Grieg, Janacek & Kodaly: Cello Sonatas

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he maintains a ferociously individual voice...But it is in the Kodaly that Ishizaka seems most at home...this dazzling recital can leave the listener in no doubt of the specialness of Ishizaka's... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

Release Date: 5th May 2014
Catalogue No: ONYX4120
Label: Onyx
Length: 75 minutes

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Janáček: Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano

Work length13:07

Danjulo Ishizaka, Shai Wosner

I. Con moto - Andante

Track length5:30

II. Con moto - Adagio

Track length4:39

III. Allegro

Track length2:58

Kodály: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8

Work length33:38

Danjulo Ishizaka

I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato

Track length9:06

II. Adagio (con grand'espressione)

Track length12:47

III. Allegro molto vivace

Track length11:45

Janáček: Presto

Work length2:32

Danjulo Ishizaka, Shai Wosner

Grieg: Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36

Work length26:01

Danjulo Ishizaka, Shai Wosner

I. Allegro agitato

Track length8:49

II. Andante molto tranquillo

Track length6:23

III. Allegro - Allegro molto e marcato

Track length10:49

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Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, a former BBC Radio3 New Generation Artist, is now in demand with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. He made his Vienna Musikverein debut in 2003; his BBC Proms debut in 2006. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2012 he was awarded the Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award, one of Japan’s most prestigious music awards Danjulo and fellow ONYX artist Shai Wosner have chosen a programme of works with strong roots in folk music which speak their characteristic national language very clearly. Together with Bartók, Kodály was a true pioneer in exploring and collecting melodies from the Hungarian folk tradition. Leoš Janácek’s 'Pohádka', on the other hand, turns beyond the folk tradition to another aspect that all cultures have in common: the fairy tale. Like his Hungarian counterparts, he too collected many of his country’s folk songs, observing and studying his compatriots’ language with a view to how it functioned in a melodic sense. He had a keen sensibility for the sounds of nature, and incorporated all these elements into his music. Grieg’s great Sonata combines folkloric and magical elements in equal measure and paints a sonic picture of Norwegian culture.

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Awards Issue 2014

he maintains a ferociously individual voice...But it is in the Kodaly that Ishizaka seems most at home...this dazzling recital can leave the listener in no doubt of the specialness of Ishizaka's playing.

November 2014

This recital is well worth serious attention … connoisseurs of fine cello playing should certainly try to hear this disc: Ishizaka is a wonderful musician.

October 2014

Danjulo Ishizaka and Shai Wosner are mesmerisingly brilliant in this superbly recorded and imaginatively programmed recital.

Grieg, Janacek & Kodaly: Cello Sonatas

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