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Release Date: Monday 25 September 2006
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"A COMPILATION of favourite tunes for the cello is almost guaranteed to be moody and relaxing. And sure enough, its woody tones - in the hands of Christian Benda, Ludovic Kanta, Vytautus Sondeckis, Maria Kliegel and Alexander Rubin - draw a melancholy veil over gorgeous slow movements from concertos by Haydn and Stamitz, Elgar and Dvorak, and arrangements of popular classics such as Rubinstein's famous Melodie and Rachmaninov's Vocalise. Things go upbeat for a moment in Rimsky Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble-Bee, but other than that, it's a clear case of soothing the senses."
- Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman, January 28, 2002
Carl Stamitz
Cello Concerto No. 1 in G major: Romance
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major: Adagio
Sergei Rachmaninov
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (arr. for cello and orchestra)
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Melodie for cello & orchestra, Op 42, No. 3
Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. 19, No. 4
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11: Andante cantabile
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumble-Bee
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85: Adagio
Max Bruch
Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
and much more