Pohádka is a Czech word meaning story or fairytale. Young cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Jâms Coleman, who sound like they've been playing together for decades, do well to identify it as a thread connecting a variety of Eastern European works, for all of these pieces, whether they're called sonatas or have some kind of extramusical title, seem as though they're telling stories. Two large pieces by Leo? Janácek frame the program. One is the somewhat neglected cello-and-piano work that gives the album its name, ...
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Pohádka is a Czech word meaning story or fairytale. Young cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Jâms Coleman, who sound like they've been playing together for decades, do well to identify it as a thread connecting a variety of Eastern European works, for all of these pieces, whether they're called sonatas or have some kind of extramusical title, seem as though they're telling stories. Two large pieces by Leo? Janácek frame the program. One is the somewhat neglected cello-and-piano work that gives the album its name, and the storytelling quality is palpable, with sudden, dramatic shifts of mood and rhythm. Hardly less narrative, though, is the Violin Sonata, which is splendidly arranged for cello and piano by van der Heijden. The little outbursts of the violin version, if anything, seem almost more human in this rendering. Consider its finale for a taste of the compelling ensemble playing of which van der Heijden and Coleman are capable. Between the Janácek works are a sonata and sonatina of...
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