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ID: CC1013 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Subcollection: Cello Cd Includes:
Film of Dvorak Rondo Op.94,D. Popper -Spinning Song, Theodore Saidenberg, piano. Hollywood, California1939, (PC and MAC compatible)
Program and biographical notes (16 p. : ill., port.) inserted in container.
Participant:
Emanuel Feuermann or Steven Isserlis (playing missing bars 550-557 in 4th work), violoncello ; Franz Rupp (1st, 3rd), Arpad Sandor (2nd), or Theodore Saidenberg (film), piano ;
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Arthur [i.e. Alexander] Smallens, conductor (4th). Event:Recorded Aug. and Dec. 1939, New York (1st, 3rd works), Oct. 27, 1932, Berlin (2nd), and Aug. 16, 1939, Lewisohn Stadium, New York (Saint-Saëns and Bach Suite). Section of Saint-Saëns performed by Steven Isserlis recorded in 2004. Film recorded 1939, Hollywood, Calif.
As many Feuermann enthusiasts will know, this dazzling live performance from 1939 has remained unheard by the public due largely to the fact that the original suffers from a 20 second break in the recorded sound during the last movement. Now with the expertise of Steven Isserlis (who plays the 'de Munck' Stradivarius used by Feurmann) and some engineering wizardry, Cello Classics has been able to 'fill' the gap so that the performance can be enjoyed uninterrupted. This was achieved by a very small (5 seconds) insert of new recorded material and the re-use of an existing section to cover the rest of the missing music. Of course it is an outrageous thing to do, to tamper with an original performance of such stature! How can one justify this? Well, it is possible, by omitting the inserted material, to listen to the original performance in its unedited state, if the listener so wishes. A great deal of care was taken to ensure that the spirit of the original is preserved as much as possible. Of course any keen eared listener will detect the work done, but the object was to allow a complete hearing of the work and it is felt that this has been achieved.
The other major attraction on this new Enhanced CD is the very rare film that was made also in 1939. As the only footage of its kind we can at last watch the great cellist perform two of his popular show pieces, Dvorak's Rondo and Popper's Spinning Song, and marvel at the spectacular bowing technique and Feuermann's phenomenal command of the instrument. The film can be viewed by placing the CD into a PC or Mac computer.
The rest of the CD is given to other short rarities - previously unheard takes of works by Bach and Fauré plus the Popper Papillon that was never released in Feuermann's lifetime. |
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ID: CC1014 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Piano and Cello Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata - written "in the style of a concerto" - has long been considered one of the great challenges in the chamber music repertoire. Here a recently discovered transcription by the composer's pupil and friend Carl Czerny receives its world premiere recording by the distinguished partnership of Raphael Wallfisch and John York.
Coupled with Beethoven's own transcription of his Horn Sonata and the rarely heard 'Eyeglass' Duet with Yuko Inoue, this Cd fulfils Cello Classics' remit to bring rare and neglected repertoire to the world stage. |
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ID: CC1016 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Cello |
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ID: CC1023 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Cello In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Sebastian Comberti plays the two popular concertos, performed using the original chamber-sized orchestration, with the renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
In addition this Cd includes the world première recording of a beautiful recently discovered concerto by Haydn’s contemporary, Johann Zumsteeg. |
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ID: CC1022 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Subcollection: Cello The award-winning Chinese/Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin makes his first Cd for Cello Classics with a programme of late 20th C works for unaccompanied cello, and also a specially commissioned work by Ho Chee Kong. This stunning new solo disc shows the formidable Li-Wei at his very best. |
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ID: CC1009 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Piano and Cello Franck, C: Cello Sonata in A major
Lekeu: Cello Sonata in G
Ysaye: Cello Sonata Op. 28 /Rêve d'enfant, Op. 14
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) & John York (piano)
Raphael Wallfisch and John York perform sonatas by Eugene Ysaye, and two fellow Belgian composers most associated with him, Cesar Franck and Guillaume Lekeu.
Cesar Franck’s ever popular Sonata in A is given a stirring performance here by the Wallfisch/York duo in their first recording for Cello Classics. Recorded in the peace and tranquillity of Champs Hill, West Sussex this is the first recording Rahael made using the Stradivarius cello that once beolnged to his former teacher, Amaryllis Fleming. By a happy coincidence the wonderful studio in Champ’s Hill has recently aquired the painting of Amaryllis by Augustus John, which was hung behind the musicians and watched over the entire proceedings!
Less familiar, even to violinists, for whom it was written, is Guillaume Lekeu’s Sonata in G major. The composer lived to be only 24 years old, but in that short time wrote some of the most passionately lyrical music of the age. This is a work that deserves to be far better known.
The remaining works on this recording are both by Ysaye himself. The Sonata for unaccompanied cello is a real tour-de-force and seldom heard on the concert stage. The Reve d’Enfant is played here in an arrangement for cello and piano by John York. |
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ID: CC1017 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
• Brahms’ Op.34 Quintet in F Minor was originally intended by the composer as a two cello string quintet. Here in a 1946 reconstruction by Sebastian Brown we rediscover this familiar work in a completely new light.• Joseph Miroslav Weber led the Munich Opera for many years in the late nineteenth century. His prizewinning Quintet in D Major owes much to his Bohemian roots, as well as echoing Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.• Divertimenti Ensemble have previously recorded highly praised CDs of Mendelssohn’s Octet, as well as chamber works by Howell, Dyson, and Bax, for Hyperion, Meridian and Dutton. This is their first CD for Cello Classics. |
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ID: CC1008 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Cello and Symphony Orchestra Daniil Shafran ventured outside Russia rarely during his long career, but became a cult figure to his admirers. His recorded legacy is rich, as demonstrated by this compilation, chosen by the artist's devoted admirer, Steven Isserlis. Shafran's premiere recording of the 2nd Kabalevsky Concerto,of which he was the dedicatee, is coupled with a live performance of Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante, a legendary performance here issued for the first time on CD. An attractive, but rarely heard, suite of 5 Pieces written for Shafran by the Georgian composer Tsintsadze complete this collection by one of the great cellists of the 20th century
Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 77
Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante in E minor for cello & orchestra, Op. 125
Tsintsadze: Five Pieces on Folk Themes for cello and piano
Nina Musinyan (piano) / Daniil Shafran (cello) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky |
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ID: CC1006 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Some of the finest recordings ever made on the cello including several rare examples not heard before on CD |
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ID: CC1007 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Subcollection: Cello Cello Classics explores the world of ensemble works for 4 Cellos, featuring little known gems by some of those best qualified to write for the instrument - the great Cellist-Composers of the 19th Century. Offenbach was a virtuoso himself, and his Adagio and Scherzo have only recently come to light. Grützmacher, Klengel and Fitzenhagen taught at the major conservatories in Europe and have left a wealth of literature for this wonderfully sonorous line-up - a string quartet with four cellos. Performed by Cello Classics' founder, Sebastian Comberti with his cello section from the London Mozart players, Julia Desbruslais, Ben Chappell and Sarah Butcher. Contains extensive notes by Andrew Stewart.
Fitzenhagen: Konzertwalzer / Ave Maria Op. 41 / Die Spinnerin, Op. 59 No. 2
Goltermann: Deux Morceaux de Salon, Op. 53
Grützmacher: Consecration Hymn, Op. 65
Klengel: Four Pieces, Op. 33 / Two Pieces, Op. 5
Offenbach: Adagio / Scherzo
Paque: Souvenir de Curis
Sebastien Comberti, Julia Desbruslais, Ben Chappell and Sarah Butcher (all cello) |
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