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2024-03-28 03:30:00
Lang Lang: Saint-Saens
[…] certainly will be impressed – but if you hear it on, say, our own JJP’s recommended performance (Previn/Pittsburgh), you will be swept away by the sheer beauty, with the voice of the cello soaring above the perfectly balanced piano, not the other way around. The performance of the Concerto is in much the same vein: extraordinary in spots but facing stiff competition. (JJP recommends those by Jean Philip Collard on Warner, Stephen Hough on Hyperion, and Chamayou on Erato). In totality, this one leaves me feeling that the current production is just another version – and again, independently of interpretation, there’s the issue of the imbalance between soloist and orchestra.Earlier, I mentioned the other short solo pieces on the album. Most were not composed by Saint-Saens, but I won’t quibble about their relation to the title: these are, at least for me, the most interesting pieces here. While the first few […]
2024-01-18 15:56:53
Sol Gabetta/Bertrand ChamayouSony, 2 CDsSoaring through the composer’s cello and piano works, and homages by Holliger, Coll, Rihm and Widmann, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou make this a rewarding new recordingThe cellist
2023-11-17 05:00:07
The French composer’s piano pieces are interleaved with short morsels by American iconoclast John Cage
2023-11-16 15:00:17
Bertrand Chamayou(Erato)Beautifully planned and presented sequence of miniatures pays homage to Satie and to John Cage who was heavily influenced by the late French composerFrom the mid 1940s onwards,
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