Sonate pour arpeggione [violoncelle] et piano en la mineur, D. 821 : I. Allegro moderato

About "Sonate pour arpeggione [violoncelle] et piano en la mineur, D. 821 : I. Allegro moderato" by Alexandre Tharaud

Schubert’s arpeggione sonata opens with a warm, conversational Allegro moderato, Tharaud and his cellist partner trading phrases like old friends. The lyricism is generous, but a gentle melancholy seeps through the major-key brightness, as if joy itself is tinged with the awareness of its own transience.