![]() ![]() Even fewer have managed steadfastly to maintain a place in our current concert repertoire. Some of these have already vanished from the active catalogues.īooklet annotator Kenneth Hamilton cites, "There are relatively few nineteenth-century cello sontas. Several others have emerged over the years, including Moray Welsh and Ronald Smith, Henkel and Sermet, Bertrand and Amoyel, Schwarz and Klaas and Chiffoleau and Gardon. This new Hyperion disc is not the first recording of the Alkan. The Chopin Cello Sonata is certainly more well known than Alkan's sonata and has seen many more recordings of the work than the Alkan sonata. Since Raymond Lewenthal and Ronald Smith's pioneering recordings of Alkan, I must admit we have come a long way in the recordings department regarding Alkan's music. Alkan remains one of the most unheard or unrecorded composers of the high Romantic period from a crop of composers that included Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and their ilk. ![]()
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