“A wonderful set of Brahms’s cello sonatas, full of individual personality and insight, from Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan, all played and recorded beautifully.”
Brahms Cello Sonatas, featuring Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan, is Gramophone’s Recording of the Month!
“Now this is my kind of Brahms playing: open-hearted, elastic and generously phrased. Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan take the opening Allegro non troppo of the E minor Sonata at a flowing pace, allowing the music’s phrases to be organised in expansive yet cogent paragraphs. Note, too, how attentive they are to Brahms’s expressive markings, so that the piano dolce in the second phrase (at 0’18”) is rendered in an exceptionally tender mezza voce. And these performances have a frisson that had me scouring the booklet to double-check that they were, in fact, studio recordings (they are); the near-orchestral power these musicians convey around 4’13” is a prime example of this concert-like electricity.“
Andrew Farach-Colton
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