Composer: Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Stephen Hough, Felix Mendelssohn
Performer: Steven Isserlis, Stephen Hough
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68079
Release: 2015
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Grieg: Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36
01. I. Allegro agitato
02. II. Andante molto tranquillo
03. III. Allegro molto e marcato
Hough: Sonata for cello and piano left hand ‘Les adieux’
04. I. Moderato mesto –
05. II. Allegretto placido (Im Legendenton)
06. III. Adagio sereno
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58
07. I. Allegro assai vivace
08. II. Allegretto scherzando
09. III. Adagio
10. IV. Molto allegro e vivace
Grieg’s sole Cello Sonata has long been a favourite of performers and audiences, if not of musical theorists, and here receives an impassioned vote of confidence from Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough at the head of a programme which takes the listener forwards in time to Hough’s own Sonata for cello and piano left hand and back to Mendelssohn’s ever-popular Cello Sonata No 2. A spirit of passionate romanticism unifies the whole.