Cello Sonatas by Krizhanovsky & Potolovsky

[Alan Howe]

You are welcome to start another thread...

[febnyc]

Oh, many thanks.

I'll drop the subject of the Russian composers song - am getting too much flak from all quarters.  Anyway, our boy Krizhanovsky is therein memorialized for all eternity.

[Christopher]

As punishment you should pick out the Unsungs from the song and direct us to recordings of their works!! 

[Alan Howe]

Fine! But not in this thread! 

[febnyc]

Enough already! Let's get back to the music!

Well, to get back to the music - albeit a bit late - these are two gorgeous Sonatas.  I cannot decide which is the better, so I'll take them equally.  Inter alia, the Khrizhanovsky has a magnificent slow movement and the Potolovsky finale is almost orchestral - amazing to realize that there are only two instruments at work here.  The cellist Jaroslav Domzal is marvelous.  A 5-star disc, to be sure.

[Alan Howe]

Glad you like them too. Thought it was just me...