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Kreutzer-Sonata and other works for violoncello & piano
Ludwig van Beethoven - Johann Sebastian Bach - Paul Hindemith

Kreutzer-Sonata and other works for violoncello & piano

Jelena Očić / Federico Lovato

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917252422
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Catalog number: CC 72524
Releasedate: 23-08-11
Beautiful adaptations for cello and piano of famous works by Bach and Beethoven, respectively the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Kreutzer Sonata. The well-fitted programme is completed with the Sonata for Violoncello and Piano op. 11 no. 3 of 1919 of Paul Hindemith. Two very intelligent and musically refined musicians -this duo's second album is first-class!

 
  • Jelena Ocic' chamber music partners have been Bernard Greenhouse, Konstanty Bogino, Ulrike-Anima Mathé, Federico Lovato, Friedemann Eichhorn, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Yuri Gandelsman, José Gallardo, etc ...
  • The new recording sets exceptional standards for the performance of classical works of historical interest
  • Beethoven’s „Kreutzer“ Sonata in the cello version by the Beethoven disciple Carl Czerny is coupled with 5 of Ignaz Moscheles’ recomposition of Bach Preludes from the „Well Tempered Clavier“ with obligato cello. Paul Hindemith’s dramatic Sonata op. 11 No.3 completes the unusual programme
  • Ocic concertizes internationally as a soloist with chamber and philharmonic orchestras and as recitalist in Eastern and Western Europe, in the United States and Asia
  • Jelena Ocic' warm and deep cello sound and exciting interpretations can be heard again on her second CD with Federico Lovato for Challenge Classics, close on the heels their first release with music of Ginastera, Kabalewsky and Senderovas.
On this CD, Jelena Ocic and Federico Lovato perform five of ten preludes that the great 19th century pianist Ignaz Moscheles adapted from Bach's „Well Tempered Clavier“ and Carl Czerny's version of the „Kreutzer“ Sonata for Piano and Violoncello by Beethoven

The Sonata for Violoncello and Piano op. 11 no. 3 of 1919 by Paul Hindemith has been described as one of the young Hindemith’s key works. His stylistic horizon has widened and he has clearly taken his distance to Late Romantic models such as Richard Strauss, whose „Alpine Symphony“ Hindemith called “A whopping piece of hocus-pocus!” And, even more drastic: „The man has really gone off the rails. Rather be hanged than ever write such music!” (to Emmy Ronne-feldt, 14 Nov. 1917).   Within the context of modernism at this time, the stylistic experiments of the young Hindemith are infused far more by impressions of Johannes Brahms’ musical idiom and some of Max Reger’s contemporaries. Earlier models are also echoed: Mozart, and above all Bach