Having died at the age of 39, Chopin certainly wrote too little music in his lifetime -- especially for instruments other than the piano. Is the solution to that problem to transcribe and arrange his piano music for other instruments? As always, the answer depends on the quality of the arrangement and the conviction of the performer. In this 2007 ...
As one of the world's rising cello stars, Truls Mørk is sure to garner extravagant praise for this CD of Schumann's Concerto in A minor, Bloch's Schelomo, and Bruch's Kol Nidrei, all three essential vehicles for any cello virtuoso. However, there are two weaknesses in his playing that need addressing. First, and most noticeable, Mørk is too loose ...
Arvo Pärt's early works may not immediately appeal to fans of the meditative, tonal music he composed after 1976, but they spell out his profound conflicts with the avant-garde and the soul-searching that led to his simplified, "tintinnabular" style. Pro et Contra is a quizzical concerto for cello and orchestra in which tonal and atonal elements ...
For years, people have been listening to the wrong piece by Kurt Atterberg. Instead of the Symphony No. 6, the "Dollar Symphony" that won its composer a $10,000 prize in 1927, what people should have been listening to is this Concerto for cello and orchestra. Begun in 1917 and finally completed in 1922, the three-movement work, like most of ...
Essentially lyrical in conception and certainly lovely to listen to, Truls Mørk's 1993 recording of Dvorák's Cello Concerto with Mariss Jansons leading the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra is ultimately not entirely satisfying. The problem isn't with Mørk's playing -- he has a warm tone, a decisive attack, a terrific technique, and a gift for floating ...
Truls Mørk, you have to admit, is a very cool name for a cellist. A native of Norway, Mørk is a cellist whose tone ranges from intimate pianissimos to immense fortissimos without ever losing its essential combination of passionate lyricism and cool lucidity, a cellist whose interpretations range from blissful joy to endless despair without every ...
Following on the heels of his highly successful recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, Russian violinist Vadim Repin continues his survey of the core repertoire with this album featuring the Brahms Violin Concerto and Double Concerto. Accompanied by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, Repin' performance of Brahms is every bit as ...
Ernest and persuasive while it's spinning, the better qualities of this 2006 recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio dissipate soon after the disc stops. With pianist Yefim Bronfman, violinist Gil Shaham, and cellist Truls Mørk as partners in the proceedings, the playing itself is first-class. Each is a highly regarded virtuoso, and collectively ...
Listeners who think they know Schubert's popular Quartettsatz in C minor and String Quintet in C major should try this 2008 recording of those works by the Artemis Quartet. The driving Quartettsatz beginning the disc is justly famous for inaugurating Schubert's maturity as a chamber music composer, but the tender Andante following it here is a ...
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