Article: RHONDA RIDER, CELLO, WITH LOIS SHAPIRO, PIANO CELLO SONATAS BY SAMUEL BARBER, ELLIOTT CARTER AND SEYMOUR SHIFRIN Centaur

Elliott Carter found his personal voice and claimed his position as one of America's master composers with the First String Quartet in 1951. But before then he had composed several worthy works that have found a place in the repertory, among them the Cello Sonata from 1948, in which several "Carteresque" phenomena appeared for the first time. The Sonata opens a remarkable new CD by cellist Rhonda Rider and pianist Lois Shapiro that is devoted to three American cello sonatas. Both Samuel Barber's familiar Sonata and Seymour Shifrin's seldom-played one were early works; Barber was 22 in 1932 when he wrote his Sonata, and Shifrin was the same age in 1948. The difference is that Barber was ...

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