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48 Strings Music for One, Two, Four and Twelve Cellos PIATTI • POPPER • FITZENHAGEN • KLENGEL Andreas Brantelid, Ingemar Brantelid and friends, Cellos
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The four cellist-composers in this recital share a common background: from musical families they played as soloists in outstanding orchestras, taught many students, and wrote music for the instrument that continues to challenge players of our own time with its virtuosity and intensity. In his 12 Caprices , Alfredo Piatti fused dazzling technical demands with operatic drama, whilst David Popper’s Suite remains an admired piece for two cellists. Wilhelm Fitzenhagen’s Concert Waltzes for four cellos makes prolonged use of the upper register, and in contrast Julius Klengel’s Hymnus is a sonorously beautiful elegy for twelve cellists.
DIGITAL BONUS TRACK Julius KLENGEL (1859–1933) Hymnus for Twelve Cellos, Op. 57 Andreas Brantelid, Ingemar Brantelid and friends, Cellos
ALSO AVAILABLE VISUAL ALBUM ON APPLE MUSIC Alfredo PIATTI (1822–1901)
12 Caprices, Op. 25 Andreas Brantelid, Cello
8.574301 Release Date: 10 Jun 2022
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Jean-Marie LECLAIR (1697–1764) Violin Sonatas, Book 3 Op. 5, Nos. 9–12 Adrian Butterfield, Violin • Sarah McMahon, Cello Silas Wollston, Harpsichord • Clare Salaman, Hurdy-gurdy
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Jean-Marie Leclair was a master of fusing Italian and French idioms, conjoining the lyricism of the former with the dance momentum of the latter. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in his third book of violin sonatas. The sonatas in this album embody rich melodic beauty, drone and rustic elements – most vividly in the Tambourin of the C major sonata in which a hurdy-gurdy is employed – and demand tour de force virtuosity such as in the joyous Ciaccona of the G major sonata. Described by Gramophone as ‘technically and musically a marvel’ (Naxos 8.572866), Adrian Butterfield completes his acclaimed traversal of Leclair’s Violin Sonatas Books Nos. 1–3.
Click to listen to Violin Sonata in E major, Op. 5, No. 9: II. Allegro
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8.574381 Release Date: 10 Jun 2022
Companion Titles – Jean-Marie Leclair Violin Sonatas series 8.570888 | 8.570889 | 8.570890 | 8.572866 | 8.572867 | 8.574341 | 8.574351
Gioachino ROSSINI (1792–1868) La scala di seta (‘The Silken Ladder’) Farsa comica in one act Libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa Sung in Italian Various Artists
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Gioachino Rossini was only 20 when he was commissioned to compose La scala di seta . It is one of four farsa comica operas which fed popular demand for this genre in Venice in the early 19th century and was wildly successful with its original audiences. Assisted by the silken ladder of the title, the diverting romantic intrigues of the narrative revolve around secretive assignations and obtuse misunderstandings, by no means helped by the presence of the slow-witted manservant Germano, in one of Rossini’s most successful comedies. Click to listen to Sinfonia LISTEN
8.660512-13 [2 Discs] Release Date: 10 Jun 2022
Companion Titles – Rossini in Wildbad 2.110696 (NBD0133V) | 8.660492-94 | 8.660448-50 | 8.660419-21 Sergey Ivanovich TANEYEV (1856–1915) String Trio, Op. 31 • Piano Quartet, Op. 20 Spectrum Concerts Berlin – Boris Brovtsyn, Violin • Gareth Lubbe, Viola Alexey Stadler, Cello • Eldar Nebolsin, Piano
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Taneyev was a pupil of Tchaikovsky and a teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin. During his lifetime his chamber music was widely considered on a par with that of the great Viennese masters. The String Trio in E flat major , originally scored for violin, viola and the rarely-heard tenor viola, is a mature work with echoes of Mozart and Beethoven. The Piano Quartet in E major is a large-scale, passionate work, sonorous and melodic, with a transfiguring beauty. It has always retained an honoured place in the Russian chamber repertoire.
Click to listen to String Trio in E flat major, Op. 31: I. Allegro con brio
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Companion Titles – Spectrum Concerts Berlin 8.573317 | 8.573525 | 8.574008 | 8.574019
8.574367 Release Date: 24 Jun 2022
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