The Romantic Cello
Label: BRI Catalog: BRI94934 Format: CD Various ArtistsThis invaluable survey of that most Romantic of instruments includes both classic concertos of the era, by Dvořák and Saint‐Saëns, as well as a generous selection of encores and showpieces performed by a variety of cellists from this and earlier generations.Brahms’s expansive E minor Sonata is here, alongside Mendelssohn's deft first sonata (in a performance by Luca Fiorentini on a rare Strad cello), as well as more lyrical sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninov. The last disc opens with perhaps the most famous of all cello encores, The Swan, from Saint‐Saëns's Carnival of the Animals. Price: $35.98 |