Korngold, E W - Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto - Bamert, Matthias (conductor)

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Toimitusaika: Noin 7 - 14 arkipäivää

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THREE STARS IN PENGUIN GUIDE

This disc offers four exceptional works, from several of Korngold’s periods, including the Cello Concerto, an adaptation of a short piece Korngold composed in 1946 for the film Deception and here performed by Peter Dixon. Dixon plays with elegance and a lyric understatement needed for this work. The Cello Concerto is joined with Concerto in C sharp for left hand which is an altogether different work. Composed like Ravel’s concerto, it is an extraordinarily imaginative and resourceful work -ambitious and sometimes authentically modern. Although it springs from a post-Straussian world, it is full of individual touches. Howard Shelley gives it a radiant performance, played with panache. “The work demonstrates his virtues, chief among which was the ability to both evoke and express feelings”, wrote American Record Guide. Coupling these two exigent works is the Symphonic Serenade for Strings - a very beautiful work with a highly inventive Scherzo and an eloquent, rather Mahlerian slow movement.
Howard Shelley, piano
Peter Dixon, cello
BBC Philharmonic/Matthias Bamert
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Military March

Cello Concerto, Op 37

Symphonic Serenade for string orchestra, Op 39

Piano Concerto in C sharp (for left hand), Op 17