Antoaneta Emanuilova has regularly served as principal cellist in the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer for almost ten years and was a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in 2021 at Katharinensaal, HMT Rostock, with Carsten Storm as the Recording Producer and Tonmeister.
Performer Biography
Endri Nini, the pianist, was a founding member of the Flex Ensemble from 2012 to 2018, winning awards like the first prize at the International Robert Schumann Chamber Music Competition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album features late works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Schumann, all of which share an "incandescent intensity" and immediately seize the listener's attention.
Composer Biography
Beethoven's last two cello sonatas were written in 1815, a period when his progressing deafness led him to withdraw as a pianist and seek new forms of expression.
Performer Biography
Antoaneta Emanuilova, the cellist, won a principal position in the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne in 2007 but left in 2011 to focus on smaller ensembles.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Despite being "absolute music" without explicit programs, Beethoven often had stories and pictures in mind while composing, and Schumann used alter egos like Eusebius and Florestan to represent tendencies in his works.
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