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Franz Schubert: Cello Sonata D. 821 "Arpeggione" / Johann Nepomuk Hummel: "Monferina" Variations Op. 54, Cello Sonata Op. 104

by Michal Kaňka, Rumi Itoh

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Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Minor, D. 821 "Arpeggione" I. Allegro moderato 12:19
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Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Minor, D. 821 "Arpeggione" II. Adagio 04:42
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Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Minor, D. 821 "Arpeggione" III. Allegretto 09:27
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Thema. Andante 01:31
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation I 01:15
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation II 01:22
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation III 01:17
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation IV 01:00
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation V 01:43
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation VI 01:17
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation VII 01:21
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation VIII 01:18
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation IX 01:29
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Variations for Piano and Cello in D minor, Op. 54 "Variazioni alla Monferina" Variation X. Presto 02:48
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Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major, Op. 104 I. Allegro amabile e grazioso 10:39
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Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major, Op. 104 II. Romanza. Un poco adagio e con espressione 05:40
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Sonata for Piano and Cello in A Major, Op. 104 III. Rondo. Allegro vivace un poco 06:00

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Schubert’s Sonata D. 821 resulted from an unusual commission. In 1823, the instrument maker Johann Georg Stauffer built a curious instrument he called the “arpeggione”, taking after both the guitar (6 strings) and the cello for its form. He interested the cellist Vincenz Schuster in his prototype, giving him to responsibility of finding composers willing to write original scores highlighting the unique qualities of this new instrument. This ephemeral instrument presented one single obvious advantage: that of facilitating playing in arpeggios, hence its name. Schubert, always on the lookout for a lucrative commission, therefore wrote a sonata in December 1824, which would finally be published in 1871. Since the first edition, which also proposed a transcription for cello and piano, the sonata has become one of the most frequently played in the Romantic repertoire, a lyrical work that is both lively and somewhat melancholic, made up of long, melodious lines. Pianist of great renown, but also pedagogue and conductor, Hummel was a pupil of Mozart, Haydn and Salieri, and is a contemporary of Beethoven. He has accumulated a considerable catalogue of work in all genres, except for the symphony. Stylistically, his music generally represents the end of the Viennese Classical era and the transition period between it and Romanticism. His sonata for piano and cello enjoyed great notoriety; in its scope and the intensity of its discourse, it directly prefugures the composition of Brahms’ Opus 38, its expressive tension even surpassing the virtuoso classicism of the two sonatas of his most talented pupil, Mendelssohn. More traditional in their elegant fluidity, in the manner of the gallant Mozart and early Beethoven, the Variations Op. 54 are only intended to highlight the accompanied instrument, while leaving the leading role to the keyboard.

Awards: 4* by Le Monde de la Musique, 5 by Diapason, Recommended by Classica

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