Shostakovich - Cello Concertos
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Label: Audite
Cat No: AUDITE97777
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 15th January 2021
Contents
Artists
Marc Coppey (cello)Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Lawrence FosterWorks
Cello Concerto no.1 in E flat major, op.107Cello Concerto no.2 in G major, op.126
Artists
Marc Coppey (cello)Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Lawrence FosterAbout
In 1959 he wrote his First Cello Concerto, whose musical language is almost classical but which also reveals an enormous panorama of moods, gestures and “stories” for “Slava”, as Rostropovich was known amongst his friends and admirers. The scoring is transparent, featuring a single French horn as a counterpart to the solo instrument. The form of the piece is also remarkable: the third movement is an enormous cadenza, directed inwards rather than outwards and played by the cello alone. Seven years later, when the political ice age of the Brezhnev regime had been superseded by the Khrushchev thaw, Shostakovich composed his Second Cello Concerto for Rostropovich. It builds on the confessional intensity of the First, but seems gloomier in character; it is infused with threnodic tones and has a ticking clock at the end, showing that even the mighty men’s time has come.
This album of the two Shostakovich cello concertos continues audite’s successful co-operation with the Strasbourg-born cellist Marc Coppey, who approaches both works with boundless energy and without any sentimentality. The recording was made in the new Katowice concert hall: Coppey performs alongside the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lawrence Foster (live recording with additional retakes).
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