Schnittke: Improvisation for solo cello

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Dramatic Games

Dramatic Games


Dutilleux:

Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher

Penderecki:

Per Slava

Raskatov:

Dramatic games (quasi una sonata)

Saariaho:

Spins and spells

Schnittke:

Improvisation for solo cello

Shchedrin:

Russian Fragments

Stroppa:

Ay, there's the rub


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Boris Andrianov: Alone

Boris Andrianov: Alone


Casals:

El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the birds)

Kodály:

Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8

Schnittke:

Improvisation for solo cello

Shchedrin:

Russian Fragments

Sollima:

Alone

Lame


Boris Andrianov (cello)

A wonderful collection of solo cello works from the award winning Russian cellist Boris Andrianov, featuring the sublime Pablo Casals composition Song of the Birds. Boris Andrianov was awarded a Gramophone Editor’s Choice for his previous Quartz release – Shostakovich and Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas (QTZ2053)

“It takes remarkable powers of concentration for a performer to sustain nearly an hour of solo cello music without any support from an accompanying instrument. In this formidable sequence of works the young Russian cellist Boris Andrianov does that triumphantly...The well-known folk-based Song of the Birds by Pablo Casals...brings a performance notably purer than those of Casals himself, at least in his last years. It makes an intensely beautiful close” Gramophone Magazine, December 2011

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Schnittke - Epilogue (Music for Cello and Piano)

Schnittke - Epilogue (Music for Cello and Piano)


Schnittke:

Cello Sonata No. 1

Improvisation for solo cello

Musica nostalgica

Epilogue from the ballet Peer Gynt, for cello, piano and tape

Cello Sonata No. 2


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Celebrating Slava! In remembrance of Mstislav Rostropovich

Celebrating Slava! In remembrance of Mstislav Rostropovich

Live Recordings from Cello Festival Kronberg 2007


Bernstein:

Meditations (3) from 'Mass'

(dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Gary Hoffman (cello)

Kremerata Baltica, David Geringas

Britten:

Suite No. 2 for cello solo, Op. 80

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Miklós Perényi (cello)

Sonata for cello and piano in C major, Op. 65

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Natalia Gutman (cello) & Viacheslav Poprugin (piano)

Debussy:

Nocturne et Scherzo

(premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Gary Hoffman (cello) & David Selig (piano)

Dutilleux:

Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

László Fenyö (cello)

Henze:

Trauerode für Margret Geddes for cello sextet

(premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich and Cellissimo in 1997)

Cellissimo

Kalsons:

Aluzija for two solo celli, cello ensemble, harp and percussion

(dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich)

Lucianne Brady (harp), Andrei Pushkarev (percussion), Monika Leskovar (cello) & Giovanni Sollima (cello)

Cellissimo, David Geringas

Kancheli:

Nach dem Weinen for solo cello

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Julius Berger (cello)

With a Smile for Slava

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Mischa Maisky (cello) & Pavel Gililov (piano)

Silent Prayer

World Premiere (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich on his 80th birthday and to Gidon Kremer on his 60th birthday)

Gidon Kremer (violin) & Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello)

Kremerata Baltica

Lutoslawski:

Sacher Variation

(premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Miaskovsky:

Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Natalia Gutman (cello) & Viacheslav Poprugin (piano)

Piazzólla:

Le Grand Tango

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Young Chang Cho (cello) & Pavel Gililov (piano)

Prokofiev:

Valse from Cinderella

(arranged for violoncello and piano by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Lynn Harrell (cello) & Pavel Gililov (piano)

The Love for Three Oranges: March

(arranged for violoncello and piano by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Lynn Harrell (cello) & Pavel Gililov (piano)

Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119

(premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Andreas Brantelid (cello) & Pavel Gililov (piano)

Cello Concertino in G minor, Op. 132 (2nd Movement)

(arranged for cello sextet and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich and Cellissimo in 1999)

Cellissimo

Rostropovich:

Humoresque, Op. 5

Gabriel Schwabe (cello) & Pavel Gililov (piano)

Etude for solo cello

Young-Chang Cho (cello)

Schnittke:

Improvisation for solo cello

(dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, work commissioned for the Rostropovich Cello Competition, Paris)

Eun-Sun Hong (cello)

Minuet for String Trio

(premiered by Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Mstislav Rostropovich)

Gidon Kremer (violin), Ula Ulijona Zebriunaite (viola) & David Geringas (cello)

Musica nostalgica

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Arto Noras (cello) & Ralf Gothóni (piano)

Epilogue from the ballet Peer Gynt, for cello, piano and tape

(arranged by Alfred Schnittke for piano, cello and tape-recorder, dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

David Geringas (cello) & Jascha Nemtsov (piano)

Shaporin:

The Russian Song and Scherzo

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Andreas Brantelid (cello) & Pavel Gililov, (piano)

Shchedrin:

Slava! Slava! Ein festliches Glockengeläut

(dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich on his 70th birthday)

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Neeme Järvi

Na pososhok... (One for the road...)

World Premiere (in remembrance of Slava, for six violoncelli and treble recorder)

Sabine Ambos (recorder)

Cellissimo

Walton:

Passacaglia for solo cello

(dedicated to and premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich)

Sebastian Hess (cello)


Mstislav Rostropovich’s life as a musician was one of incredible creative power. Profil are delighted to present 27 works on four CDs – all of them inspired by the artist and human being Mstislav Rostropovich; either once dedicated to him or premiered by him. They have been recorded on these four CDs as a lasting homage to the maestro.

The live recordings are taken from the eighth Kronberg Cello Festival “in remembrance – celebrating Slava” in 2007, where friends, former students and companions of Mstislav Rostropovich gathered to honour his memory and celebrate a unique artist.

"Cellist, pianist, conductor and communicator par excellence, Mstislav (‘Slava’) Rostropovich remains a powerful presence on the international music scene." Gramophone

“These recordings were all captured live at the Kronberg Cello Festival in 2007, the year of Mstislav Rostropovich's death, and the pieces were either written for him, premiered by him or… composed in his memory. The line-up includes some very distinguished names, and even the less familiar throw themselves into the celebration with commitment and fervour.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 ****

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