Alkan. Liszt. Works For Cello And Piano. Bertrand/

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano)

Alkan: Cello Sonata Op.47; Liszt: Élégie I & II, La lugubre gondola, Romance oubliée, Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth

This collection of works for cello and piano performed by Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel features works by two illustrious nineteenth-century pianists, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Franz Liszt, generally associated with a style founded on transcendental virtuosity. Yet both the late works of Liszt, with their funereal and elegiac character, and the splendid Cello Sonata that Alkan wrote in the middle years of the century, reflect a shared ideal of purified expression and a poetic vision of instrumental music.

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