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ID: SIGCD137 (EAN: 635212013724) | 1 CD | DDD Released in: 2008
- LABEL:
- Signum Records
- Collection:
- Cello Collection
- Subcollection:
- Cello
- Composers:
- BRITTEN, Benjamin | SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry Dmitriyevich
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Interprets:
- WALTON, Jamie (cello)
- Ensembles:
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductors:
- BRIGER, Alexander
- Other info:
Jamie Walton's latest venture with the Philharmonia Orchestra, led by Alexander Briger, covers two more-contemporary Cello works; Shostakovichʼs Cello Concerto No. 2, and Britten's Symphony for Cello and Orchestra. Jamie Walton is quickly gaining international recognition for his work, being compared to Cello legends Rostropovich and Tortelier.
The Elgar society wrote about Jamie's last disc
“I really cannot praise this performance too highly. For faithfulness to the text, interpretative musicality, accuracy, ensemble and warmth and beauty of tone, Walton cannot be beaten.”
This new disc promises to be every bit as good.
| SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry Dmitriyevich (1906-1975) | | | Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 2 in G, Op. 126 | | | 1. | Largo | 14:39 | | | 2. | Allegretto | 4:32 | | | 3. | Allegretto | 15:41 | | | BRITTEN, Benjamin (1913-1976) | | | Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 | | | 4. | Allegro maestoso | 13:10 | | | 5. | Presto inquieto | 3:55 | | | 6. | Adagio | 9:43 | | | 7. | Passacaglia: Andante allegro | 7:48 | | “If you only buy one recording in 2009, it should be this one.”
Alice McVeigh - Mvdaily.com
“Walton is a superb and unflashy exponent - theres no ego here, just consummate musicianship, excellently backed by the Philharmonia under Alex Briger, sensitive and biting in the Shostakovich, formidable and powerful in the Britten.”
Sarah Urwin Jones - The Times
“A grandmaster of his instrument is coming to maturity here, and this CD, with its technically faultless recording quality, should have a place in any collection. It deserves it. ”
Pizzicato Magazine *****
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