蘇聯傳奇(蕭士塔高維契/拉赫曼尼諾夫/普羅高菲夫) 雙程姊弟二重奏

普羅高菲夫 :慢板(選自灰姑娘) 、C大調大提琴奏鳴曲
葛拉祖諾夫:吟遊詩人之歌(大提琴版)
蕭士塔高維契:大提琴奏鳴曲,op40

演出者：Cheng⊃2; Duo 
作曲家：Sergei Prokofiev / Alexander Glazunov / Dmitri Shostakovich / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Anton Arensky / Alexander Scriabin / Sergei Rachmaninov

在造訪過西班牙和法國作品之後, 雙程姊弟二重奏的第三張在audite廠牌發行的專輯再次大膽地前進俄羅斯.

雙程姊弟二重奏的新雙CD專輯專注在蕭士塔高維契, 拉赫曼尼諾夫, 普羅高菲夫的三件大提琴和鋼琴奏鳴曲作品. 其中穿插幾首阿倫斯基, 柴可夫斯基, 葛拉祖諾夫的一系列短曲作品. 這廣泛的曲目簡短的呈現了從十九世紀中期建立聖彼得堡和俄羅斯音樂學院開始的俄羅斯大提琴音樂歷史.

大提琴家布萊恩.程在十歲時第一次登場與蒙特婁音樂家室內管弦樂團演出, 十四歲時在卡內基音樂廳首次登場表演, 他最近的一次獨奏表演是在2018年的漢堡易北愛樂廳(Elbphilharmonie)和約書亞.惠勒斯坦指揮的布萊梅德意志室內愛樂管弦樂團合作.

鋼琴家絲薇亞.程2011年在卡內基廳首次表演, 她同時以獨奏鋼琴家和協力鋼琴家身份在世界各地表演. 她最近在2018年以客座鋼琴家身份與新阿姆斯特丹交響樂團演出, 並會在2019~20音樂季與首次與新斯科細亞省交響樂團演出.

After forays to Spain and France, the Cheng2 Duo venture to Russia for their third audite album.

The Southgerman newspaper described Bryan and Silvie Cheng’s last CD, dedicated to Spanish music, as an “event of austere and severe, but also dreamy beauty”, and praised the siblings’ interpretation for “finding the correct idiom which manages to raise the temperature”. 

Their new double album centres on the three great sonatas for cello and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninov and Sergei Prokofiev. The Cheng2 Duo contrasts these with a series of shorter pieces by Anton Arensky, Piotr Tchaikovsky and Alexander Glazunov. This comprehensive programme represents a short history of Russian cello music which began with the foundation of the great music conservatoires in Saint Petersburg and Moscow in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Cellist Bryan Cheng is hailed internationally for his “absolutely astonishing” (La Presse, Montréal) command of the cello, and “abundant facility, innate musicality, and sense of joy” (New York Concert Review). He made his solo debut at age 10 with the Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal, his Carnegie Hall recital debut at 14, and most recently, his Elbphilharmonie solo debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and conductor Joshua Weilerstein in 2018.

Lauded for her “extraordinarily varied palette” (WholeNote Magazine) and “purely magical” playing (New York Concert Review), pianist Silvie Cheng illuminates musical works with her exquisite touch at the keyboard. Since her Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2011, she has performed as both soloist and Collaborative pianist across the globe. As guest soloist with orchestra, Silvie most recently made her debut with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra
in 2018 and will debut with Symphony Nova Scotia in the 2019-20 season.

曲目介紹：

CD 1 (01:00:46)
 SERGEI PROKOFIEV / MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH Cinderella, Op. 87 (04:59)
1 Adagio: The Prince and Cinderella, Op. 97bis / Op. 97a arranged for Cello and Piano (04:59) 
 SERGEI PROKOFIEV Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 119 (24:36)
2 I. Andante grave – Moderato animato (11:11) 
3 II. Moderato (05:01) 
4 III. Allegro, ma non troppo (08:24) 
 ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
5 Chant du ménestrel, Op. 71 (03:52) 
 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICHSonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, Op. 40 (27:19)
6 I. Allegro non troppo (11:50) 
7 II. Allegro (03:19) 
8 III. Largo (08:11) 
9 IV. Allegro (03:59) 
 
CD 2 (01:02:17)
 PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
1 Pezzo capriccioso in B Minor, Op. 62 (06:39) 
 ANTON ARENSKY Two Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 12 (07:12)
2 No. 1 Petite Ballade (03:04) 
3 No. 2 Danse Capricieuse (04:08) 
 ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
4 Romance for Cello and Piano (02:02) 
 SERGEI RACHMANINOV Lied for Cello and Piano in F Minor (02:18)
5 Lentamente, molto cantabile (02:18) 
 SERGEI RACHMANINOV Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19 (37:50)
6 I. Lento. Allegro moderato. Allegro molto (13:42) 
7 II. Allegro scherzando (06:37) 
8 III. Andante (06:05) 
9 IV. Allegro mosso (11:26) 
 SERGEI RACHMANINOV 14 Romances, Op. 34 (06:16)
10 No. 14 Vocalise (06:16)