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Track(s) taken from CDA66888

Two Pieces for cello and piano, Op 61

composer
Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)

Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Recording details: August 1995
St George's, Brandon Hill, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Arne Akselberg
Release date: April 1996
Total duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Cellists should rejoice, and so should those who know Benjamin Godard only from the Jocelyn Berceuse and Léon Boëllmann from the Suite Gothique. First-rate digital sound’ (Gramophone)

‘An interesting and compellingly played disc of offbeat repertoire. Strongly recommended’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘This disc is chock-full of music I have never heard before. Without exception it is attractive, imaginative, and beautifully played … Lidström and Forsberg put us in their debt with this disc’ (American Record Guide)

‘This is wonderful. Unfamiliar yet instantly captivating repertoire leaves you wondering why you'd never heard this music before, especially when performed with the compelling advocacy and stunning bravura brought by Mats Lidström and Bengt Forsberg … This is a release of the highest distinction and significance, faultlessly played and atmospherically recorded … Very highly recommended’ (Fanfare, USA)
In the Aubade and Scherzo, a slow-fast-slow form is followed by a fast-slow-fast, giving six sections in alternating tempi. We may be reminded of the cavatina/cabaletta pairing of early nineteenth-century Italian arias.

from notes by Roger Nichols © 1996

Dans l’Aubade et Scherzo, une forme rapide-lent-rapide suit une forme lent-rapide-lent, donnant six sections dans des tempos alternants, réminiscences de l’appariement cavatine/cabalette des arias italiennes du début du XIXe siècle.

extrait des notes rédigées par Roger Nichols © 1996
Français: Hypérion

In Aublade und Scherzo folgt nach einem Langsam-Schnell-Langsam ein Schnell-Langsam-Schnell, was eine Struktur aus sechs Passagen in wechselnden Tempi hervorruft. Wir können hier die Kavatine/Kabaletta-Paarung der italienischen Arien des frühen neunzehnten Jahrhunderts wiedererkennen.

aus dem Begleittext von Roger Nichols © 1996
Deutsch: Ute Mansfeldt

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