Rachmaninov/Shostakovich - Cello & Violin Sonatas Instrumental Piano Onyx

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"... There is an intensely inward, deeply communicative quality to this performance that draws you right to its tragic, pensive core " *****

The Daily Telegraph - 17 August 2013

’The most tragic work I know’ is how cellist Leonard Elschenbroich describes Shostakovich’sViola Sonata, his harrowing last composition, completed in 1975. The piece was originally planned, however, as a cello sonata for Mstislav Rostropovich, then exiled from the USSR: just before his death, Shostakovich asked cellist Daniil Shafran to prepare a version for the lower instrument. It’s Shafran’s version that Elschenbroich gives us here in a performance of tremendous assurance and power. You could argue that the cello’s warmth adds a touch of lyricism. But there’s no mistaking the intensity that Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk bring to it, and the closing pages, which look unflinchingly towards extinction, are unnerving in the extreme. Its companion piece is Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata, in which Grynyuk’s energy and Elschenbroich’s sense of poetry are joyously to the fore. Exceptional." *****

The Guardian - 10 May 2013

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