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Cello Music from Proust’s Salons

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Catalogue numberBIS-2522 SACD
Release date2021-02-05
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time83:17

With this programme of music for cello and piano, Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih transport us to the world immortalized in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu – the Parisian high society and its glittering salons. For the composers of the time these provided a perfect platform for the introduction of new works, performed by the finest musicians in France for a sympathetic, educated and rich (!) audience. And for the music-loving Proust they offered countless opportunities to meet the composers that he so admired (and others that he may have admired a bit less…)

The first of these to make his appearance in the programme is no one less than Proust’s one-time lover and lifelong friend, Reynaldo Hahn, with a brief set of Variations chantantes on a theme from a baroque opera. He is Read more
 
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  Composer: Hahn, Reynaldo
01 Variations chantantes sur un air ancien 04:54 $ 1.23 USD
 
 
  Composer: Fauré, Gabriel
02 Romance, Op. 69 03:41 $ 0.90 USD
 
03 Élégie, Op. 24  06:51 $ 1.67 USD
 
 
  Composer: Saint-Saëns, Camille
  Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32 19:43
04 I. Allegro 08:58 $ 2.18 USD
05 II. Andante tranquillo e sostenuto 05:09 $ 1.25 USD
06 III. Allegro moderato 05:36 $ 1.38 USD
 
07 Allegro quasi presto (original finale of Cello Sonata
No. 1)
08:49 $ 2.17 USD
 
 
  Composer: Duparc, Henri
08 II. Lamento, from Cello Sonata in A minor 01:55 $ 0.50 USD
 
 
  Composer: Holmes, Augusta
09 Récitatif et Chant, from ‘La Vision de la Reine’ (arr.
S. Isserlis)
07:21 $ 1.80 USD
 
 
  Composer: Franck, César
  Sonata in A major (arr. Jules Delsart) 28:14
10 I. Allegretto ben moderato 06:31 $ 1.58 USD
11 II. Allegro 07:53 $ 1.90 USD
12 III. Recitativo-Fantasia. Ben moderato 07:51 $ 1.89 USD
13 IV. Allegretto poco mosso 05:59 $ 1.51 USD
 
  Album total 83:17
CelloIsserlis, Steven
PianoShih, Connie
ComposerDuparc, Henri
Fauré, Gabriel
Franck, César
Hahn, Reynaldo
Holmes, Augusta
Saint-Saëns, Camille
ArrangerDelsart, Jules
Isserlis, Steven

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