Performance

Cello Sonata

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Debussy’s *Cello Sonata* (1915) is a late, three-movement work for cello and piano, moving from a spare Prologue to an off-kilter Sérénade and a compressed Finale. It arrived as Europe was in crisis, and its clipped forms and sharp contrasts feel like a deliberate break from late‑Romantic sprawl. First introduced to audiences in London and Geneva before its Paris unveiling with the composer at the piano, it later entered New York programs as a marker of early modern chamber style. At Groupmuse NYC, it sits in dialogue with sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Myaskovsky.