Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor II. - Pantoum. Assez vif. (Renaud Capuçon: violino Gautier Capuçon: violoncelo Franck Braley: piano)
This was playing at Old Orchard Shopping Mall last night. A lot of pizzicato for Skokie.
Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor II. - Pantoum. Assez vif. (Renaud Capuçon: violino Gautier Capuçon: violoncelo Franck Braley: piano)
This was playing at Old Orchard Shopping Mall last night. A lot of pizzicato for Skokie.
Debussy - Sonata for cello and piano - 2. Serandae
Schumann — 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 - 4. Nicht zu rasch
Heinrich Schiff, cello
Cellist Wendy Warner owns two cellos. One was built by Becker in 1963 and the other by Gagliano in 1772; “it’s like being married to two different people,” she says.
Warner won the 4th International Rostropovich Competition in 1990. She went on to study with Rostropovich, and I was fascinated when she told us that he never played the cello for her in their lessons. Instead, he would play the piano or conduct, and he would unleash his imagination and colorful thinking. He was “very pictorial,” she says, and he wanted Warner to learn to generate her own sound with a vast palette of colors. He didn’t demonstrate because he didn’t want his students to imitate him. Warner has long believed, like Rostropovich, that people are born with an ideal sound within them, and that their task is to find it and give it voice.
Schumann - 5 Stücke im Volkston, for cello and piano, Op.102 - I. Mit Humor
