(2015) A Russian Album, Duo Zappa-Mainolfi, Cello & Piano Joaquín Turina As the holidays draw near

As the holidays draw near it is time for Claves Records to put on its Saint Nicolas costume

harmony and conducting

Elle est à juste titre considérée non seulement comme l’œuvre la plus importante de ce compositeur

Vargas’ personal selection of favorites was arranged by Paul Angerer especially for the gifted tenor

The one-movement Quartet in B-flat Major was composed in the summer of 1865 and was based on a Ukrainian folk song that Tchaikovsky had heard sung by women working in the garden

(2015) A Russian Album, Duo Zappa-Mainolfi, Cello & Piano Joaquín Turina As the holidays draw nearThe three Russian cello sonatas on this CD offer three strikingly different takes on the genre all, however, stemming from the tradition of what can be called Soviet neoclassicism. Shostakovichs Cello Sonata in d minor, op. 40 (1934) was in one of the first expressions of this trend. Shostakovich bows to papa Haydn more than once in the traditional four movement cycle comprised of a sonata Allegro, a happy go lucky Scherzo, a meditative Largo and a