Peter Nagy

Claudio Bohórquez & Péter Nagy – Brahms: Opus 38 & 99 (Sonatas for Piano and Cello) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:55 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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The German cellist – of Peruvian and Uruguayan descent – Claudio Bohórquez is one of the most in-demand soloists of our times. A student of Pergamentchikow, he quickly took to great competitions like the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition or the Rostropovitch Competition in Paris, where he gave a good account of himself, before seizing first prize at the prestigious Geneva Competition, and above all the Casals First Prize, which launched his international career. It was a career which has seen him perform at the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Gewandhaus of Leipzig, the Vienna Symphonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and of Toulouse, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. On the piano, Péter Nagy is a famous old hand, who in 1979 won the famous Hungarian Radio Competition, which opened many doors for him. A much sought-after chamber musician, he has been found alongside Miklós Perényi, Leonidas Kavakos, Kim Kashkashian, Nobuko Imai and Ruggiero Ricci. Here, our two friends have chosen a repertoire which is discographically well-represented, it’s true, but no-one will complain about this sumptuous music, sumptuously played. By way of a follow-up, we have three Hungarian Dances adapted by Alfredo Piatti, the “Paganini of the Cello”, according to Liszt, and the beautiful Lied Wie Melodien zieht es mir re-written for cello. It’s a beautiful recording, it must be said.

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