Composer: Lera Auerbach, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Sergey Rachmaninov
Performer: Camille Thomas, Beatrice Berrut
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Fuga Libera
Catalogue: FUG712
Release: 2013
Size: 1.26 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
01. I. Lento – Allegro moderato
02. II. Allegro scherzando
03. III. Andante
04. IV. Allegro mosso
Kabalevsky: Sonata for Cello and Piano in B-Flat Major, Op. 71
05. I. Andante molto sostenuto
06. II. Allegretto con moto
07. III. Allegro molto
Auerbach: 24 Preludes for Cello and Piano, Op. 47
08. Prelude No. 19 (Allegro appassionato)
09. Prelude No. 20 (Giocoso)
10. Prelude No. 6 (Andante tragico)
11. Prelude No. 15 (Allegro con brio)
12. Prelude No. 16 (Tempo di valzer)
13. Prelude No. 12 (Adagio)
14. Prelude No. 24 (Vivo)
This recording is the result of the passion the young musicians Camille Thomas (cello) and Beatrice Berrut (piano) have always felt for Russian music.
Whatever its period of composition, they find in this repertoire the profundity and complexity of the Slavic soul, taking to extremes the expression of human torments.
Camille Thomas: ‘For this recording we immediately thought of playing Russian music. In A Century of Russian Colours, we start with a very Romantic composition, Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata op.19. The programme continues with a very rarely recorded work, bearing the marks of Soviet communism, showing fear and anguish, but also the rigour and conformism of Dmitry Kabalevsky.
We end with a young composer who is very highly thought of in the musical world: Lera Auerbach, one of the last artists to be stripped of Russian nationality, who now lives in the United States and Germany.’