With ruddy faces and muscular limbs, the Cello Sonatas of Brahms are the essence of the golden autumn of German Romanticism at its most effulgent and nostalgic. In the right performances, one can taste the apple and smell the wood smoke and, more, one can feel the swelling of heartfelt lyricism and with it, the surging of good, honest German emotion. In the right performances, the soul of Johannes Brahms sings through the music.
This performance by cellist
Tilmann Wick and pianist Pascal Devoyon is exactly the right performance, especially in this super-audio disc recording by Audite.
Wick's tone is strong and supple, Devoyon's accompaniment is rich and full, and together they are powerfully persuasive and completely compelling. Their performance blazes with sharp colors and dances with robust rhythms, but above all it sings in full-throated ease of the endless beauty of the world and passionate depths of the lonely heart in autumn. Audite's surround sound, super-audio CD is among the most vibrant and realistic sounding ever made.