Performance

Cello Sonata

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Debussy’s *Cello Sonata* (1915) is a three-movement chamber work for cello and piano—Prologue, Sérénade, Finale—written in his late style, with clipped gestures and sudden shifts of mood. It entered public life during wartime Europe, reaching Paris in 1917 with Debussy at the piano; a specific NYC premiere history is not firmly established in standard accounts, but the piece quickly became central to 20th‑century recital programming, including in New York. Its lean structure leaves little room for sentiment, which is part of its authority. At Groupmuse NYC, it sits in dialogue with sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Myaskovsky in a rock/pop-billed program.