Grieg & Chopin Cello Sonatas
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Composer or Director: Fryderyk Chopin, Edvard Grieg
Label: Claves
Magazine Review Date: 3/1987
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: D703

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Cello and Piano |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Claude Starck, Cello Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Ricardo Requejo, Piano |
Composer or Director: Fryderyk Chopin, Edvard Grieg
Label: Claves
Magazine Review Date: 3/1987
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: MC703

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Cello and Piano |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Claude Starck, Cello Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Ricardo Requejo, Piano |
Author: Joan Chissell
No need, then, to hesitate if it's a CD version of the two works that you want. On LP there's highly musicianly competition from Cohen and Vignoles (CRD) in the Grieg. But I'd still choose the newcomers for their riper characterization, and still more for Starck's greater tonal radiance. This performance should win the work many new friends. In the Chopin there's equally strong competition from Lodeon and Duchable who, incidentally stick to the familiar text in the first movement's second subject instead of the questionable variant introduced in the eight bars before letter C by Starck and Requejo. For the Largo the Frenchmen prefer a considerably slower tempo than the newcomers, whose approach I would describe as a little more romantically rhapsodic. Both versions in their different ways are distinguished. But my final vote goes to the newcomers for making the music just that little much more their own—as, for instances, in their more intimate handling of the finale's second subject.'
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