(2015) A Russian Album, Duo Zappa-Mainolfi, Cello & Piano Joaquín Turina Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze

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These are early works by the German composer

(2015) A Russian Album, Duo Zappa-Mainolfi, Cello & Piano Joaquín Turina Hans Werner HenzeThe three Russian cello sonatas on this CD offer three strikingly different takes on the genre all, however, stemming from the tradition of what can be called Soviet neoclassicism. Shostakovichs Cello Sonata in d minor, op. 40 (1934) was in one of the first expressions of this trend. Shostakovich bows to papa Haydn more than once in the traditional four movement cycle comprised of a sonata Allegro, a happy go lucky Scherzo, a meditative Largo and a