Composer: Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann
Performer: Christian Poltéra, Kathryn Stott
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2020
Size: 1.13 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Robert Schumann :
Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121 (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
01. I. Ziemlich langsam – Lebhaft
02. II. Sehr lebhaft
03. III. Leise, einfach
04. IV. Bewegt
Violin Sonata “F-A-E” (Excerpts Arr. for Cello & Piano)
05. II. Intermezzo, WoO 22
Johannes Brahms:
Violin Sonata “F-A-E” (Excerpts Arr. for Cello & Piano)
06. III. Scherzo, WoO 2
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108 (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Un poco presto e con sentimento
10. IV. Presto agitato
11. Wie Melodien zieht es mir, Op. 105 No. 1 (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
Clara Schumann:
12. Sie liebten sich beide, Op. 13 No. 2 (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
During the eighteenth century the cello gradually emerged from the anonymity of the continuo group, and by the beginning of the Romantic era the instrument had become an indispensable tool for composers. Robert Schumann, who had himself taken cello lessons, was very fond of it, describing is as a ‘beautiful instrument’; and Johannes Brahms, who acquired considerable skill as a cellist, praised its ‘masculine, serious character’. It is therefore to be hoped that neither composer would object to Christian Poltéra’s sensitive adaptations of their works. Schumann and Brahms wrote three violin sonatas each, both choosing D minor as the key of one of them. These D minor works are the ones that Poltéra – together with Kathryn Stott, whose piano parts remain unchanged – offers on this disc. The two sonatas are separated by the movements that the two composers contributed to the collaborative ‘F-A-E Sonata’ – Schumann’s Intermezzo and Brahms’s Scherzo, and Poltéra and Stott close the disc with two songs – by Brahms and by Clara Schumann, the pianist and composer, and Robert’s wife and Brahms’s lifelong friend.