Tharice Virtuosi: Live at Zentrum Paul Klee Bern
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Label: Claves
Cat No: CD300506
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 1st January 2019
Contents
Works
Cantata BWV156 'Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe'Octet in E flat major, op.20
La Campanella
Mose-Fantasia
Dance of the Elves, op.39
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Zigeunerweisen, op.20
Bagatella (arr. Ion Dobrinescu)
Swan Lake, op.20
Artists
Tharice VirtuosiWorks
Cantata BWV156 'Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe'Octet in E flat major, op.20
La Campanella
Mose-Fantasia
Dance of the Elves, op.39
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Zigeunerweisen, op.20
Bagatella (arr. Ion Dobrinescu)
Swan Lake, op.20
Artists
Tharice VirtuosiAbout
The earliest piece recorded here, Bach’s “Arioso”, is an ideal place to start our consideration of this meat-and-lollipops programme. Bach used it as both the Sinfonia to his Cantata No. 156 and the slow movement of his Concerto BWV 1056, but these were apparently arrangements of an earlier piece, since lost. So it’s fitting that this piece should have long achieved complete independence, with every new generation making its own arrangements – such as the version for violin solo and strings on this CD.
The “meat” in our present dish is Mendelssohn’s Octet for strings, opus 20. Composed in 1825 when he was just sixteen, it arguably surpasses the achievement of any other musical prodigy, from Wolfgang Mozart to Erich Wolfgang Korngold. But even on its own terms it is one of the pinnacles of Romantic chamber music. Mendelssohn combines formal perfection with an unerring sense of drama (witness the astonishing ascent to the tonic at the end of the exposition of the first movement, about four minutes in). The slow movement is a magnificent hybrid of the angelic and the passionate, the scherzo is his first real essay in the “fairy music” for which he became famous, and the last movement is a perpetuum mobile by a master contrapuntist with a technique far beyond his years.
Tharice Virtuosi:
- Liviu Prunaru (violin)
- Valentina Svyatlovskaya (violin)
- Bogdan Zvoristeanu (violin)
- Oleg Kaskiv (violin)
- Edgar Pujol (violin)
- Vlad Stanculeasa (violin)
- Sophia Reuter (viola)
- Ettore Causa (viola)
- Stanimir Todorov (cello)
- Pablo de Naverán (cello)
- Daniel Mitnitsky (cello)
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