(2015) A Russian Album, Duo Zappa-Mainolfi, Cello & Piano Joaquín Turina harmony and conducting

harmony and conducting

These are early works by the German composer

The one-movement Quartet in B-flat Major was composed in the summer of 1865 and was based on a Ukrainian folk song that Tchaikovsky had heard sung by women working in the garden

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sextet and octet

(2015) A Russian Album, Duo Zappa-Mainolfi, Cello & Piano Joaquín Turina harmony and conductingThe three Russian cello sonatas on this CD offer three strikingly different takes on the genre all, however, stemming from the tradition of what can be called Soviet neoclassicism. Shostakovichs Cello Sonata in d minor, op. 40 (1934) was in one of the first expressions of this trend. Shostakovich bows to papa Haydn more than once in the traditional four movement cycle comprised of a sonata Allegro, a happy go lucky Scherzo, a meditative Largo and a