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Classical Music | Cello Music
Samuel Barber
Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 6
PlayRecorded on 05/15/2013, uploaded on 11/14/2013
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Written in 1932, Barber’s Cello Sonata is an early work written in the composer’s final year of study at the Curtis Institute of Music. However, it is by no means a student work as it displays his hallmark lyrical and dramatic style within meticulously interwoven piano and cello lines. In three movements, the sonata sandwiches a mostly playful scherzando within two stormy outer movements. The first movement features both an agitato rising first theme built on a leaping motive that is incessantly passed between cello and piano, and a heart-on-sleeve second theme that contrasts the brooding temperament that pervades the work as a whole. The aptly named Allegro appassionato third movement explodes with a rhapsodic opening theme in the piano (later taken by the cello) that is written out in such a way as to sound declaimed and almost improvised. The finale ultimately builds to a feverish climax that concludes with emphatic chords in both instruments. Yves Dharamraj
More music by Samuel Barber
Excursions Op 20 No 3
Canzone
Sea-Snatch, from Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Adagio, from String Quartet No. 2
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Canzone)
String Quartet, Op. 11
Excursions, Op. 20
A green lowland of pianos, from Three Songs, Op.45
Sonata in e-flat minor, Op. 26
At Saint Patrick's Purgatory, from Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Performances by same musician(s)
L’heure exquise
Toccata for Cello and Piano
Song without Words, Op. 109
In the Style of Albéniz
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