{"product_id":"1237293","title":"Isserlis\/shih - Music from Proust's Salons [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this programme of music for cello and piano, Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih transport us to the world immortalized in Marcel Proust\\x92s \\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 less\\x85) The first of these to make his appearance in the programme is no one less than Proust\\x92s 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 Faur\\xe9, 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-Sa\\xebns\\x92 music even if he admired him as a pianist, but the composer\\x92s First Cello Sonata is nevertheless the centrepiece of the programme, before Henri Duparc and Augusta Holm\\xe8s make their appearance. These were both students of C\\xe9sar Franck, whose iconic Violin Sonata in A major (here in the version for cello) closes this programme of \\x91salon music\\x92 \\x96 in the best possible sense of the term.Variations Chantantes Sur Un Air Ancien\u003cbr\u003eRomance, Op. 69\u003cbr\u003e\\xc9l\\xe9gie, Op. 24\u003cbr\u003eCello Sonata No. 1 In C Minor, Op. 32\u003cbr\u003eAllegro Quasi Presto (Original Finale Of Sonata No. 1)\u003cbr\u003eLamento. Lento (Second Movement Of Cello Sonata In A Minor)\u003cbr\u003eR\\xe9citatif Et Chant (From 'La Vision de la Reine')\u003cbr\u003eSonata In A Major","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55375390343553,"sku":"1237293","price":17.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51XT3eJ3ZPL._SL1500.jpg?v=1772398131","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1237293","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}