Franck & Ysaÿe: Works For Cello And Piano

Alexander Kniazev, Cello; Plamena Mangova, piano

César Franck & Eugène Ysaÿe
Works for Cello and Piano

After years of fruitful cooperation with Evgeni Kissin, Nikolaï Luganski and Boris Berezovski, Alexander Kniazev has found in Plamena Mangova a worthy partner for this tribute to the Franco-Belgian school, and in particular to the outstanding violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.
Ysaÿe, to whom the César Franck Sonata was dedicated and who created it, enjoyed playing the cello -and did so very competently - when he played music at home with friends. The warm and powerful sound of Ysaÿe gave the Franck Sonata the feel of a cathedral and very soon the Sonata was published in a version for cello authorized by the composer and carried out by Jules Delsart. In his turn, Kniazev proposes his vision of a few other pages by Franck and Ysaÿe, amongst which the magnificent Poème élégiaque, source of Chausson's Poème, is a première on disc in a beautifully suited new form.

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