The Israeli-born cellist Inbal Segev has pursued a career marked by boutique performances and recordings since moving to the U.S. in 1990 and studying with, among others, Bernard Greenhouse. In the late 2010s, she teamed with the young Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen in recitals, and the pair has a good, confident rapport. The music on this release is not exactly obscure, but the Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, Chopin's last published work and one of his few for anything other than solo piano, is something of an ...
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The Israeli-born cellist Inbal Segev has pursued a career marked by boutique performances and recordings since moving to the U.S. in 1990 and studying with, among others, Bernard Greenhouse. In the late 2010s, she teamed with the young Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen in recitals, and the pair has a good, confident rapport. The music on this release is not exactly obscure, but the Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, Chopin's last published work and one of his few for anything other than solo piano, is something of an enigma. It is, as Segev points out, marked by bel canto melody, but it is also densely constructed in the manner of some of Chopin's most compact and contrapuntally terse piano pieces. Sample the opening movement, where Segev strikes a nice balance between these aspects. She plays a 1673 cello that has a highly unusual tone, giving the music a somewhat mysterious, oracular flavor. It's quite effective in Chopin's gnomic yet lyrical utterances, but in Schumann's arrangement of his own Drei...
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