Composer: Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Robert Schumann
Performer: Nina Kotova, José Feghali
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 9029504239
Release: 2021
Size: 1.05 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 38
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Allegretto quasi menuetto
03. III. Allegro
Reger: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 131c / 2
04. I. Präludium (Largo)
05. II. Gavotte (Allegretto)
06. III. Largo
07. IV. Gigue (Vivace)
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
08. I. Zart und mit Ausdruck
09. II. Lebhaft, leicht
10. III. Rasch und mit Feuer
11. Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70
“A talent to reckon with: poised, committed, graceful and spirited,” is how the Los Angeles Times has described the Russian-American cellist Nina Kotova. Her Warner Classics catalogue already includes an album of sonatas by Rachmaninov. It is now joined by a programme of German Romantic music which she recorded with the Brazilian-born pianist José Feghali, a laureate of the Van Cliburn Competition who died aged just 53 in 2014. Spanning 65 years of musical history, the recital comprises works by Schumann and Brahms, who were close friends, and by Max Reger. He drew inspiration for his Suite No. 2 for solo cello, composed in 1914, from Pablo Casals’s advocacy of Bach’s solo suites.