Victor Julien-Laferrière & David Fray: Brahms, Beethoven & Schumann

Victor Julien-Laferrière and David Fray

Fellow countrymen among themselves: cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière and pianist David Fray. While Julien-Laferrière likes a powerfully accentuated tone, Fray tends towards the lighter side of piano playing. What both musicians have in common is French refinement and a sense of good taste. This is also evident from the chosen repertoire: highlights from the repertoires of Schumann, Beethoven and Brahms.

Brahms, Beethoven and Schumann

The nineteenth-century emancipation of the cello can be read from this program. Beethoven's Sonata in A was published by Pleyel as Grande Sonate pour le Pianoforte, avec accompagnement de Violoncelle obligé . Schumann wrote the Fantasiestücke , op. 73 for clarinet and piano; he indicated that the clarinet part could also be played by a violin or a cello. In Brahms' First Cello Sonata, the cello finally has no subordinate role. All three works show the cello at its most beautiful.