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SUMMARY:Rachmaninov and Mendelssohn Cello Sonatas - Jacqueline Johnson cello Dominic Piers Smith piano
DESCRIPTION:Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 \nThe mystic aspect to Rachmaninov’s art can be felt strongly throughout his Cello Sonata\, his most famous piece of chamber music. While there are no obvious quotations from any Orthodox hymns\, the style of many of the themes\, with their close intervals\, their incense-filled colours\, the passionate\, almost obsessive repetition of single notes (particularly in the main theme of the slow movement)\, and the frequent bell-like sonorities\, owe a huge debt to the music of the Russian Church that was such an important influence on the composer’s life. Written in 1901\, the year after the perennially beloved Second Piano Concerto\, the Cello Sonata reflects\, perhaps\, the state of Rachmaninov’s heart and mind. Having suffered a nervous breakdown after the catastrophic failure of his First Symphony in 1897\, Rachmaninov had fought his way back to mental and creative health. Surely it is not fanciful to hear an echo of this in the struggles of the first movement\, with its conflict between semitones and whole tones; in the dark night of the Scherzo; and then in the blazing joy of the Finale? No bearded Russian priest with his Easter cry ‘Christ is Risen’ can ever have sounded more triumphant than the cello does as it announces the glorious second theme of this movement. The whole sonata\, imbued as it is with the classical discipline that is so vital a feature of all Rachmaninov’s music\, encompasses a vast range of romantic emotion—a journey of the soul. \nMendelssohn Sonata for piano and cello Op. 45 \nComposed for his brother Paul\, the Sonata in B-flat Major Op. 45\, was written in Leipzig in 1838\, almost a decade after the Variations concertantes. In this sonata\, Mendelssohn shows his gift for cantabile melodic writing\, giving an equal assignment to each partner and providing long\, singing phrases for the cello. \nJacqueline Johnson cello \nDominic Piers Smith piano
URL:https://abbeychamberconcerts.org/event/rachmaninov-cello-sonata-jacqueline-johnson-cello-dominic-piers-smith-piano/
LOCATION:St Nicolas’ Church\, Abingdon\, Oxon\, OX14 3HF\, United Kingdom
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