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schumann / lalo - cello concerti (33rpm lp)
[SR 90347]

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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
CONDITION RECORD M mint
COVER Standard
CONDITION COVER M mint
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MUSICIANS

Janos Starker – cello
London Symphony Orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski - conducting

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856)

cello concerto in a minor op. 129

EDOUARD LALO (1823 – 1892)

concerto for cello and orchestra in d minor

REVIEW

Schumann rapidly composed his Cello Concerto in only two weeks during an extremely productive creative phase

Its first performance was quite another story. Although the piece was written »first and foremost for this beautiful instrument«, so Schumann, no cellist showed any desire to perform the work in concert

Initially the cellist Robert Bockmühl from Frankfurt had shown interest in the piece, but then declined to play it after Schumann had refused to comply with his wishes for certain changes

This led to the unfortunate fact that Schumann did not live to see the work’s premiere

Things went quite differently with Edouard Lalo, who described himself as a self-taught composer; an excellent cellist himself, Lalo could be sure that his work would be heard in the concert hall

Both works are connected by the pioneering attempt to establish the cello as a solo instrument in concert life in the 19th century

Right from the fifth bar of the Schumann concerto Janos Starker is able to display his mastership in the expansive main theme

He enjoys to the full the opportunities to explore the instrument’s range of tone and expression, and this he does with clarity and a full tone

In the Lalo too he demonstrates his absolute virtuosity: in the lyrical passages he delights us with a melting cantabile, in the Saltarello finale he demonstrates his perspicacity and fills the triumphant writing with elegance and tonal resonance

Luckily this music has found its way to one of today’s most outstanding cellists

RECORDING July 1962 at Watford Town Hall United Kingdom by C. Robert Fine
RE RELEASED February 2008
COMPOSED Schumann - 1850 Lalo - 1877
RATING 5 Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Pallas Germany
MADE IN Germany

STYLE

Classic / Cello Concerto

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This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 31 January, 2008.

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