After Beethoven, Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras now turn to two other giants of the repertoire. Chopin's Cello Sonata, his last work to be published during his lifetime, seems almost a testament, somber and tormented - a world removed from the brilliance and bubbling lyricism of the youthful work of Rachmaninoff that inspired it. These two masterworks by composers from the two chronological extremes of Romanticism, both primarily pianists, are here placed in ideal perspective.
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