Cheng² Duo - Francoeur

Watch impressions of the recording session with the Cheng² Duo for the additional download tracks to their debut album on audite ("Violoncelle français"):
Cheng² Duo: Bryan Cheng, cello & Silvie Cheng, piano
Louis Francoeur: Sonata No. 4 in E major, II. Allegro vivo
[IIme. Livre de Sonates, a violon seul, et basse continue]
Cello version by Jean-Delphin Alard and Arnold Trowell
Album: Violoncelle français
www.audite.de/9...
A young duo introduces itself. The interpretations of Cheng² Duo are steeped in a rare balance of unfiltered youthful joy and enthusiasm in their playing on one hand, and mature, historically informed and profound interpretations on the other, commanding attention from the very first note.
Bryan and Silvie Cheng are brother and sister; he is a cellist, she a pianist, and together they are the Cheng² Duo (pronounced Cheng Squared Duo), now presenting their debut CD with audite. These two Canadian artists are children of Chinese immigrants: she was born in Tokyo, he in Ottawa; today, he lives in Berlin, she in New York - cosmopolitans, therefore, with a diverse cultural background. Both are young, barely or around twenty years of age: audite's youngest artists to date, which also reflects the label's strong commitment to its performers. This debut CD marks the beginning of an audite recording series featuring Cheng² Duo. A further recording of Spanish works for cello and piano is already being planned.
This first disc makes the panorama of French chamber music written between the 1860s and the 1910s come alive in all its diversity: from multiple-movement works whose composers mainly drew on Beethoven and the German romantic composers, through to character pieces which formed part of the repertoire performed in sophisticated salons. Principal trends, some of which were devoted to one another by way of trenchant polemics, are represented by works of César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns and his student Gabriel Fauré, as well as Claude Debussy. This release features two additional tracks, excerpts of Louis Francœur's Sonata in E major in arrangements by Jean-Delphin Alard and Arnold Trowell, which are available as download.
recording: February 15-17, 2016
recording location: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem
cello: Bartolomeo #Tassini, Venice (1754) - piano: #Steinway D (Gerd Finkenstein)
equipment: #Sennheiser MKH 20, MKH 40, Microtech #Gefell M 930, #Neumann KM 130, KM 140, #Brüel & Kjær 4006; #RME Micstasy, ADI8QS; ME #Geithain RL 901 + 906
recording format: pcm, 96 kHz / 24bit
pcm-dsd conversion: Philips AFC, Sigma Delta type D
recording producer: Dipl.-Tonmeister Ludger Böckenhoff
editing: Dipl.-Tonmeister Justus Beyer
photos: Uwe Arens, Berlin
video: Burkhard Scheibe
art direction and design: AB-Design, Detmold
audite 97.698
EAN 4022143976987
www.audite.de/9...

[@harrylevin9544]

Silvie and Bryan, most caring musicians, will be returning to play our Manhattan soup kitchen in April. Their playing transformed the souls of a hundred beloved diners: alcoholics, addicts, senior citizens who can't make ends meet on fixed incomes. Soothed paranoid schizophrenics more deeply than any medication. The Chengs are superb human beings.

[@VinIcius-em6li]

Brilliant!!

[@hugodominguez_cellist]

BRAVO¡¡¡¡¡

[@akrishnaa]

Lovely!

[@altravolta]

WOW!!!!!!!!

[@km6206]

This (2nd mvmnt) is Arnold Trowell's forgery from 1924 not Francœur. Lots of misattributions for this piece. Look it up! There may more Trowell edits in the other movements....