Arpeggione

Arpeggione

• Article name: Arpeggione
• Product type: ABIS MUSIC
• Brand: ERATO

With this collection of works for cello and piano, Gautier Capu§on and Frank Braley pay tribute to two towering musicians of the 20th century: Mstislav Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten, whose famous collaboration resulted in the historic recording of all four works on the album.<br><br>Schubert wrote the 'Arpeggione' Sonata in 1824, when he was already desperately ill and suffering from crushing bouts of depression. &quotIt is a work that has always profoundly touched and moved me," says Capu§on, &quotThere is such greatness of feeling in it, even though Schubert was in the depths of despair. Debussy's Cello Sonata was also written at a dark time, in 1915, the second year of the First World War, when the composer was already ill with the cancer that was to kill him in 1918; yet it is a work of both sober elegance and mercurial fantasy."