🔊 Download high-fidelity classical music: classicalmusicreference.com/ Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano D821. *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00-03:08) I.Allegro moderato (00:00) II.Adagio (13:32) III.Allegretto (18:06) -- Cello : Mstislav Rostropovich Piano : Benjamin Britten Recorded in 1968 New Mastering in 2020 by AB for CMRR 🔊 Join us with your phone on our WhatsApp fanpage (our latest album preview): cutt.ly/5eathESK 🔊 Find our entire catalog on Qobuz: cutt.ly/geathMhL 🔊 Discover our playlists on Spotify: cutt.ly/ceatjtlB ❤ Support us on Patreon www.patreon.com/cmrr/about -- Do we know that this work, which remains very popular, was in fact a kind of " spotlight "?! Johan Georg Staufer commissioned it from Schubert to promote the new instrument he had developed, the arpeggione, a kind of cello-guitar. The arpeggione disappeared, the Sonata remained. Its charm, its melancholy character without heaviness, this spirit of instrumental song has touched all audiences - both in its most frequent transcription, and the one closest to the original, for cello and piano, and in other pairings (clarinet and piano, viola and piano, flute and piano, double bass and piano...). The recording made by Mstislav Rostropovitch with the composer Benjamin Britten, who was also an excellent pianist, is a discreetly nostalgic gem of elegance where the two instruments dialogue like two friends, in a harmony of sonorities that allows each one to blossom at its best, from the supple piano, full of nuances, to the cello that delivers its intimate singing with a modest restraint. And what a sound! An unmixed pleasure. -- Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata D 821 / LIVE 1961 (Ct.rc.: Mstislav Rostropovitch, Benjamin Britten): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TukCU92pqUc.html - Other Album available // Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata D. 821 by Daniil Shafran 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) bit.ly/3rrWiSp Tidal (Hi-Res) bit.ly/327hWD5 🎧 Apple Music (Lossless) apple.co/3qLz36O Deezer (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/3GC2fmp 🎧 Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) amzn.to/3GH1p7N Spotify (mp3) spoti.fi/3FxiMGJ 🎧 Idagio (Hi-Fi) (soon) RU-vid Music (mp4) bit.ly/49cVq9o 🔊 Download the album (Hi-Res Master) cutt.ly/Classical-Music-Reference-Recording-Website-Arpeggione-Shafran - Franz Schubert PLAYLIST (reference recordings) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M5E_BicQmR4.html
In 1974, when I was a teenager, I heard Maestro Rostropovich play this in Carnegie Recital Hall in NYC. I sat in the front row, directly in front of him. The performance was sublime, majestic, and tender. Every note had a separate meaning, and they joined together in celebration of life’s sweetness. I was transported.
I heard his last concert in 1974 when I was 29, before his leaving the Soviet Union.He gives his last concert for his favorite listeners in Yerevan Armenia.He perfomance his programm so magically,I will never forget it.
Slava was short for Mstislav Ristropovich and Benjie was Benjamin Britten. They recorded this together and Haydn's wonderful cello concerto in C together
35년전 가을 어느 날, 이 아르페지오네와 피아노를 위한 소나타를 처음 접했을때 나는 그해 가을,겨울을 온통 아르페지오네앓이를 했었다. 이 음악을 들을 때면, 한 때 내 젊은 날을 떠올리게 된다. 많은 음악가들이 연주했지만, 로스트로포비치와 브리튼의 협연은 단연코 내가 가장 즐겨듣는 연주이다.
Inimitable communication between two old friends Rostropovich and Britten, makes for a performance that is intuitive, gentle and exact. The remastering brings it all to life with an immediate presence. Bravo! I can only applaud this project and thank you guys for making remarkable recordings available via this channel.
I can honestly say: the music lover inside of me cannot live without this recording. Ever since I was exposed to its multifacetted perfection back in the 90s. To this day I wonder: how can such a beautiful thing even exist.
