Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No.1, Cello Sonata Op.40 (2013)

01] Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107 - I Allegretto
02] Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107 - Ii Moderato
03] Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107 - Iii Cadenza
04] Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107 - Iv Allegro Con Moto
05] Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 - I Allegro Non Troppo
06] Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 - Ii Allegro
07] Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 - Iii Largo
08] Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 - Iv Allegro
09] Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 - Moderato

Emmanuelle Bertrand, cello
Pascal Amoyel, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Pascal Rophé, conductor

Here are two masterpieces for cello by Shostakovich, written 25 years apart. The insolent Sonata op.40 of 1934 – contemporary with Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, the opera soon to plunge its composer into disgrace with Stalin – was answered in 1959 by the bitter self-questioning of an artist who seemed to have sunk into depression. This Cello Concerto ends with a wicked caricature of true joy, adding the final touch to the extreme polymorphism of a traumatised humorist who had long since learned not to laugh… --- interlude.hk

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