Chopin and Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas

Product Description Together with long-term duo partner Inon Barnatan, best-selling Decca cellist Alisa Weilerstein records two great works of cello chamber music: the Rachmaninov and Chopin sonatas. Weilerstein and Barnatan are two of the world's leading instrumentalists, and this album clearly shows the benefits of a long-lasting chamber music partnership with two exceptional musicians, captured in their prime. Review The pair closed with Chopin s Sonata for Cello and Piano, a work of such fiendish difficulty that even Chopin was convinced that parts of it might be unplayable. Ms. Weilerstein and Mr. Barnatan put that notion to rest with their poise and passion, and they returned amid thunderous applause The New York Times --The New York Times Their interpretations were like a series of marvelously expressive close-ups: every note and phrase pinned to an exact emotion, every emotion saturating the frame. --The Boston Globe