Isserlis/shih - Music from Proust's Salons [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.With this programme of music for cello and piano, Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih transport us to the world immortalized in Marcel Proustx92s xc0 la recherche du temps perdu x96 the Parisian high society and its glittering salons. For the composers of the time these provided a perfect platform for the introduction of new works, performed by the finest musicians in France for a sympathetic, educated and rich (!) audience. And for the music-loving Proust they offered countless opportunities to meet the composers that he so admired (and others that he possibly admired slightly lessx85) The first of these to make his appearance in the programme is no one less than Proustx92s one-time lover and lifelong friend, Reynaldo Hahn, with a brief set of Variations chantantes on a theme from a baroque opera. He is followed by Gabriel Faurxe9, whose music Proust gushed about in a letter to the composer: x91I could write a book more than 300 pages long about it.x92 Proust was less expansive about Saint-Saxebnsx92 music even if he admired him as a pianist, but the composerx92s First Cello Sonata is nevertheless the centrepiece of the programme, before Henri Duparc and Augusta Holmxe8s make their appearance. These were both students of Cxe9sar Franck, whose iconic Violin Sonata in A major (here in the version for cello) closes this programme of x91salon musicx92 x96 in the best possible sense of the term.Variations Chantantes Sur Un Air AncienRomance, Op. 69xc9lxe9gie, Op. 24Cello Sonata No. 1 In C Minor, Op. 32Allegro Quasi Presto (Original Finale Of Sonata No. 1)Lamento. Lento (Second Movement Of Cello Sonata In A Minor)Rxe9citatif Et Chant (From 'La Vision de la Reine')Sonata In A Major

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 7318599925226

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