Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata D 821 / Presentation + New Mastering (Ct. rec.: Rostropovich / Britten)

🔊 Download high-fidelity classical music: Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano D821. *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00-03:08) moderato (00:00) (13:32) (18:06) Cello : Mstislav Rostropovich Piano : Benjamin Britten Recorded in 1968 New Mastering in 2020 by AB for CMRR 🔊 Join us with your phone on our WhatsApp fanpage (our latest album preview): 🔊 Find our entire catalog on Qobuz: 🔊 Discover our playlists on Spotify: ❤️ Support us on Patreon Do we know that this work, which remains very popular, was in fact a kind of “ spotlight “?! Johan Georg Staufer commissioned it from Schubert to promote the new instrument he had developed, the arpeggione, a kind of cello-guitar. The arpeggione disappeared, the Sonata remained. Its charm, its melancholy character without heaviness, this spirit of instrumental song has touched all audiences - both in its most frequent transcription, and the one closest to the original, for cello and piano, and in other pairings (clarinet and piano, viola and piano, flute and piano, double bass and piano...). The recording made by Mstislav Rostropovitch with the composer Benjamin Britten, who was also an excellent pianist, is a discreetly nostalgic gem of elegance where the two instruments dialogue like two friends, in a harmony of sonorities that allows each one to blossom at its best, from the supple piano, full of nuances, to the cello that delivers its intimate singing with a modest restraint. And what a sound! An unmixed pleasure. Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata D 821 / LIVE 1961 (.: Mstislav Rostropovitch, Benjamin Britten): Other Album available // Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata D. 821 by Daniil Shafran 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) Tidal (Hi-Res) 🎧 Apple Music (Lossless) Deezer (Hi-Fi) 🎧 Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) Spotify (mp3) 🎧 Idagio (Hi-Fi) (soon) Youtube Music (mp4) 🔊 Download the album (Hi-Res Master) Franz Schubert PLAYLIST (reference recordings):