Barbirolli conducts Dvorak, Weber & Rossini
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Label: Barbirolli Society
Cat No: SJB1088
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 16th February 2018
Contents
Artists
Paul Tortelier (cello)Rayson Whalley (piano)
Halle Orchestra
Conductor
John BarbirolliWorks
Cello Concerto in B minor, op.104Konzertstuck in F minor, op.79 J282
Artists
Paul Tortelier (cello)Rayson Whalley (piano)
Halle Orchestra
Conductor
John BarbirolliAbout
On this release under his baton we can hear for ourselves Barbirolli’s innate empathy with his soloists – and whilst, in view of our opening remarks, it may be felt the Dvořák Concerto might exhibit that empathy to a greater degree than Carl Maria von Weber’s Konzertstück for piano and orchestra, there are other factors which – in this particular instance – demonstrate Barbirolli’s genius in orchestral accompaniment.
The soloist in the Weber, from the 1958 Proms, is Rayson Whalley, who was a fine musician, someone who – as with other orchestras – would play a solo concerto part at rehearsal if the engaged soloist was absent, and would take the piano part in those scores which called for a piano in the orchestra. Such musicians were sometimes referred to as the ‘house pianist’, but any assumption that in Whalley’s case he was in anyway less than top-notch is soon disabused on hearing such a fine account of a (nowadays) unjustly neglected masterpiece.
Although many music-lovers will be familiar with the Dvořák concerto, this particular performance – caught in an off-air BBC television recording from 1963 – not only has the compelling recreative totality of a ‘live’ performance, but also exhibits a number of interpretative characteristics which reveal a strongly expressive yet classical account of natural distinction, with Tortelier’s superb technique combined with Barbirolli’s unfailing sense of the music’s structure, and with much of the quality of the soloist’s playing obviously communicating itself, through Barbirolli’s direction, to the orchestra.
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