Jean-Guihen Queyras - Chopin & Rachmaninov: Cello Sonatas Format:CD Hay's performances are likewise animated

Hay's performances are likewise animated and full of life

with echoes of Claus Ogermann

With great power comes great responsibility

and only weeks before his untimely death

Jean-Guihen Queyras - Chopin & Rachmaninov: Cello Sonatas Format:CD Hay's performances are likewise animatedAfter Beethoven, Alexander Melnikov and Jean Guihen Queyras now turn to two more giants of the repertory. Chopin's Cello Sonata, his last work published in his lifetime, seems almost like a testament, sombre and tormented a world away from the radiance and surging lyricism of the youthful work by Rachmaninoff that it inspired. These two masterpieces by composers from the two chronological extremities of Romanticism, both pianists above all, are