Cello and piano, dialogues

In the twilight of his life, when he started to work on his last cello and piano sonata (1922), Gabriel Fauré recalled the first score his master Saint-Saëns had written in this genre half a century earlier (1872). “A masterpiece that has been heard all too rarely, and that is because cellists claim that the cello part is less brilliant than the piano part!” as he wrote to a friend. His musical conversation with the recently deceased composer is the counterpart of the instrumental dialogue that takes place in their respective works. Between search for balance and mutual enrichment, the piano and cello intertwine to find the spirit of the Belle Époque.

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