The vibrant musical palette of cellist Matt Haimovitz and the graceful insight of pianist Mari Kodama exquisitely meld in MON AMI, Mon amour. Cello and piano remain in constant, colorful conversation for rarities by sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger, in Debussy’s neo-Baroque Sonata, and in the effervescent world of Poulenc’s Cello Sonata. Ravel’s poignant Kaddish and Milhaud’s hopeful E´le´gie, composed at the end of World War II, round out a program which, even in times of darkness, never loses sight of its joie de vivre. Two Fauré gems are included, the virtuosic Papillon and the breathtaking Après un rêve, with its longing for a mysterious night and an elusive, ecstatic love. The album also marks the 20th anniversary of the ground-breaking, Grammy Award-winning OXINGALE RECORDS.
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Reviews
**** Excellent Album
Jacques Bonnaure - Classica magazine (France) - April 2021
*****
Michael Wersin – Rondo (Germany) – January 2021
Performance **** Recording *****
“… this is an impressive and enjoyable disc.”
Roger Nichols – BBC Music magazine – February 2021
“…The playing has a serenity and often delicacy, and a pervasive maturity that weaves disparate pieces into an appealing, seamless recital of 20th-century French cello-and-piano works… The autumnal air to the whole recital is a significant achievement, a reminder how the particularly French aesthetic of the works captured here preserves the particular, the individual, the unique impress of distinct minds. Haimovitz and Kodama add their own nuances to this catalogue of sensibility, with deeply satisfying results.”
Phillip Kennicott – Gramophone magazine – January 2021
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