Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, and Anna Kislitsyna, piano
will perform my cello sonata
Imagined/Remembered
brought to you by Parma Recordings
This piece appears on my 2015 album
Time, Still
on the Navona label
From American Record Guide
(July-August 2015)
Mark Lehman
Best, and most substantial, is Babcock’s
three-movement, 18-minute cello sonata (subtitled Imagined/Remembered). The
first movement pits long, singing cello lines against happily scampering piano
figures, later reversing roles as the cello scampers and the piano sings. The
second is a slow, measured elegy and shows Babcock at his darkest and most
searching, the cello’s troubled ruminations punctuated by the piano’s slowly
treading low notes and arch-like arpeggios.
