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| One of the most exquisite pieces of music for cello and piano. It was so great, that Amy Beach herself saw it fit to do two versions of it- one for piano solo, and one for this combination. Simple, yet profound, there is nothing more that can be said after the last sounds die out. |
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CD: A Second Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Patience for the Harvest
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| This wonderfully evocative work, first written for violin and piano, was adapted by Amy Beach herself for cello and piano. The work shows Beach's influences, Chopin and Liszt, yet it is compellingly in her own language, creating a loving and effective character piece on the par with her best songs. |
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CD: Patience for the Harvest
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| First Movement from the Sonata #1 in e minor Op. 38 by Johannes Brahms |
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Credits: harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| Second movement from the Sonata #1 in e minor Op. 38 by Johannes Brahms. |
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| Allegro from Sonata #1 in e-minor, Op. 38 by Johannes Brahms |
CD: Entelechy
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Entelechy
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| One of the few treasures Chopin left to the world of the cello is the sonata op.65 a work of unique beauty and depth. The slow movement of this work is a sublime piece of music. |
CD: A Second Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: A Second Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| Fanny Hensel's 1829 Capriccio in A-flat major for cello and piano was likely composed for and first performed by her baby brother Paul. By all accounts a very good cellist, nonetheless, when surrounded by two of the greatest wunderkind of all time - Felix and Fanny, the banking trade was chosen for Paul by the Mendelssohn clan. Fanny would have known and perhaps performed Beethoven's Five cello sonatas before composing the Capriccio. The work exhibits several interesting early Romantic traits: 1) using the key of A-flat major for a string work was highly unusual in the previous classical period 2) exploring the cello's upper ranges 3) the form itself: allowing sudden mood and tonality changes |
CD: Song Without Words
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| Fanny Hensel's 1828 Fantasia in g-minor for cello and piano was composed for and dedicated to her baby brother Paul Mendelssohn. By all accounts Paul was a better than average cellist, played on a Stradivarius cello bought for him by the family, and participated in the 'Sunday Matinees' - the Sunday concerts held in the Mendelssohn household. These concerts spotlighted older works and the best recent works in carefully prepared rehearsals featuring all four Mendelssohn siblings: Felix and Fanny on piano, Paul on cello, and sister Rebekka singing songs composed for her by both Felix and Fanny. The Fantasia is a fascinating work in that it spotlights Fanny's eagerness to explore certain romantic tendencies including modulating to remote keys earlier in the work, sudden mood changes, exploration of the cello's range from very low to high within a measure at times; all mannerisms of the new romantic spirit in music that brother Felix was less willing to accept in his work. |
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CD: Song Without Words
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| A lovely work, originally written for piano solo and arranged for cello and piano by Harry Clark. We think Fanny would have approved! It just fits this combination perfectly! |
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CD: Song Without Words
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Song Without Words
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Sanda Schuldmann, piano |
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CD: Patience for the Harvest
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Entelechy
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Patience for the Harvest
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| The sole "Song Without Words" for cello and piano by Felix Mendelssohn was dedicated to the brilliant woman cellist Lisa Cristiani. Along with two previous Sonatas, and the early Variations Concertantes, this is the last work he composed for cello and piano. This form -song without words - was dear to Mendelssohn's heart, as he and sister Fanny both composed many dozens respectively. There is some doubt as to the year of completion, but 1845 is the best guess musicologists have come up with so far, making this quite a late work in Mendelssohn's career. The work is quite conservative, even by Mendelssohn's classical/romantic standards, yet because of the beauty of the writing is a highly effective and welcome addition to cellist's repertoire. Within a year and a half after completion of this work, Mendelssohn was dead at the age of 35. |
CD: Song Without Words
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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| Felix Mendelssohn's 1829 Variations Concertantes for cello and piano was dedicated to his brother Paul. Paul, by all contemporary accounts a very good cellist, was chosen to be the banker of the family when his gifts were measured to the standards of Felix, Fanny and sister Rebekka( a first rate singer). Most likely Felix and Paul would have given the first performance of this work in their home as part of the 'Sunday Matinees' series, a weekly concert of both old and new work performed by the Mendelssohn four and eminent visiting artists. Paul would have been 16, Felix 20, at the time of the premiere. A scant two years later Paul was sent from Berlin to London to learn the banking trade. The Variations Concertantes is considerably more virtuoso for the piano than the cello but makes use of several effective cellistic effects including pizzicati, a short cadenza, and is very skillfully written for the cello. As for the piano part, this is one of those works where Felix 'lets his hair down', and imitates the gypsy cembalom. One wonders if Brahms knew of this work when composing the finale of his Piano Quartet in G minor! |
CD: Song Without Words
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Patience for the Harvest
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Patience for the Harvest
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Jill Clayburgh/speaker, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Entelechy
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: A Second Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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MP3.com CD: Women Composers - buy it!
CD: Entelechy
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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MP3.com CD: Women Composers - buy it!
CD: A Second Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: A Second Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: A Second a Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: A Second Glance
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Entelechy
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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CD: Entelechy
Label: Chamber Music PLUS
Credits: Harry Clark/cello, Sanda Schuldmann/piano |
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