RACHMANINOV; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas
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Composer or Director: Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, Alexander Scriabin
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Pentatone
Magazine Review Date: 02/2017
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 72
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: PTC5186 594

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Cello and Piano |
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Andrei Korobeinikov, Piano Johannes Moser, Cello Sergey Prokofiev, Composer |
Adagio |
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Andrei Korobeinikov, Piano Johannes Moser, Cello Sergey Prokofiev, Composer |
Romance |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Andrei Korobeinikov, Piano Johannes Moser, Cello |
Author: Harriet Smith
Moser and Korobeinikov’s Rachmaninov Sonata has a keen sense of drama and line that never gets obscured despite the piece’s manifold technical challenges. They have to contend with some big-name comparisons, however, not least the recent Weilerstein and Barnatan that so impressed my colleague Hannah Nepil. For white-hot reactivity these two are hard to beat, and Moser doesn’t quite scale the same emotional heights. Nor does Korobeinikov boast the range of colours that Hough finds for Isserlis in the songful Andante. And while the finale of this new set has both impetus and passion, again Weilerstein and Barnatan are more febrile still.
By way of extras, we get from Moser and Korobeinikov a beautifully fresh-sounding Rachmaninov Vocalise (almost as moving as Weilerstein), an ardent account of the Adagio from Prokofiev’s Cinderella and two minutes of pure pleasure in their borrowing of Scriabin’s teenage Romance, originally for horn and piano. A nicely recorded balance too.
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