Performance

Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81

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Nikolai Myaskovsky’s *Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81* belongs to a Soviet-era chamber tradition where private forms carried public pressure. Its long lines and dark lyricism keep the cello close to the speaking register, with the piano less an accompaniment than a second narrator. New York has long served as a testing ground for Russian modernism in recital halls and living rooms, and Groupmuse NYC continues that small-scale lineage in Kensington on January 11, 2026. The music’s restraint can read as its most pointed statement.