Do we know that this work, which remains very popular, was in fact a kind of " spotlight "?! Johan Georg Staufer commissioned it from Schubert to promote the new instrument he had developed, the arpeggione, a kind of cello-guitar. The arpeggione disappeared, the Sonata remained. Its charm, its melancholy character without heaviness, this spirit of instrumental song has touched all audiences - both in its most frequent transcription, and the one closest to the original, for cello and piano, and in other pairings (clarinet and piano, viola and piano, flute and piano, double bass and piano...). The recording made by Mstislav Rostropovitch with the composer Benjamin Britten, who was also an excellent pianist, is a discreetly nostalgic gem of elegance where the two instruments dialogue like two friends, in a harmony of sonorities that allows each one to blossom at its best, from the supple piano, full of nuances, to the cello that delivers its intimate singing with a modest restraint. And what a sound! An unmixed pleasure. Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata D 821 in A minor (reference recording: Daniil Shafran, L.Pecherskaya): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RGdJub1nx1U.html 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : spoti.fi/3016eVr 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : bit.ly/2M1Eop2 ❤️ If you like CM//RR content, please consider membership at our Patreon page. Thank you :) www.patreon.com/cmrr
Can’t get better than this, the musicality, the pace, the phrasing and the fragility that this music implies is all of it A gem, thank you for posting it David
Do not use word genius near Franz Schubert. They are just technical performers compared to the greatest composer in history. It’s like comparing some priest with Christ.
La première fois que j'ai entendu cette interprétation, c'était à Paris au drugstore Saint Germain, dans les années 70... ce fut comme une révélation !!! Et ça le reste plus de 40 ans après à chaque nouvelle écoute
DIVINA INTERPRETAZIONE, UNICA, INIMITABILE, IRRAGGIUNGIBILE !!! DUE GIGANTESCHI MUSICISTI, FRA I PIÙ GRANDI INTERPRETI E MAESTRI DI TUTTI I TEMPI 🙏🙏💖💖🙏🙏💖💖 GRAZIE PER QUESTO MERAVIGLIOSO DONO. Cordiali saluti. Anna e Luigi
This is indeed a reference recording for this piece of work, and the only music that was prior unknown to me, but upon listening to the first time in a CD shop 20 years ago, and prompted me to immediately bought the CD. It was under Decca Legends and I still have the disk, although these days CD shops are becoming a thing of the past!
Can only echo comments below . . . best Arpeggione interpretation I have ever heard! Musical dialogue - give and take - always giving - at its very finest! SO WONDERFUL TO HAVE THIS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET!
Wunderschöne und lyrische Interpretation dieser romantischen und perfekt komponierten Sonate im gut phrasierten Tempo mit süßem Ton des Cellos und klarem Klang des Klaviers. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt lyrisch. Der intime und perfekt entsprechende Dialog zwischen den beiden unvergleichlichen Virtuosen ist immer noch unvergesslich. Die verbesserte Tonqualität ist auch ziemlich hoch als eine originale Aufnahme von mehr als fünfzig Jahren vor. Alles ist wunderbar!
Conheço bem esta sonata de Shubert e é a primeira vez que a ouço interpretada por Briten e Rostropovich... Impressionante, belíssima e inexcedível interpretação. Um Schubert groumet. A singular sensibilidade de Schubert, a sua irredutível tristeza e insuportável angústia aqui realçadas pelos dois excelentes intérpretes. Um devido agradecimento a "Classical Music".
슈베르트의 멜로디는 슬픔을 띤게 많이 있습니다. 슈베르트는 생전에 음악으로도 크게 인정을 받지 못했고 가난때문에 피아노도 살 수 없었죠. 작곡가임에도 겨우 말년에야 자신만의 피아노를 살 수 있었습니다. 하지만 슈베르트는 슬픔을 분노로 이끌지 않고 음악으로 승화시켰습니다. 그래서 그의 음악은 힘든 사람들에게 위안이 됩니다. 인생의 크니큰 슬픔을 몸소 겪고 이해한 음악가이기 때문이죠.
Britten est absolument FANTASTIQUE..! Sublime équilibre entre les deux mains, on perçoit des subtilités harmoniques qui parfois ne sont pas audibles chez d'autres interprètes. Et puis Rostro.... Merci...!
The most deeply beautiful and moving performance of this gorgeous sonata that I have heard . It does my heart good. Sorely needed in these dark times. Thank you.
Perhaps the most delightful and satisfying recording of this work Britten's piano playing was a revelation when I first found this recording in our School of Music Library many years ago and of course -the Master cellist Rostropvich! Thank you for making it available.
