Bridge, Britten, Debussy: Cello Sonatas

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Marginally less juicy of tone and idiosyncratic of phrasing than Rostropovich, Mørk brings a classical poise and eloquence to his phrasing and a marvellous sensitivity to detail, while Gimse... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Aug 2022
Catalogue No: ALPHA560
Label: Alpha
Length: 70 minutes

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Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor, H125

Work length25:00

Truls Mørk (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano)

I. Allegro ben moderato

Track length10:57

II. Adagio ma non troppo - Molto allegro agitato

Track length14:03

Britten: Sonata for cello and piano in C major, Op. 65

Work length21:36

Truls Mørk (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano)

I. Dialogo (Allegro)

Track length4:48

II. Scherzo-Pizzicato (Allegretto)

Track length3:31

III. Elegia (Lento)

Track length3:38

IV. Marcia (Energico)

Track length5:04

V. Moto perpetuo (Presto)

Track length4:35

Debussy: Cello Sonata

Work length13:17

Truls Mørk (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano)

I. Prologue (Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto)

Track length3:01

II. Sérénade (Modérément animé)

Track length7:41

III. Final (Animé, léger et nerveux)

Track length2:35

Janáček: Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano

Work length10:59

Truls Mørk (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano)

I. Con moto

Track length6:13

II. Con moto

Track length2:10

III. Allegro

Track length2:36

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The great Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk makes a triumphal return to chamber music with his regular piano partner Håvard Gimse. The programme features two English composers, Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge, whose Cello Sonata was written during the First World War and is tinged with despair and searing emotional force. Britten composed his Cello Sonata in 1961, following his meeting with Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom he dedicated the work. Another person traumatised by the Great War was Debussy, who wrote: ‘It was cowardly to think only of the horrors being committed, without trying to react by rebuilding, insofar as my strength allowed, a little of that beauty which is currently under attack.’ His Cello Sonata (1915) was the first of a series of six sonatas for various instruments that he planned to compose, only managing to write three before his death. As a determined Moravian nationalist, Janáček did not entitle his three-movement work of 1910 ‘sonata’; he called it Pohádka (Fairy tale) and based it on a poem by Vasily Zhukovsky.

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November 2022

Marginally less juicy of tone and idiosyncratic of phrasing than Rostropovich, Mørk brings a classical poise and eloquence to his phrasing and a marvellous sensitivity to detail, while Gimse is fully alive to the very different styles of piano writing in these four works.

Awards Issue 2022

Any serious collection must have Rostropovich and Britten’s recordings of all four of these works, of course, but I’ll keep this handsomely recorded new album by their side.

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