Benjamin Frith, the pianist, is a Gold Medal winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Masters International Piano Competition and a top prize winner in the Busoni International Piano Competition.
Performer Biography
Rohan de Saram, the cellist on this recording, was awarded a special bow by Gregor Piatigorsky after a recital and still uses it for concerts.
Composer Biography
Ivor Keys, whose Cello Sonata is featured, was a distinguished academic who became the youngest ever Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and held prestigious music chairs at Nottingham and Birmingham Universities.
Interpretation
The Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 on this album is performed in a transcription for cello and piano by Paul Klengel, a 'house arranger' for Brahms's publisher Simrock.
Album & Artwork
The three works on this album, by Ivor Keys, Jean Sibelius, and Johannes Brahms, were written some eight decades apart and represent different approaches to chamber music.
Composition History
Johannes Brahms's Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 78, was completed in 1879 during a summer holiday, and the violinist Joseph Joachim was crucial to shaping its violin part.
Composition History
Jean Sibelius's Malinconia, Op. 20, a somber fantasia for cello and piano, was likely influenced by the recent death of his daughter Kirsti when he composed it in 1900.
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