Raphael Wallfisch, Raphael Terroni - British Music for Cello & Piano (2014)
BAND/ARTIST: Raphael Wallfisch, Raphael Terroni
- Title: British Music for Cello & Piano
- Year Of Release: 2014
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:14:55
- Total Size: 287 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Suite for Cello and Piano: I. Prelude
02. Suite for Cello and Piano: II. Capriccio
03. Suite for Cello and Piano: III. Nocturne
04. Suite for Cello and Piano: IV. Tarantella
05. Partita, Op. 35: I. Elegy
06. Partita, Op. 35: II. Scherzo
07. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Theme
08. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation I. Allegro inquieto
09. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation II. Ostinato
10. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation III. March
11. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation IV. Appassionato
12. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation V. Waltz
13. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation VI. Chorale
14. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 66: Lento - Allegro risoluto -
15. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 66: Adagio - Quasi improvvisazione -
16. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 66: in tempo - Poco più mosso - Allegro risoluto - Largamente
17. Cello Sonata No. 2: I. Allegro moderato
18. Cello Sonata No. 2: II. Lento
19. Cello Sonata No. 2: III. Scherzo. Molto vivace
20. Cello Sonata No. 2: IV. Allegro
This release appears to be a sampler of several albums of British cello-and-piano music recorded between 2005 and 2010 for the British Music Society in presumably a single limited-edition run. Lovers of 20th century chamber music will be glad to have it, for the composers represented are sparsely heard even in Britain; William Busch, who died in 1945 after walking through a snowstorm to return to his young son, does not even appear on Wikipedia. All four of the works, even the Cello Sonata No. 2 of Arnold Cooke, composed in 1980, are in a conservative tonal idiom, but "Romantic" would not be quite the right word. The influence of Shostakovich, who had been proclaimed the greatest composer in the world by William Walton, looms over most of these works, which are heavily contrapuntal. The Partita, Op. 35, of Kenneth Leighton, from 1959, consists of an Elegy, a Scherzo, and a theme and six variations; it could be programmed profitably along with a cello sonata by Shostakovich or Prokofiev. The most purely Brahmsian piece is the Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 66, of the curiously named William Wordsworth, which achieves an epic intensity and does not really feel conservative. Nothing here is of earthshaking importance, but all four pieces have personality and did not deserve the oblivion to which they were consigned by a dictatorial modernism.
01. Suite for Cello and Piano: I. Prelude
02. Suite for Cello and Piano: II. Capriccio
03. Suite for Cello and Piano: III. Nocturne
04. Suite for Cello and Piano: IV. Tarantella
05. Partita, Op. 35: I. Elegy
06. Partita, Op. 35: II. Scherzo
07. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Theme
08. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation I. Allegro inquieto
09. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation II. Ostinato
10. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation III. March
11. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation IV. Appassionato
12. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation V. Waltz
13. Partita, Op. 35: III. Theme and Variations. Variation VI. Chorale
14. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 66: Lento - Allegro risoluto -
15. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 66: Adagio - Quasi improvvisazione -
16. Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 66: in tempo - Poco più mosso - Allegro risoluto - Largamente
17. Cello Sonata No. 2: I. Allegro moderato
18. Cello Sonata No. 2: II. Lento
19. Cello Sonata No. 2: III. Scherzo. Molto vivace
20. Cello Sonata No. 2: IV. Allegro
This release appears to be a sampler of several albums of British cello-and-piano music recorded between 2005 and 2010 for the British Music Society in presumably a single limited-edition run. Lovers of 20th century chamber music will be glad to have it, for the composers represented are sparsely heard even in Britain; William Busch, who died in 1945 after walking through a snowstorm to return to his young son, does not even appear on Wikipedia. All four of the works, even the Cello Sonata No. 2 of Arnold Cooke, composed in 1980, are in a conservative tonal idiom, but "Romantic" would not be quite the right word. The influence of Shostakovich, who had been proclaimed the greatest composer in the world by William Walton, looms over most of these works, which are heavily contrapuntal. The Partita, Op. 35, of Kenneth Leighton, from 1959, consists of an Elegy, a Scherzo, and a theme and six variations; it could be programmed profitably along with a cello sonata by Shostakovich or Prokofiev. The most purely Brahmsian piece is the Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 66, of the curiously named William Wordsworth, which achieves an epic intensity and does not really feel conservative. Nothing here is of earthshaking importance, but all four pieces have personality and did not deserve the oblivion to which they were consigned by a dictatorial modernism.
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