Gramophone Magazine
January 2023
Editor's Choice

Johannes Moser (cello), Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)

Martinů: Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 2, H. 286
Martinů: Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 1, H. 277
Martinů: Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 3, H. 340

Cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Andrei Korobeinikov present Bohuslav Martinů’s complete cello sonatas. These works belong to the most significant twentieth- century repertoire for cello and piano. Reflecting Martinů’s troubled existence, defined by wartime, emigration, longing for the homeland, yet also full of hope and life-affirming energy, the music seems entirely topical in our own troubled times. After their award- winning recording of works by Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff from 2016, Moser and Korobeinikov demonstrate their congeniality once more.

"The result are performances in which clarity and precision seem to take on an expressive power of their own...Simply put, this is the most satisfying account of Martinů’s cello sonatas on record." - Gramophone Magazine, January 2023.