Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
Performer: Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34277
Release: 2022
Size: 1.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Debussy: Beau Soir
Debussy: Cello Sonata
02. I. Prologue
03. II. Sérénade
04. III. Finale
05. Debussy: Minstrels (from Préludes – Book 1)
Satie: Six Gnossiennes
06. No.1, Lent
07. No. 2, Avec étonnement
08. No. 3, Lent
Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major
09. I. Allegretto
10. II. Blues
11. III. Perpetuum mobile
12. Debussy: La plus que lente
Poulenc: Cello Sonata, Op. 143
13. I. Allegro: Tempo di marcia
14. II. Cavatine
15. III. Ballabile
16. IV. Finale
17. Ravel: Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera
Young cellist Maciej Kułakowski (Lutosławski International Cello Competition 2015, First Prize; Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017, Laureate) is partnered by pianist Jonathan Ware in an all-French recital programme that mingles the familiar with the reimagined. Elements of “Spanish” style, blues and jazz, and the ironic humour of the Parisian café, encountered in Sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc and Ravel (Kułakowski’s cello rendering of the latter’s Second Violin Sonata), are echoed in a brace of shorter works that includes several further transcriptions: of three short pieces by Debussy and of Satie’s Trois Gnossiennes.