Stanisław Firlej, Wojciech Kubica - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: I. Adagio sostenuto - II. Allegro
02. Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1: III. Rondo. Allegro vivace
03. Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1 "Freje": I. Andante - Allegro vivace
04. Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1 "Freje": II. Adagio - Tempo d'andante - Allegro vivace
05. Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: I. Allegro con brio
06. Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: II. Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto
07. Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2: III. Allegro - Allegro fugato



The present release is both a continuation and the crowning of a project to record all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s five sonatas for piano and cello. It features three of them: in F major Op. 5 No. 1, in C major Op. 102 No. 1 and in D major Op. 102 No. 2. The first album in the project included the sonatas in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2, and in A major, Op. 69.
Stanislaw Firlej is one of the leading Polish cellists. He received a thorough musical training which enabled him to develop an intensive con-cert activity not only in Poland, but also abroad. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under Galina Kozolupova and Natalia Gutman, and subsequently graduated from André-Nicolas Navarra’s class at the “Accademia Chigiana” Summer Academy of Music in Siena. A professor of music, he runs a cello class at the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lódz. In 2015, he received an honorary doctor’s degree from the Academy. He also regularly teaches at masterclasses in Lancut and Luslawice.

Wojciech Kubica’s wide-ranging repertoire spans music from the Baroque to the present. In 2003, he premiered Kyrie by Jan Wincenty Hawel at a recital during the Karol Szymanowski Festival in Zakopane, He has also pursued a teaching career as a faculty member at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (2005-2007), the Academy of Music in Wroclaw (since 2005) and at the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lódz. In 2014, he received the title of Doctor of Musical Arts from the Lódz Academy.

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