InfoDad.com: Family Focused Reviews has published a wonderful feature on Arnon Erez and Emanuel Gruber’s release Mendelssohn: Complete Music for Cello and Piano:
“Emanuel Gruber and Arnon Erez fit their instruments seamlessly together in these works and the others on the CD: the men play with great appeal and so sure a sense of camaraderie that they seem to have an intuitive connection. There is no awkwardness at all in any of the phrasing, tempo changes or interpretative elements – everything flows smoothly and naturally, with the result that the music’s uplifting and outgoing character comes through clearly from start to finish. When there is profundity, or at least sadness or a touch of melancholy – and there is some in these works, if not much – Gruber and Erez bring it forth effectively as well, not dwelling or swooning but expressing the darker emotions and then moving on. Mendelssohn wrote all his cello-and-piano pieces for specific cellists whom he knew; they are therefore, in a sense, occasional works. But thanks to the warmth and elegance of Gruber’s and Erez’s playing, they become something more: glowing examples of music that, if not very well known in Mendelssohn’s oeuvre, deserves to be heard more frequently and to hold a higher place among his compositions.” — InfoDad.com
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