‘That’s it done at last, this blasted sonata! Will it please or not?
That is the question.’ So wrote Saint-Saëns, not without humour, of his
second ‘quadruped’ for cello and piano. He adored the
cello, as is shown by much more than the famous Swan. He wrote three sonatas for it, but unfortunately the last two movements of the Third
Sonata have been lost and what is left survives only in manuscript.
Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel play it here with emotion and
total respect. The Concerto also included here is today one of the
‘musts’ of the concertante repertory for cello.
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