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Daniel Hope, violin, Philip Dukes, viola, Paul Watkins, cello
Music from Theresienstadt - Klein, Schulhoff, Krasa [ Nimbus / CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine Oct 2003 |
J.S. BACH
Sonatas for 2 flutes and continuo Hansgeorg Schmeiser & Jan OstrA½ (flutes) Ingomar Rainer (harpsichord) Othmar MAller (cello) [ Nimbus Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] The demand for and purpose of chamber music at the time of Bach, Handel and Telemann was in no way what we now expect in our bourgeois age. This music was not intended primarily for listeners and certainly not for public concerts. Baroque chamber... |
TIPPETT
Triple Concerto / Piano Concerto Martino Tirimo (piano) Ernst Kovacic (violin) Gerard Caussa (viola) Alexander Baillie (cello) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Michael Tippett, cond [ Nimbus / CD - released 25/Oct/2003 ] Recorded at Studio 7, BBC Broadcasting House, Manchester, Triple Concerto - 7th July 1990, Piano Concerto - 17th May 1991 |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Complete works for cello Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (conductor) with John York (piano) [ Nimbus / 2 CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] Shostakovich composed both his Cello Concertos for Mstislav Rostropovich, whose artistry he greatly admired, and they are among his most personal works. Their critical reception was however very different - the bravura First Concerto was almost... |
JOHN METCALF
Metcalf, John - Mapping Wales, Plain Chants, Cello Symphony Raphael Wallfisch, cello, Catrin Finch, harp, Cardiff Ardwyn Singers, Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus, Raicho Christov, conductor [ Nimbus / CD - released 20/Jul/2005 ] These are all World Premiere recordings made under the supervision of the composer. |
ZEMLINSKY
Cello Sonata (with works by Goldmark & Korngold) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / John York (piano) [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] The compositions on this disc not only present a wide range of recipes for effective and enjoyable chamber music, they also serve as a study in ethics. Is music for culinary delight or spiritual elevation, food for the body or the soul, stuff for the... |
BRIDGE / ELGAR
Oration / Cello Concerto (with Holst's Invocation) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Dickins (conductor) [ Nimbus / CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] These three notable British works for cello and orchestra from the early 20th century - two of them, the Elgar and the Bridge, ranking among the finest for the medium ever written by British composers - are linked by various strands, both... |
ELIZABETH MACONCHY / PAUL PATTERSON / PAUL HINDEMITH / MARK KOPYTMAN / etc
20th Century Works for Cello & Strings Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim / William Boughton, conductor [ Nimbus / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Of all the string instruments, the cello seems to come nearest to possessing a soul, partly because of its great range, from the deep nobility of its lowest baritone to bass register, to the plangent eloquence of its high soprano one. Of all the... |