How many mediocre German Romantic cello concertos in a row can anyone listen to? That is the inescapable question posed by the second volume in Hyperion's the Romantic Cello Concerto series. Aside from Robert Schumann, the composers here vie for who's the most obscure: Robert Volkmann, Albert Dietrich or Friedrich Gernsheim. While Gernsheim may ...
Cellist Alban Gerhardt offers a quite satisfying disc of three varied but important works from the solo cello repertoire. The overall adjective to best describe this album is "intimate." Not only are works for solo instruments intimate and revealing by nature, but the actual recorded sound provides an additional degree of closeness that is not ...
Cellist Alban Gerhardt had previously released two discs in Hyperion's Romantic Cello Concertos series: one from 2004, of Dohnányi, Enescu, and d'Albert, and one from 2007, featuring Schumann, Volkmann, Dietrich, and Gernsheim. Since the music on those discs was mediocre or worse, this coupling of Prokofiev's Cello Concerto and Symphony-Concerto ...
What could be better than a well-performed CD? How about one whose programming is equally as intelligent and insightful as the actual playing? If that thought appeals to you, then this album is one for you. Cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steve Osborne join forces for the cello sonatas of Frédéric Chopin (who is no stranger to listeners) and ...
These are possibly the best sonatas for cello and piano since Brahms and the best suites for cello solo since Bach. And they are by none other than Max Reger: the hard-working, hard-drinking Bavarian composer who saw himself as those composers' musical heir. As performed by cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Markus Becker, Reger's works for cello ...
Although a cursory glance at the front cover might give the consumer the impression of being an album of Arthur Honegger's choral music, or even a Christmas album, it is neither: Hyperion's Une Cantate de Noël is a selection of Honegger's orchestral music performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer. The chorus belonging ...
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