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Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) Complete Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano

Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, violoncello Connie Shih, piano

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Order No.: MDG 603 1661-2

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Relational Link Traditional Orientation Three cello sonatas from four decades and at the Two decades later – Reinecke had long been a same time a mirror of Leipzig music culture mainstay in Leipzig’s music world – his second during the second half of the nineteenth century: sonata reached maturity. His strong ties to the in his compositions Carl Reinecke cultivated tradition are heard especially in the middle impressive musical relationships with Robert movement of op. 89, in which recollection of Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Mendelssohn is clearly evident. We may also Johannes Brahms and thus qualifies as an think that we are already hearing Brahms – no important link uniting the Leipzig traditions. Only wonder, since Reinecke and Brahms were united recently discovered, Reinecke’s cello sonatas in friendship – even though this point of have now been recorded by the cellist Manuel orientation becomes much clearer in the third Fischer-Dieskau and the Canadian pianist sonata from 1897, the year of Brahms’s death. Connie Shih. Romantic Heritage Pilgrimage Site Manuel Fischer-Dieskau makes a genuine As a young student Reinecke had gone on rediscovery on this recording. The interest of this pilgrimage to Leipzig with his first sonata in his renowned cellist in special works for small suitcase. How must he have felt when Schumann ensemble is not a mere coincidence. This son of lavished praise on his compositions and at the the legendary Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the same time advised him to free himself as quickly cellist Irmgard Poppen is the artistic director of as possible from the influence of his models and the aspiring Palatinate Art and Chamber Music to continue to work on perfecting his own style? Festival, at which these sonatas were first once again performed. An exhilarating as well as important new contribution to the romantic violoncello literature!

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