Arts-Scène Diffusion

Pascal Amoyel

PIANO

Sonata n°1 & Suite op.16 - The Swan & transcriptions for cello and piano

Camille Saint-Saëns

Sonata n°1 & Suite op.16 - The Swan & transcriptions for cello and piano

Harmonia Mundi, 2007

Emmanuelle Bertrand, cello
​Pascal Amoyel, piano



Saint-Saëns, lover of the cello. 
Written when he was only 27 years old, the Suite for cello remained one of Saint-Saëns’s favourite children all his life. Ten years later, in 1872, he discovered a new passion for the instrument, which led to the monumental First Sonata. ‘Nowhere else, perhaps, was his notion of pain and struggle so grimly projected’, to quote E. Baumann. The legendary ‘Swan’ from The Carnival of the Animals and other works for cello and piano complete this programme.


Press

Helmut Peters, 2007

Camille Saint-Saëns wird nur in strenger Auswahl und dies auch lieder viel zu wenig gespielt. Entdeckenswert sind die von Bertrand und Amoyel hier so lebendig eingespielten Cellowerke, allen voran die schillernde erste cello- sonate in ihrer Beethoven verwandten, aber im zweiten satz auch an den tschechischen Kollegen Smetana erinnernden stilistik. Wie stark ist der kontrast dieser dichten kompositorischen Anlagen zu den knappen, fast salonmusikartigen stücken dieses komponisten, die die beiden hochengagierten Interpreten mit gleicher liebe und hingabe gestalten.

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