Sonaten Nr.1-4 für Cello solo

Mieczysław Weinberg was born in Poland, fled the Nazis twice, and ultimately settled in Moscow, where he was Shostakovich's closest musical friend for more than 30 years. As a composer of 26 symphonies, seventeen string quartets and seven operas, he was also a master of the solo sonata for string instruments, a genre with which Shostacovich was unfamiliar and which was scarcely cultivated in the Soviet Union. His four sonatas for solo cello were composed between 1960 and 1985 and contain some of his most concentrated and poetic inspirations. Mario Brunello is a versatile and innovative cellist with one of the broadest repertoires, ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. After five albums devoted to the masters of the 18th century and in particular Bach on the cello piccolo, Brunello returns to his beloved "Maggini" to present these milestones of cello literature from the second half of the 20th century: "Music that immediately appealed to me, an overwhelming power that immediately—when you read it, study it and then gradually perform it—casts a spell over you, so that you can almost not do without it".