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Anja Thauer - Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Reger: Suite No. 3 / Françaix: Fantaisie (2015)

Anja Thauer - Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Reger: Suite No. 3 / Françaix: Fantaisie (2015)

BAND/ARTIST: Anja Thauer

  • Title: Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Reger: Suite No. 3 / Françaix: Fantaisie
  • Year Of Release: 2015
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 1:10:43
  • Total Size: 336 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104 - 1. Allegro (13:45)
2. Dvořák: Cello Concerto In B Minor, Op.104, B. 191 - 2. Adagio ma non troppo (10:24)
3. Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104 - 3. Finale (Allegro moderato) (11:50)
4. Reger: Suite for Cello Solo in A minor, op.131c, no.3 - 1. Präludium. Sostenuto (5:36)
5. Reger: Suite for Cello Solo in A minor, op.131c, no.3 - 2.Scherzo. Vivace (4:23)
6. Reger: Suite for Cello Solo in A minor, op.131c, no.3 - 3.Andante con variazioni (8:01)
7. Françaix: Fantasy for Cello and Piano - 1. Prélude (2:05)
8. Françaix: Fantasy for Cello and Piano - 2. Ecossaise (3:25)
9. Françaix: Fantasy For Cello And Piano - 3. Elégie (4:06)
10. Françaix: Fantasy for Cello and Piano - 4. Scherzo (2:34)
11. Françaix: Fantasy for Cello and Piano - 5. Finale (4:43)

In the year 2015 we should have been celebrating the seventieth birthdays of two uniquely talented women cellists who were both born in 1945, but instead we have been remembering a more tragic coincidence: in 1973, multiple sclerosis forced the English virtuoso Jacqueline du Pré to retire and her German colleague Anja Thauer committed suicide. At that stage Du Pré had already enjoyed almost a decade of fame, while Thauer was still building her career. Anja Heidi Thauer was born on 3 July 1945 in the old Hanseatic port of Lübeck. She had her early music lessons in Braunschweig, some 160 miles to the south, and grew up in Erlangen, attending the Conservatory in nearby Nuremberg. Friends spoke of a lonely childhood and a strict, domineering, even exploitative mother. Anja played violin-and-cello duets with her mother in public at twelve, performed the Boccherini-Grützmacher B flat Concerto at her orchestral début in Baden-Baden, aged thirteen, and at fourteen entered Ludwig Hoelscher's Stuttgart Hochschule masterclass: he was the leading German cellist, a somewhat old-fashioned player but a profound musician. At fifteen she went to the Paris Conservatoire on a scholarship, to study with André Navarra, and also took a course at the École Normale. In 1962, against strong competition from 21 other Paris Conservatoire students, she won the Grand Prix. She was friends with the pianist Claude Françaix and her playing of the Fantaisie by Claude's famous father Jean Françaix had so impressed the pianist-composer that he accompanied her in the final concert; his music became one of her strongest suits and she recorded the work some years later, coupling it with Reger's Third Suite for solo cello. At this stage many fellow students thought her a better player than Du Pré, who studied briefly in Paris with Paul Tortelier around the same time. In Prague in March 1968 she made the DG recording which makes up the rest of this reissue and for which she is best remembered, the Dvorák Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic under 32-year-old Zden Mácal. It was a version praised by The Gramophone's Trevor Harvey upon its first appearance, not only for Thauer's expressive playing, but for the many felicities in Dvorák's score so often overlooked in performances of the work. Thauer's discography is far from large but it is mostly of top quality and these three interpretations are central to it.



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