Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Hungarian Dances
Alexandre Tharaud (piano) & Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Speeds are sedate, dynamics carefully regulated [in the First Sonata]; but we miss any savagery or turbulence…The mighty Second Sonata inspires a riskier approach, both trading the clean-cut...
Brahms: Cello Sonatas & Hungarian Dances
Alexandre Tharaud (piano) & Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
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Speeds are sedate, dynamics carefully regulated [in the First Sonata]; but we miss any savagery or turbulence…The mighty Second Sonata inspires a riskier approach, both trading the clean-cut...
About
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras are long-established as a duo team, but this is the first time that Queyras has joined Tharaud for an Erato recording. They have chosen works that lie at the heart of the Romantic repertoire, all by Brahms: his two cello sonatas and the duo’s own transcriptions of six of the Hungarian Dances.
Contents and tracklist
Work length26:38
This work is only available as an album download.
I. Allegro non troppo
Track length14:32
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
June 2018
Speeds are sedate, dynamics carefully regulated [in the First Sonata]; but we miss any savagery or turbulence…The mighty Second Sonata inspires a riskier approach, both trading the clean-cut for a more craggy monumentalism…The surprise highlight, though, are the six Hungarian Dances: aflame with character and devil-may-care virtuosity, this is Queyras at his most inspired.
2nd November 2018
Never have I heard Brahms’s E minor Sonata sound more calm and unruffled than in this performance by Queyras and Tharaud. Beauty of sound is paramount in their interpretation, all the more effective in this close and well-balanced recording...The players’ idiomatic arrangements of six of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances are a total delight, played with freedom and virtuosity, spirit and infectious enjoyment.
