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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No.1. Sonata for violincello and piano op.40 Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Pascal Rophé

1h03
1 CD
HMC902142

Excerpt:Sonata for cello and piano. Allegro non troppo

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 . . .

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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH [1906-1975]
Cello Concerto no.1 op.107
in E flat major / Mi bémol majeur / Es-Dur

· I. Allegretto (6'22)
· II. Moderato (12'21)
· III. Cadenza (6'20)
· IV. Allegro con moto (4'45)
Sonata for cello and piano op.40
in D minor / ré mineur / d-Moll

· I. Allegro non troppo (12'47)
· II. Allegro (3'21)
· III. Largo (9'09)
· IV. Allegro (4'35)
· Moderato for cello and piano (3'22)

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