Leonard Elschenbroich & Alexei Grynyuk - Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Four Serious Songs (2022) [Digital Download 24/192]

When the red light in Studio 2 at the famous Abbey Road Studios came on at the start of the recording sessions for Elschenbroich’s and Grynyuk’s latest ONYX recording, the control room had a very different atmosphere. The recording was made using analogue technology – tape recorders, vintage microphones, and longer takes.At no point was the recorded material subjected to a digital process.

Elschenbroich wanted to capture a specific sound for these sonatas; the recorded sound of the late 1950s and the 1960s was his goal. The result is a wonderfully

intimate, warm yet clear sound, as if the musicians are actually in the room with the listener – not clinical, not a bright superficially impressive digital sound, but a

sound that captures perfectly the best recorded sound of the golden years of the LP. Importantly, it is the sound by which the artist ‘recognises’ himself. As Elschenbroich writes in the notes ‘ the listener only needs one pair of ears and the music must come to life in their unique space’.

Tracklist:
01. Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: I. Allegro non troppo
02. Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: II. Allegretto quasi menuetto
03. Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38: III. Allegro
04. Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: I. Allegro vivace
05. Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: II. Adagio affetuoso
06. Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: III. Allegro passionato
07. Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99: IV. Allegro molto
08. 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: I. Denn es gehet dem Menschen (Arr. Cello and Piano by Leonard Elschenbroich)
09. 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: II. Ich wandte mich, und sahe an alle (Arr. Cello and Piano by Leonard Elschenbroich)
10. 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: III. O Tod, wie bitter bist du (Arr. Cello and Piano by Leonard Elschenbroich)
11. 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121: IV. Wenn ich mit Menschen und mit Engelzungen redete (Arr. Cello and Piano by Leonard Elschenbroich)


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