Chopin: Cello Sonata; Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata - Steven Isserlis, Dénes Várjon

Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major Op 3[9'03]Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
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Introduction[3'08]
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Alla Polacca[5'55]
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Nocturne in C minor Op 15 No 1[4'27]Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884)
Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65[30'32]Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
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Maestoso[15'10]
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Scherzo[5'16]
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Largo[3'37]
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Finale: Allegro[6'29]
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Nie ma czego trzeba 'Faded and vanished' Op 74 No 13[3'34]Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), arr. Steven Isserlis (b1959)

Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821[25'54]Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
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Allegro moderato[11'55]
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Adagio –[4'31]
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Allegretto[9'28]
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Nacht und Träume D827[3'45]Franz Schubert (1797-1828), arr. Steven Isserlis (b1959)

Cellists have cause to be thankful for the impracticality and swift demise of the arpeggione, which allowed the appropriation of Schubert’s wonderful sonata for their own instrument. Dénes Várjon’s 1851 Érard lends characterful zest both here and in Chopin, while bonuses include Steven Isserlis’s own transcriptions of songs by both composers.