HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & OTHERS
TÁR Cate Blanchett (piano), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello, vocals), Sophie Kauer (cello) / Dresdner Philharmonia, London Contemporary Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 9/Dec/2022 ] "More a concept album than a traditional musical facsimile of the film, the result is both creative and curious. Hildur Guðnadóttir's music lives within and without the film, and it rubs shoulders with snippets of Elgar and Mahler." BBC Music |
GORDON SHI-WEN CHIN
Chin: Double Concerto / Formosa Seasons Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Felix Fan (cello) / Kansas City Symphony Orchestra / Michael Stern [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "Formosa Seasons" is based on a series of Haiku-like poems, and is dedicated to the celebrated Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bernstein conducts Bernstein - Symphony No 1 'Jeremiah' / On the Waterfront / etc Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (Conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon Leonard Bernstein Edition / CD - released 1/Feb/1982 ] Recorded in Tel Aviv. October 1978 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.) - Don Quixote, Op. 35 / Cello Sonata / etc Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, with Herbert Schuch (piano) [ ORFEO / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] During his long and exceptionally fruitful creative life, Richard Strauss (18641949) composed only a few works for the cello. Only three have survived and small as that number may seem, those cello works are critical to the composers development.... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 (with Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante) Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) / WDR Köln, Jukka-Pekka Saraste [ Orfeo / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] "These two 'symphony' concertos are hellishly demanding and Daniel Müller-Schott is more than equal to the task...A protege of Rostropovich, he's also well qualified to plumb their expressive depths." BBC Music |
BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Goldschmidt: Orchestral Works [Incls Cello Concerto] David Geringas (cello) / Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mathias Husmann [ CPO / CD - released 7/Mar/1995 ] Recorded: 12-14 September 1994 Recording Venue: Theater am Jerichower Platz, Mgdeburg, Germany |
ANTONIN DVOARK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Symphonic Variations Natalia Gutman (cello) / The Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Swallisch [ EMI Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Recorded At - Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, February 1991 |
EDWARD ELGAR / ANTONIN DVOARK
Elgar/Dvorak: Cello Concertos Maria Kliegel (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Halasz [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Her playing has great virtuosity, but it is her phrasing especially in the Elgar, which suggests a great musical intelligence" - Classic CD |
FERDE GROFE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite / Mississippi Suite (with Victor Herbert: Cello Concerto) Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson, with Georges Miquelle (cello) [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1995 ] Recorded 1957 - 1958 The original Three Track original recording |
INGVAR LIDHOLM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lidholm: Greetings from an Old World / Toccata e Canto / Kontakion / Ritornell Elemer Lavotha (cello) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] Recording made in 1991, 1992 & 1993 |
ENNIO MORICONE
The Essential Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone & His Orchestra, with Dulce Pontes (vocals), Michele Chiapperino (cello), Hayley Westenra, Fausto Anzelmo (viola), etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2014 ] Ennio Morricone OMR was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works. |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos 2, 4 & 8 Eric Kim (cello) / Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 17/Jan/2008 ] Heitor Villa-Lobos' nine Bachinas Brasileiras which combine the melodic and rhythmic characteristics of Brazilian music with the contrapuntal texture and expansive forms of Johann Sebastian Bach, were written for various combinations of instruments. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Triple Concerto Op 56 / Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello Op 11 Eroica Trio / Prague Chamber Orchestra [ EMI Music / CD - released 4/Nov/2003 ] The Beethoven Triple Concerto has long been a long time staple of the Eroica Trio's repertoire and as an ensemble they have played the work more than any other group in history. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos Gautier Capuçon (cello) / Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2015 ] "[there is] much to admire here, particularly in the way both soloist and orchestra ratchet up the emotional temperature throughout the course of the second movement [of the Second Concerto]" BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Cello Concerto & Chamber Works Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Capuçon's impetuosity and thoughtfulness are complemented by Haitink's lifelong engagement with this music...Each of the [chamber] works is played with collective grace and elan by these crème de la crème chamber musicians." Sunday Times |
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Stanford: Complete Works for Cello and Orchestra Gemma Rosefield (cello) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Manze [ Hyperion Romantic Cello Concerto Vol 3 / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] "While there are rival recordings of the Concerto and Rhapsody, I can't imagine they're as sympathetically or as engagingly played as by the present musicians; whose hearts, I'm sure Stanford himself would agree, are in the right place." (AudAud.com) |
ANTONIN DVOARK / WILLIAM WALTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dvorak/Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos (with Bruch: Kol nidrei) Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy [ Sony Masterworks Heritage / CD - released 6/Dec/1997 ] Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro in Ukraine) into a Jewish family. As a child, he was taught violin and piano by his father. After seeing and hearing the cello, he was determined to become a cellist and was given his first... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Orchestral Works [Incls 'Suite algerienne'] Guillermo Pastrana (cello) / Basque National Orchestra, Jun Märkl [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Mar/2017 ] "Guillermo Pastrana performs the cello solos with fine musicianship and Jun Märkl conducts with taste, avoiding any sort of bombast. The Basque National Orchestra plays beautifully for him and the sound is of a high calibre." MusicWeb |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Falstaff / Cello Concerto / Romance for Bassoon / Smoking Cantata Halle Orchestra / Mark Elder / Graham Salvage with Heinrich Schiff (cello) & Andrew Shore (bassoon) [ Halle / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "The playing is glorious, and the recording does it full justice; what what really makes this Falstaff outstanding is Mark Elder's engagement with the musical storyline. A pleasant performance of the Romance is followed by a truly remarkable... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante / Cello Sonata Han-Na Chang (cello) / London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] "The Korean, Han-Na Chang, joins Antonio Pappano for a superb recording." Editor's Choice: Gramophone Magazine (May 2003)- GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2003 - Concerto |