Debussy - Cello Sonata
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Special offer. Debussy: Sonatas & Trios
RecommendedEmmanuel Pahud (flute), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Edgar Moreau (cello), Gerard Caussé (viola), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)
A sense of joy in collegial music-making pervades these performances. Unlike many, violinist Renaud Capuçon and pianist Bertrand Chamayou and their colleagues do not avoid the vein of sensual... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Record Review, 2nd December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Chamber
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Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Works
RecommendedThe Three Sonatas
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Magali Mosnier (flute), Antoine Tamestit viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)
Until recently this music was almost invariably viewed and experienced through a prism of 19th-century rhetoric – listening to Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov deftly tracing the evanescent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th November 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Cello Sonatas by Franck, Debussy & Poulenc
Anne Gastinel (cello) & Claire Désert (piano)
[Gastinel] and Claire Desert have a wonderfully intuitive partnership and both draw on subtle, inimitable soundworlds....Gastinel brings the right note of nonchalant simplicity to Debussy's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Editor's Choice
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Debussy: Fantaisie, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, La Mer
RecommendedDaniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin), Kian Soltani (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Staatskapelle Berlin
Michael Barenboim and Kian Soltani are the concertmaster and principal cellist of the Barenboim-founded West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, so the stellar quality of their playing is no more a surprise... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Franck, Boulanger, Debussy & Vermeulen: Works for Cello and Piano
Lidy Blijdorp (cello), Tobias Borsboom (piano)
By turns dramatic and ethereal, Blijdorp insists you listen...The cello arrangement of Franck's Violin Sonata is tender, passionate and reflective. Adorned with consummate virtuosity, this performance... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Chamber Choice
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These are exceptionally exciting interpretations for the most part. —
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Musical lines pass in a single, continuous breath from one instrument to the next, and the sensual, dreamlike soundscapes are tinged with immaculately drawn moments of both despair and joy.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Chamber Choice
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Rostropovich & Britten
RecommendedRecorded live at the 1961 Aldeburgh Music Festival - Previously unpublished
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) & Benjamin Britten (piano), Peter Pears (tenor)
this Testament release of Rostropovich in his debut at the Aldeburgh Festival catches the cellist somewhere near his early and all-conquering best —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Vox Humana
Isang Enders (cello), Mischa Meyer (cello), Sun-Wook Kim (piano), Sean Shibe (guitar), Joachim Enders (organ)
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Chamber Music
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