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Reinecke: Complete Cello Sonatas / Turkalj, Carratta

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Details

Composer
Carl Heinrich Reinecke
Artist
Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Apr 22, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96539
UPC
5028421965390

About

The fundamentally Romantic idiom of Carl Reinecke coexists with the twilight of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century. He was a precocious and prolific composer, who wrote music from an early age after his birth in the North German town of Altona in 1924. The last of his three cello sonatas was composed in the year of 1898 once he had retired from teaching duties at the Leipzig Conservatoire to become its director, while the first of them was composed in 1848, when Reinecke was serving as a young and brilliantly accomplished court pianist in Copenhagen. The trio of sonatas thus spans his maturity and effectively traces certain strands of his development as a composer. All three of them hew to the standard quick-slow-quick three-movement form in which the sonata’s argument is outlined by a discursive first movement, deepened by a reflective intermezzo and rounded off with an extrovert rondo finale. When it was belatedly published in 1855, the A minor Sonata won such popularity that Reinecke was soon asked to make a violin version of the piece. The dedicatee was Andreas Grabau, a cellist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra of which Mendelssohn was director, and indeed, the sonata rejoices in a quickness of thought and lively spirit which Felix would have recognized and appreciated. The D major Sonata Op.89 was composed in 1866 and published by Breitkopf & Hartel with a dedication to Carl Voigt. Is this a ‘midde-aged’ Reinecke? Certainly the first movement stands back from the high drama of the First Sonata, or at any rate gives way periodically to a very cellistic mode of introspection, inviting comparison in this regard with the recently composed E minor Cello Sonata of Brahms.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio - Un poco più animato - Allegro moderato 07:18
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio - Un poco più animato - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:18
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  2. 2 II. Andante mesto 04:54
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante mesto
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  3. 3 III. Finale: Allegro 04:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  4. 4 I. Lento - Allegro molto moderato 07:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Lento - Allegro molto moderato
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  5. 5 II. Andante - In tempo animato 05:02
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante - In tempo animato
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  6. 6 III. Finale: Moderato 07:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Finale: Moderato
    Duration
    07:37
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  7. 7 I. Adagio - Un poco più animato - Allegro moderato 09:49
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Adagio - Un poco più animato - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    09:49
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  8. 8 II. Andante mesto 05:27
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Andante mesto
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta
  9. 9 III. Finale: Allegro 05:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    05:22
    Composer
    Carl Reinecke
    Performer
    Ana Turkalj, Aleck Carratta