Dvorak - Cello Concerto / Dohnanyi - Konzertstuck
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Label: Chandos - Classics
Cat No: CHAN10715X
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Artists
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Charles MackerrasWorks
Konzertstuck in D major for cello and orchestra, op.12Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104
Artists
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Charles MackerrasAbout
The Cello Concerto in B minor by Dvořák has become one of his most popular works, and perhaps the most popular concerto ever written for the instrument. He was asked to write this piece by a friend of Wagner, the cellist Hanuš Wihan. Initially reluctant, Dvořák stated that the cello was indeed a fine orchestral instrument but totally insufficient for a solo concerto. Fortunately, he changed his mind upon hearing Victor Herbert’s Second Cello Concerto performed in concert, in 1894. The resulting Cello Concerto is richly inventive, full of deep feeling, and perfectly fitted to the cello. Dvořák combined his experience as an orchestral player with an understanding of the cello’s distinct textural qualities to produce a grand and emotionally intense work, one of his finest achievements.
Ernst von Dohnányi was highly acclaimed as a pianist-composer, and widely regarded during his lifetime as a successor to Liszt. As a composer, however, he had more in common with Brahms than with Liszt, despite his Hungarian heritage, and his creative output was not limited to the piano. His Konzertstück in D major is in fact a full-scale cello concerto, in three interconnected parts. A lyrical rhapsody, it begins quietly, the cello emerging out of the orchestra and seeming to sing, until parting with a sense of regret at the end.
‘Raphael Wallfisch’s inspired new recording for Chandos of the Dvořák Cello Concerto is marked by deep, unexaggerated expressiveness and thrillingly taut co-ordination between soloist, conductor and the LSO… Dohnányi’s Konzertstück makes a rare and attractive fill-up.’ - Critic’s Choice, Gramophone
‘The power of Wallfisch’s attack, his ability to play even the most formidable bravura passages in tempo, is the more impressive, when he can also treat the work’s great lyrical moments with such hushed, unforced intensity.’ - The Guardian (on Dvořák’s Cello Concerto)
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