Nina Kotova, JosÉ Feghali - Brahms, Reger, Schumann

Format: CD
ICPN: 0190295042394
Release Date: 11th June 2021
Genre: Classical

“A talent to reckon with: poised, committed, graceful and spirited,” is how the Los Angeles Times has described the Russian-American cellist Nina Kotova. Her Warner Classics catalogue already includes an album of sonatas by Rachmaninov. It is now joined by a programme of German Romantic music which she recorded with the Brazilian-born pianist José Feghali, a laureate of the Van Cliburn Competition who died aged just 53 in 2014. Spanning 65 years of musical history, the recital comprises works by Schumann and Brahms, who were close friends, and by Max Reger. He drew inspiration for his Suite No. 2 for solo cello, composed in 1914, from Pablo Casals’s advocacy of Bach’s solo suites.

TRACKLIST – A ROMANTIC RECITAL
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Cello Sonata No.1 for Piano and Cello Op.38 in E minor
1. I. Allegro non troppo
2. II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto
3. III. Allegro

MAX REGER
Suite No. 2 for Solo Cello Op.131c/2 in D minor
4. I. Präludium: Largo
5. II. Gavotte: Allegretto
6. III. Largo
7. IV. Gigue: Vivace

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Fantasiestücke for Piano and Cello, Op. 73
8. I. Zart und mit Ausdruck
9. II. Lebhaft, leicht
10. III. Rasch und mit Feuer
11. Adagio and Allegro Op.70 in A flat

Artists:
Nina Kotova, cello
José Feghali, piano (4-7)