Duo sonatas
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The Cello Sonata by Alexander Zemlinsky, written in 1894, was rediscovered only a few years ago. Although is clearly influenced by Brahms, the sonata already prefigures 20th-century music. Zemlinsky, long overshadowed by his friends and fellow composers Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg, is stylistically somewhere between late romanticism and modernism. The composer said of himself: "I can wait; my time will come only after my death."
Program:
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Sonata for cello and piano in A minor
Performed by:
Johannes Moser, cello
Paul Rivinius, piano
Recorded by Deutsche Welle at the Collegium Leoninum, in Bonn, Germany on September 25, 2009.
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