Shostakovich, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov: Works for Viola & Piano / Gerard Causse, Brigitte Engerer

Shostakovich, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, & Rachmaninov: Works for Viola & Piano / G

Label: Mirare
Catalog No: MRR 172
Format: CD
Release Date: 2012-05-08
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 59 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 3760127221722

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Notes & Reviews:

From Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Russian music has often found its truest voice in elegies. With Glazunov and Tchaikovsky, they are recollections of childhood, or nostalgia for another world. While Rachmaninoff evokes purity in his Vocalise, in his Sonata, Shostakovich intones a swansong, a song of death. In the warm timbre of Gérard Caussé's viola and the generous sonority of Brigitte Engerer's piano, all the melancholy, tenderness and pain of Russia find eloquent expression.

American Record Guide, September / October 2012
I can heartily recommend this for the performances of the Russian romantics, but if you dare to hear the plaint of a condemned yet innocent soul that exists in hopeless dread, Bashmet and Richter are the men, like Dante's Virgil, who can lead you to him, all the way down this spiral of Hell crafted in sound.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, France (09/2011).



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>Glazunov, Alexander : Elegy for viola & piano in G minor, Op. 44
  • Performers: Brigitte Engerer (Piano); Gérard Caussé (Viola)
  • Running Time: 5 min. 42 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Written: 1893

>Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Morceaux (6) for Piano, Op. 19
  • Performers: Gérard Caussé (Viola); Brigitte Engerer (Piano)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 57 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Written: 1873

>Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 :: 3. Mélodie en mi bémol majeur
  • Performers: Gérard Caussé (Viola); Brigitte Engerer (Piano)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 34 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Written: 1878

>Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Pieces (6) for Piano, Op. 51
  • Performers: Brigitte Engerer (Piano); Gérard Caussé (Viola)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Waltz
  • Written: 1882

>Rachmaninov, Sergei : Songs (14), Op. 34
  • Performers: Gérard Caussé (Viola); Brigitte Engerer (Piano)
  • Running Time: 6 min. 8 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic

>Shostakovich, Dmitri : Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147
  • Performers: Gérard Caussé (Viola); Brigitte Engerer (Piano)
  • Notes: Composition written: 1975.
  • Running Time: 34 min. 24 sec.
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1975