Britten, Prokofiev & Shostakovich: The Cello Sonatas

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Label
Orfeo
Release Date
April 14, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN PROKOFIEV
    • PERFORMER
      Mueller-Schott, Piemontesi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 14, 2015
    • UPC
      4011790872124
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ORF-C872151A
    • LABEL
      Orfeo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andante grave

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    2. II. Moderato

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    3. III. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    4. I. Dialogo

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    5. II. Scherzo-pizzicato

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    6. III. Elegia

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    7. IV. Marcia

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    8. V. Moto Perpetuo

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    9. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    10. II. Allegro

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    11. III. Largo

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi

    12. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Performer: Daniel Müller-Schott, Francesco Piemontesi


This new CD by Daniel Müller-Schott and Francesco Piemontesi offers three sonatas for cello and piano, works that sum up several chapters of 20th c. history that go far beyond the merely musical. Sergei Prokofiev displays a masterly serenity in his songlike Sonata in C, op. 119, composed in 1949. It makes evident his adjustment to the cultural politics of the Soviet Union – to which this world-famous composer had returned just twelve years before – but is also tailor-made for an exceptional cello-piano duo. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata in d minor, op. 40 is no less marked by fate. It was on the program of a concert tour given by the composer and his cello partner Viktor Kubatsky in 1936 when Shostakovich was put on the Stalinist index of undesirables, on orders from the very top. Finally, Benjamin Britten’s Sonata in C, op. 65 marked the beginning of a productive, creative friendship with Rostropovich that was established, despite many a problem posed by the Cold War, in Aldeburgh in 1961 when performed by the composer and Rostropovich.