The best cello/piano sonata ever! The piano part is just amazing ... perfect synergy between the cello and piano. One of THE best performances of this masterpiece!
its a common motive in griegs music, it also appears in the string quartet (if my memory serves me right) and in his notturno from op 54 (the main melody is pretty much said melody hidden in plain sight)
Grieg doesn't get nearly enough air time, and when he does, it's always the same few works - the fate of a lot of composers, alas. I often wonder how classical music programmers I hear on Vermont Public Radio (local and national) make their choices. Thanks to YOU for broadening my musical horizon! I love the cello, so these several sonatas have been balm to my ears!
The sonata is an old favourite and I generally love this performance. But, reading the score, I see that at letter E (2.08) Grieg has written "poco animato" and that the performers go against his instruction, slowing slightly down. I would have preferred the "animato"
It's interesting, but animato means animated, not necessarily faster - otherwise Greig may have written poco accelerando or stringendo etc - animato affects more of how you play, not just the speed, so the slight slow down and drop in dynamic gives room for the music to develop and become more animated (dynamics, articulation and tempo). If it was marked with a new tempo marking then yes it would be wrong, but poco animato doesn't mean "suddenly go faster" at all.
Wow, this is fabulous! Extremely impressive cello and piano playing! I play both instruments, and hope to be able to play this with another musician one day! By the bye, it might be only my observation, but has anyone noticed the similarity between the main theme of the first movement of this Sonata and the main theme of the first movement of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto?
مجرد عزف علامات موسيقا .الموسيقا ليست هندسة بل احساس مرهف .. الموسيقا الراىعة لالياس الرحباني دمي ودموعي وابتسامتي . وراىعة ام كلثوم مقدمة ليلة حب من محمد عبد الوهاب
