There's a lot to be said for this album as an actual pedagogical device -- buy one for the young cellist in your life. In a world where the musical tuition of young people is too often standardized and dull, this disc has a touch of the eccentric, of the personal, of the kind of music teacher you tell stories about years after the fact. It offers ...
On her 2005 album for Endeavour Classics, cellist Denise Djokic explores currents of folk songs in works by composers as diverse as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Schumann, Leos Janácek, and Gaspar Cassadň. The unifying plan is apparent in her choice of Vaughan Williams' pastorally flavored Six Studies in English Folk Song (1926), Schumann's ...
Trio Kairos' 2004 debut on Musicaphon is a rewarding survey of piano trios composed in the 1920s by a handful of important composers on the brink of discovering their true voices. Much of this early modernist music exhibits the mordant wit, ironic tone, and staunch anti-Romanticism of the postwar generation, yet also displays feelings of ...
Unless you are a hard-core atonalist like Jean Barraqué or Sylvano Bussotti, the mere mention of the combination of cello and harp means only one thing: a dreamy, diaphanous landscape of sweet, angelic sounds. For those who are perhaps not so hardcore, but musically serious-minded, it can also mean something else: salon music. Marquis Classics' ...
By the time this disc was released in late 2007, German cellist Maria Kliegel had recorded most of the standard cello repertoire. This disc fills out her discography with some of the standard repertoire's more extravagant chamber works, or, as the disc's title describes them: "Virtuoso Cello Showpieces." Kliegel had already proved herself a ...
This disc by the young Israeli-American cellist Gavriel Lipkind and Russian-born pianist (and elsewhere singer) Alexandra Lubchansky isn't quite an original -- in the 1950s it would have been called an album of encores. Lipkind offers 23 short pieces, some exotic in flavor, some humorous virtuoso showpieces (like Ibert's The White Little Donkey, ...
Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga here comes up with an unusual angle on the contemporary attempt to make the instrumental a personal statement rather than a mere demonstration of mastery: he plays a program of encores. Of course, many famed instrumental performers have released albums of encores, but there's never been one like this before. Demenga ...
A disc of Spanish music from Russian performers living in Montreal is really no surprise; more than any other European national school, Spain's was a collaborative effort between homegrown composers and those who envied Iberia's warm climate and diverse folk traditions from afar. Violonchelo Espańol, in fact, includes music by Russian composers ...
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