{"id":15171,"date":"2013-10-08T08:31:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15171"},"modified":"2013-10-08T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:31:07","slug":"album-review-total-control-the-essence-of-denise-djokic-and-david-jalbert-cello-sonatas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/10\/08\/album-review-total-control-the-essence-of-denise-djokic-and-david-jalbert-cello-sonatas\/","title":{"rendered":"Album review: Total control the essence of Denise Djokic and David Jalbert cello sonatas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/cello.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15172\" alt=\"cello\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/cello.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/cello.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/cello-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/cello-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talented Candian cellist Denise Djokic and pianist David Jalbert have recorded two irresistibly expressive cello sonatas &#8212; by Sergei Rachmaninov and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin &#8212; for the ATMA Classique label. The interpretations are notable for their intense control.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And because both G-minor <em>Sonatas for Cello and Piano<\/em> feel so buttoned down, I can respect both performers&#8217; remarkable technique as well as their clear sense of where the music should go, but I can&#8217;t fall in love with the final result.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the average recording these days is so very high that recommendations really come down to such idiosyncratic judgments.<\/p>\n<p>How crazy is it for a critic to say that the performances are textbook perfect, yet somehow also fall short?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happens in a world where there are many interpretations of the same pieces of music.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Jalbert and Djokic provide a compelling entry into the rich harmonic and melodic world of two favourite composers, with the cello adding that dash of humanity in its alternately rhapsodic and plaintive voice.<\/p>\n<p>The album is rounded out by the 14th of Rachmaninov&#8217;s Op. 34 <em>Vocalises<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the details as well as audio samples <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atmaclassique.com\/en\/albums\/albuminfo.aspx?albumid=1487\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talented Candian cellist Denise Djokic and pianist David Jalbert have recorded two irresistibly expressive cello sonatas &#8212; by Sergei Rachmaninov and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin &#8212; for the ATMA Classique label. The interpretations are notable for their intense control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,10,77,36,47,51,52],"tags":[6451,206,401,694,748,969,4003,6468,2750,6471,3060],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/cello.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3WH","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15175,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15171\/revisions\/15175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15171"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}