Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Songs / Meneses, Wyss

$9.99
Label
Avie Records
Release Date
June 3, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johannes Brahms
    • PERFORMER
      Antonio Meneses, Gerard Wyss
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 03, 2022
    • UPC
      822252249323
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2493
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

This year, legendary cellist Antonio Meneses celebrates his 60th birthday and the 40th anniversary of winning first prize and the gold medal at the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition. Shortly after that triumph Antonio made a renowned recording of Brahms’ Double Concerto with conductor Herbert von Karajan. He revisits the composer’s music on his 11th recording for AVIE and his first of Brahms’ two cello sonatas, generously paired with a selection of lieder arrangements. Antonio mines Brahms’ baritonal sound world, extracting the full expressive range of the cello. Similar qualities infuse a selection of seven Lieder in arrangements that sound so effective on the cello that one cannot help but wonder whether somewhere in the back of his mind Brahms had the sound of the instrument – he was, after all, an accomplished player in his youth, and it would remain central to his chamber music output throughout his life.