Cello Sonatas by Guillaume Bellom

Richard Strauss, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Guillaume Bellom | Yan Levionnois

Cello Sonatas

Format: CD
Label: Fondamenta
UPC: 0889854412128
Catnr: FON 1702026
Release date: 06 October 2017
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Label
Fondamenta

UPC
0889854412128

Catalogue number
FON 1702026

Release date
06 October 2017

"A very nice CD."

Stretto, 23-12-2017

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About the album

Yan Levionnois made a name for himself with his very first album, Cello Sollo, released by Fondamenta in 2013, garnering the prestigious “ffff” label awarded by Télérama magazine. This was followed by Pierrots Lunaires, with violinist Mélanie Clapiès, also brought out by Fondamenta.

Guillaume Bellom has taken an unconventional path, training as both a pianist and a violinist, and was also awarded Télérama magazine’s esteemed “ffff” label for an album dedicated to Schubert in 2013. In 2017 he was nominated in the Instrumental Revelation category at the French Victoires de la Musique.

Cello Sonatas is devoted to the German romantic repertoire and features Schubert’s Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor D. 821, Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in D Major, Op. 58 and the more rarely recorded Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6, by Richard Strauss.

Schubert is honoured with a performance of his Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano. Don’t try looking out for an arpeggione – only about a dozen of these instruments have survived to the present day. It was a hybrid of a guitar and cello, played with a bow, but which never gained popularity. The eponymous sonata, on the other hand, is still considered as one of Schuber’s major works.

Mendelssohn composed the Sonata Number 2 for Cello and Piano in 1843, almost 20 years after Schubert’s composition. Mendelssohn made an early start: at the age of 12, he composed an opera, and his famous octet was written when he was 16. This sonata is classical in both its form and musical inspiration, a real gem. Mendelssohn was not only a great composer, but he also revived the music of J.S. Bach.

Yan Levionnois machte sich bereits mit seinem allerersten Album ‘Cello Solo‘ einen Namen, das 2013 bei Fondamenta erschien und von der Zeitschrift Télérama den renommierten Preis “ffff” erhielt. Es folgte Pierrots Lunaires mit der Violinistin Mélanie Clapiès, die ebenfalls von Fondamenta herausgebracht wurde.
Guillaume Bellom hat einen unkonventionellen Weg eingeschlagen und sich sowohl als Pianist als auch als Violinist qualifiziert. Außerdem wurde Guillaume Bellom 2013 mit dem angesehenen Preis “ffff” des Magazins Télérama für ein Schubert gewidmetes Album ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2017 wurde er in der Kategorie Instrumental Revelation bei den französischen Victoires de la Musique nominiert.
‘Cello-Sonatas‘ widmet sich dem deutsch-romantischen Repertoire und enthält Schuberts Sonate für Arpeggione und Klavier a-Moll D. 821, Mendelssohns Sonate Nr. 2 für Violoncello und Klavier in D-Dur, Op. 58 und die seltener eingespielte Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier in F-Dur, Op. Sechs, von Richard Strauss.
Schubert wird mit einer Aufführung seiner Sonate für Arpeggione und Klavier geehrt. Versuchen Sie nicht, nach einem Arpeggione Ausschau zu halten - nur etwa ein Dutzend dieser Instrumente sind bis heute erhalten geblieben. Es war ein Hybrid aus Gitarre und Cello, gespielt mit einem Bogen, der aber nie an Popularität gewann. Die gleichnamige Sonate dagegen gilt noch immer als eines der Hauptwerke Schuberts.
Mendelssohn komponierte 1843, fast 20 Jahre nach Schuberts Komposition, die Sonate Nummer 2 für Violoncello und Klavier. Mendelssohn begann früh: Mit 12 Jahren komponierte er eine Oper, mit 16 Jahren schrieb er sein berühmtes Oktett. Diese Sonate ist klassisch in ihrer Form und musikalische Inspiration, ein wahres Schmuckstück. Mendelssohn war nicht nur ein großer Komponist, sondern belebte auch die Musik von J. S. Bach.

Artist(s)

Guillaume Bellom (piano)

Yan Levionnois (cello)

Yan Levionnois obtained the first prize at the André Navarra and In Memoriam Rostropovitch international competitions, and was awarded two special prizes at the last Rostropovitch Competition, including that for the most remarkable personality. He is the Adami 2013 classical revelation, and the prize winner of the Banque Populaire and Safran Foundations. He has given solo performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under conductors such as Daniele Gatti, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Jacek Kaspszyk, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Heinrich Schiff and Arie Van Beek. His first solo cd, “Cello Solo”, was released in February 2013 for Fondamenta, and obtained the prestigious ffff of Télérama magazine. His discography also includes...

His first solo cd, “Cello Solo”, was released in February 2013 for Fondamenta, and obtained the prestigious ffff of Télérama magazine. His discography also includes a recording of Rachmaninov's second Elegiac Trio with Renaud Capuçon and Denis Kozhukhin, in the “Martha Argerich and Friends” festival, for EMI classics, as well as “Pierrots Lunaires”, a violin and cello duets cd with violinist Mélanie Clapiès, released in 2014 for Fondamenta.

He has many chamber music partners, notably Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, David Grimal, Antoine Tamestit, Gérard Caussé, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Brigitte Engerer, David Guerrier, Emmanuel Pahud, Richard Galliano and the Ebène Quartet. An ardent defender of the music of his time, he has worked with composers such as Kryštof Mařatka, Jonathan Harvey, Richard Dubugnon, Martin Bresnick, and Eric Tanguy.

Passionate about Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry, he created Illuminations, a music and poetry show, in which he is both cellist and narrator.

Yan Levionnois began studying the cello with his father before continuing in Paris with Marc Coppey and Philippe Muller, Oslo with Truls Mørk, and New York with Timothy Eddy. He also attended master-classes with Gary Hoffman, Heinrich Schiff, Natalia Gutman, Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis, and Natalia Shakhovskaïa.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; his tone poems, including Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, and An Alpine Symphony; and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; his tone poems, including Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, and An Alpine Symphony; and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire.
Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

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