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Remembered today principally as one of the greatest of all nineteenth-century piano virtuosos, Rubinstein was also a celebrated composer in his day. His two cello sonatas are recorded here by Czech cellist Jirí Bárta and Romantic music specialist Hamish Milne on a thoroughly enjoyable new disc. The first sonata is a fairly substantial work that not surprisingly requires a pianist of heroic stature as well as a first-rate cellist. The second sonata is a larger, more ambitious work with a true scherzo and slow movement as well as sonata-form first movement and finale.