Bruno Cocset, an eminent ambassador of the Baroque cello, fulfills a teenage dream here: recording the sonatas of Beethoven.
"When we rediscover it from within, this music overwhelms us: its art of mise en abyme, its ability to deviate from the formal schema, to dare go as far as the uncontrolled gust of fury or the pause in tempo... From the side of a champion of the metronome (Beethoven collaborated in its creation) this compelling grasp for freedom creates immeasurable spaces, pushing performer and listener into unknown, unforeseen depths... The piano and cello are connected throughout the narrative by a fruitful, penetrating, exciting complementarity".
On the fortepiano, a long-time musical partner, Maude Gratton, plays two different instruments, chosen according to the character of each sonata: a Viennese piano by Johann Andreas Stein and an original John Broadwood from 1822, a model that circulated in Vienna and that Beethoven himself played. To perform this repertoire on the border between Classicism and Romanticism, Bruno Cocset commissioned a new cello from another loyal partner.
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