This piece by Shubert and played by Masters of the Piano and Cello is truly Sublime...feeding pleasure to every crevice and corner of the mind...Just Wonderful!!
No version, none, has equaled, or even gotten to the level of this interpretation. It´s so precisely Schubertian, so deep that many many years will pass until anyone gets to fit this shoes, that if anyone gets to. Amazing Britten-Rostropovich. Thanks for posting!
This is one of the first records I ever bought (or maybe received) of cello music. I never could imagine mastering the instrument to this degree (nor did I), but I’m an Olympic-level appreciator of Maestro Rostropovich!
Sehr schöne dialogische Interpretation eines sehr schönen Schuberts. Das ist das Europa und darüber hinaus, das wir weiter aufbauen sollten. Musik als Anfang einer nicht nur respektvollen, sondern kreativen harmonischen Welt.
La mejor versión de esta maravillosa sonata es la de Rostropovich & Britten; después de escuchar muchas otras, incluyendo las de Maisky y Yo-Yo Ma, etc., no tengo dudas: ésta de R&B es simplemente perfecta, un diálogo insuperable entre los dos instrumentos.
Quelle superbe interprétation, chaque note est ciselée, pleine de sensibilité !Pourquoi ne se joue-t-il plus ainsi ,les œuvres de ces musiciens géniaux?
You need a transparent lens into the human soul in order to properly convey all the range of emotion and ideas in this piece. These two historical icons provide a great example in this recording of how this can be done.
There are so many interpretations that roll along at faster tempi and louder dynamics: popular favorites on the radio that ruined the sonata for me. In the hands of Britten and Rostropovich it's an entirely different piece and I'm so happy to hear this work played with such subtlety and understanding for the first time!
Quando si parla ( e si ascolta) di Violoncello ( il Signore dell’ Orchestra) Rostropovitch è un esecutore assoluto. Direi mostra : una Dolce e Suadente Prepotenza!!!
which is absoluletly believable according to those two exceptional artists of their century. i own this recording for almost 30 yrs and it is the best recording of Schuberts' "Arpeggione" i know so far. Rostro isn't reborn yet. Do you also know the legendary recording of the Schuberts' Piano Trio in B major from 1928 with Thibaud-Casals-Cortot?
On passe son temps à lire et on est toujours tenté de laisser quelques commentaires péremptoires ou définitifs sur YT : "La plus belle chanson du monde", "Best concert ever" etc... Seulement là, c'est approprié. L’œuvre elle-même est exceptionnelle dans sa forme et son contenu émotionnel. J'oserais un parallèle avec le Concerto pour clarinette de Mozart. Dans les 2 œuvres, il y a un mélange de mélancolie et de sérénité, une lumière qui vient d'ailleurs, qui vous porte très, très loin, et qui vous fait oublier votre condition humaine. Quant à l’interprétation, elle est juste miraculeuse. Tous les commentaires sur la qualité des interprètes sont justes, mais il y a surtout une humilité, une parfaite entente pour s'effacer derrière l’œuvre qu'on ne rencontre que très rarement. Donc avis péremptoire : si vous n'aimez pas une telle interprétation, on ne peut plus rien pour vous. 😄
Without presumption I think I have a certain confidence with Britten, Rostropovich and with all the enormous things they left us, but what I learned here is beautiful. Other things, precious things. Thanks.
Absolutely amazing performance of this marvelous masterpiece! One of my all time favorite recordings at all. Great sound remastering! Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️🙏
I was fortunate to attend one of his last performances in Kennedy Center, we ended up at the "quire" section for some mysterious reason; facing him and at the back of orchestra staring at him all along the performance as a conductor!
As a greatest songwriter, Schubert made about 700 songs for Vocal, Piano, Cello, Trios, and Quartets in addition to 9 symphonies and others. His short life was full of musics with romantic melodies.
Beautiful! One of my fondest memories to this day is my 1st ever orchestral concert as a child where maestro Rostroprovich conducted the US National Symphony. Many years later, l made the acquaintance of John Marcellus, who had been principle trombone of the National Symphony at the time, and even got to work with him a little bit. It's difficult to put into words how much l adore the great performances of Rostroprovich on cello from before l was even born! And all of that says nothing about my boundless adoration of Britten.
