Composer: Frédéric François Chopin, Auguste-Joseph Franchomme, Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Steven Isserlis, Dénes Várjon
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68227
Release: 2018
Size: 2.56 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C, Op. 3
01. I. Introduction
02. II. Alla Polacca
03. Franchomme: Nocturne for Cello and Piano, Op. 15 No. 1
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
04. I. Maestoso
05. II. Scherzo
06. III. Largo
07. IV. Finale: Allegro
08. Chopin: Nie ma czego trzeba (I Want What I Have Not), Op. 74 No. 13
Schubert: Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’, D821
09. I. Allegro moderato
10. II. Adagio –
11. III. Allegretto
12. Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
Cellists have cause to be thankful for the impracticality and swift demise of the arpeggione, which allowed the appropriation of Schubert’s wonderful sonata for their own instrument. Dénes Várjon’s 1851 Érard lends characterful zest both here and in Chopin, while bonuses include Steven Isserlis’s own transcriptions of songs by both composers.