantes, op. 17, Lied ohne Worte, op. 109 and Albumblatt in B Minor are featured. Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohns Fantasia in G Minor and Capriccio in A-flat Major show what could have become of this talented female composer if societal conventions had not restricted her musical activities to the private salon. This is Mosers fifth album as an exclusive PENTATONE artist, after releases with the cello concertos of Dvorak and Lalo (2015), Elgar and Tchaikovsky (2017), works for cello and piano by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev (2016, awarded with a diapason dor and ECHO Klassik 2017), and cello concertos by Lutoslawski and Dutilleux (2018). He records for the first time with Alasdair Beatson, who makes his PENTATONE debut.

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PTC5186781

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