British Cello Concertos
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JOHN JOUBERT / ROBERT SIMPSON / CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT
British Cello Concertos
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, William Boughton
[ Lyrita / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 1 July 2015
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Among the most versatile of contemporary performers, cellist Raphael Wallfisch is especially celebrated as a passionate advocate of British music.
Concertos by Elgar, Finzi and Walton lie at the heart of his repertoire, which also includes concertante works by Arnold, Bax, Bliss, Havergal Brian, Britten, Alan Bush, Geoffrey Bush, William Busch, Delius, Dyson, Foulds, Holbrooke, Ireland, Maw, Moeran, Andrjez Panufnik, Rawsthorne, Rubbra, Lionel Sainsbury and Hugh Wood. He has expanded this genre by commissioning and premiering an impressive and eclectic array of new pieces by, among others, Richard Rodney Bennett, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, Robert Saxton, Giles Swayne, John Tavener and Adrian Williams. All three items presented on this disc were written especially for Wallfisch.
"[Wallfisch's] characteristically assured and deeply felt advocacy is matched by a lively and committed response from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales...The disc's substantial centrepiece comprises Robert Simpson's exceptionally powerful 1991 concerto...the sublimely organic, typically questing and effortlessly inevitable way that Simpson handles his nourishing material makes for riveting listening." (Gramophone)
"[Wallfisch] performs these pieces with the utmost musicianship." (MusicWeb)
Tracks:
Joubert:
Concerto in Two Movements for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 171
Simpson, R:
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Wright, C:
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
