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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Sonata for cello and piano

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composer
Shostakovich, Dmitry
title

Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Sonata for cello and piano

performers
Amoyel, Pascal, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bertrand, Emmanuelle, Rophé, Pascal
catalogue number
HMC 902142
description
Here are two masterpieces for cello by Shostakovich, written 25 years apart. The insolent Sonata op.40 of 1934 – contemporary with Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, the opera soon to plunge its composer into disgrace with Stalin – was answered in 1959 by the bitter self-questioning of an artist who seemed to have sunk into depression. This Cello Concerto ends with a wicked caricature of true joy, adding the final touch to the extreme polymorphism of a traumatised humorist who had long since learned not to laugh . . .

Works:

• Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
• Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
• Shostakovich: Moderato in A minor for cello & piano
format
CD x 1
label
Harmonia Mundi
release date
2/18/13
EAN / barcode
3149020214220
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