If you've been following the career of cellist Mischa Maisky, you've no doubt already encountered his previous recordings of "songs without words," his discs featuring songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Mendelssohn arranged for cello and piano. This 2007 disc of works by Russian composer Sergey Rachmaninov called Elégie is a continuation of Maisky's 2005 disc Vocalise, which included works by several Russian composers, including Rachmaninov. Here, Maisky includes two works originally for cello and piano -- the massive ...
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If you've been following the career of cellist Mischa Maisky, you've no doubt already encountered his previous recordings of "songs without words," his discs featuring songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Mendelssohn arranged for cello and piano. This 2007 disc of works by Russian composer Sergey Rachmaninov called Elégie is a continuation of Maisky's 2005 disc Vocalise, which included works by several Russian composers, including Rachmaninov. Here, Maisky includes two works originally for cello and piano -- the massive four-movement Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, and the slight but exceedingly sensuous Oriental Danse, Op. 2/2 -- three arrangements of works for solo piano for cello and piano -- the Elégie and Mélodie from Opus 3 and the Prélude in G major from Opus 23 -- and five song transcriptions -- Twilight, How Everyone Loves Thee, How My Heart Aches, In the Silence of the Night, and Night Is Mournful.As before in this series, the interest isn't so much in the repertoire or even in the...
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