Robert Kahn: Cello Sonatas & Two Pieces

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[Triendl] He is a wonderful artist, and he and cellist Thedéen make music most beautifully together. Urgently recommended. — Fanfare, March/April 2020

Release Date: 31st May 2019
Catalogue No: 555139-2
Label: CPO
Length: 52 minutes

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Kahn, R: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F, Op. 37

Work length19:16

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Torleif Thedéen (cello), Oliver Triendl (piano)

I. Allegro energico

Track length8:35

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length5:23

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III. Allegro risoluto

Track length5:18

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Kahn, R: Three Pieces, Op. 25

Work length10:09

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Torleif Thedéen (cello), Oliver Triendl (piano)

No. 1, Romanze in F Minor

Track length4:39

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No. 2, Serenata in A-Flat Major

Track length3:49

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No. 3, Capriccio in C Minor

Track length1:41

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Kahn, R: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 56

Work length22:57

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Torleif Thedéen (cello), Oliver Triendl (piano)

I. Allegro appassionato

Track length8:24

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II. Andante tranquillo

Track length7:55

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III. Allegro energico

Track length6:38

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Robert Kahn’s early oeuvre was initially classified primarily in relation to composers such as Robert Schumann and Robert Franz. During his later years, however, the influence of Johannes Brahms – which surely was intentional – became clearly audible. This also applies to the three works for violoncello and piano recorded here. Brahms held this composer born in Mannheim in 1865 in such high regard that he even offered him his advice in compositional matters. And in some of the movements of Kahn’s Cello Sonata No. 1 – for example, in the mirthful and playful finale – both Brahms and Schumann are recognizable as very important forerunners who stimulated his compositional development. Kahn’s tendency to compose short expressive pieces is displayed in the Three Pieces for Violoncello and Piano op. 25. The Romance in F minor in the first position is a highly expressive song piece – to a certain extent a »song without words« in the manner of Mendelssohn’s piano compositions of this sort. And from the very beginning of the Cello Sonata No. 2 there can be no doubt about Kahn’s ties to German Romanticism. The thematic design of the first movement could have been thought up by Brahms or even by Beethoven before him. Here too the material is developed and elaborated in the manner of a classically transmitted sonata movement and with a sovereign command of the compositional craft.

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March/April 2020

[Triendl] He is a wonderful artist, and he and cellist Thedéen make music most beautifully together. Urgently recommended.

Robert Kahn: Cello Sonatas & Two Pieces

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