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Beau Soir: Debussy | Satie | Ravel | Poulenc

Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware

Beau Soir: Debussy | Satie | Ravel | Poulenc
Obeying their instructions to the letter means that cellist and pianist convey the meaning of every crescendo or change of tempo, however minimal, proving that tiny details can have huge effects....

Beau Soir: Debussy | Satie | Ravel | Poulenc

Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware

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Obeying their instructions to the letter means that cellist and pianist convey the meaning of every crescendo or change of tempo, however minimal, proving that tiny details can have huge effects....

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Acclaimed young cellist Maciej Kulakowski (Lutoslawski International Cello Competition 2015, First Prize; Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017, Laureate) is partnered by pianist Jonathan Ware in an all-French recital programme that mingles the familiar with the reimagined. Elements of ‘Spanish’ style, blues and jazz, and the ironic humour of the Parisian café, encountered in sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc and Ravel (Ku_akowski’s cello rendering of the latter’s second violin sonata), are echoed in a brace of shorter works that includes several further transcriptions: of three short pieces by Debussy and of Satie’s Trois Gnossiennes.

Contents and tracklist

I. Prologue
Track length4:17
II. Sérénade
Track length3:15
III. Finale
Track length3:30
No.1, Lent
Track length3:46
No. 2, Avec étonnement
Track length2:16
No. 3, Lent
Track length2:48
I. Allegretto
Track length8:24
II. Blues
Track length5:38
III. Perpetuum mobile
Track length3:54
I. Allegro: Tempo di marcia
Track length5:45
II. Cavatine
Track length6:02
III. Ballabile
Track length3:17
IV. Finale
Track length6:42

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Awards and reviews

December 2022

Obeying their instructions to the letter means that cellist and pianist convey the meaning of every crescendo or change of tempo, however minimal, proving that tiny details can have huge effects. To use a technical term, the ‘wackiness’ of Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc has rarely been better demonstrated.

January 2023

The Debussy and Poulenc are much recorded but Kułakowski and Ware otherwise have the field to themselves, their Ravel Sonata being the most idiomatic of several such transcriptions. Vividly realistic sound and informative annotations enhance an already desirable collection.
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