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Beau Soir: Debussy | Satie | Ravel | Poulenc
Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
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.
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- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
- Maciej Kułakowski, Jonathan Ware
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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.