This Harmonia Mundi release celebrates the 20th anniversary of the artistic partnership of cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianist Pascal Amoyel, and their familiarity with each other's ways shows through at every turn in this lovely Brahms recital. Bertrand has played many kinds of music over the years, but here, she sounds like a Brahms specialist to the manner born. Bertrand and Amoyel are all about great Brahms tunes rather than necessarily musical complexity, and they do well to essay a group of seven song ...
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This Harmonia Mundi release celebrates the 20th anniversary of the artistic partnership of cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianist Pascal Amoyel, and their familiarity with each other's ways shows through at every turn in this lovely Brahms recital. Bertrand has played many kinds of music over the years, but here, she sounds like a Brahms specialist to the manner born. Bertrand and Amoyel are all about great Brahms tunes rather than necessarily musical complexity, and they do well to essay a group of seven song transcriptions for cello and piano as an entr'acte (six of them are designated Liebeslieder, or love songs, but they are just Brahms love songs from various sources, not Liebeslieder Waltzes). The two cello sonatas are given distinctive treatments. Especially hypnotic is the Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38, where Bertrand is gentle and lyrical. It sounds a bit like how Brahms might have been played at the Conservatoire de Paris in the late 19th century, but if it is Fauré-style Brahms,...
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