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Review by JJ March 16, 2010 (4 of 6 found this review helpful)
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Performance: Sonics (S/MC): / |
Dimitri Chostakovitch’s (1906-1975) chamber music, “while not innovative,” states musicologist Pierre-Emile Barbier, “succeeds in synthesizing two inheritances, - the formal and technical one from Beethoven, and that from the two Russian schools, the first that goes from Tchaikovski to Miaskowski, and the second, “cosmopolitan,” from Borodine to Stravinski. From the latter, he adapted the formalism in creating a pathetic style, as well as a savage, devastating truculence, all his own.” The present recording in pure DSD proposes a work of youth, the Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor Op.40 dating from 1934, two pieces for cello and piano (adagio and waltz) from the Ballet Suite N°2, composed back in 1951, and the last work, the Sonata Op.147, composed in 1975 first for alto and piano, and played here for the first time on cello based on the original text. The duo of artists, Michal Kanka (cello) and Jaromir Klepac (piano) are the perfect image of music that is at once profound, tormented, serene, and sarcastic. Their playing magnificently espouses this expressive palette without artifice and without conceding to any kind of pathos. It allows each respiration to thrive from the warm tones of their instruments. In short, this is a not-to-be-missed SACD.
Jean-Jacques Millo
Translation Lawrence Schulman
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