Chopin: Works for Cello and Piano / Désert, Gastinel

$9.49
Label
Naïve
Release Date
January 7, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frederic Chopin
    • PERFORMER
      Anne Gastinel, Claire Desert
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 07, 2022
    • UPC
      822186054673
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      V5467
    • LABEL
      Naïve
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals

Other than the piano, there were few instruments on which Chopin focused his attention, which makes this album featuring cellist Anne Gastinel something of a rarity – all the more so in the hands of this iconic French cellist and her partner Claire Désert, veterans of countless concerts and recordings over several decades. Their united voice – as always, remote from the chorus of the mundane and the media-fixated – is a subtle, inspired cantilena. For here it is all about the singing voice that Chopin declared to be his model, overtly influenced as he was by Italian bel canto opera. Gastinel savors every moment, not only with the sense of refinement she shares with the greatest singers, but with a palpable musical breathing, sensitively illuminated at the piano by Désert, an accompanist in the noblest sense.