Elgar - Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations
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Label: Pentatone
Cat No: PTC5186570
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 24th March 2017
Contents
Artists
Johannes Moser (cello)Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductor
Andrew ManzeWorks
Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85Variations on a Rococo theme, op.33
Artists
Johannes Moser (cello)Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductor
Andrew ManzeAbout
Composed at the end of the First World War, Elgar’s powerful Cello Concerto in E minor is one of his best-loved and most deeply-felt works. The soloist’s wrenching chords which open the work announce a mood of profound resignation and loss; gone is the youthful swagger of his earlier works, replaced instead with lonely introspection and longing, especially in the sublimely beautiful Adagio. The cello is given free rein in the vigorous final movement but the opening mood prevails as an anguished outburst from the cello brings the work to a close.
No such dejection hangs over Tchaikovsky’s delightful Variations on a Rococo Theme which ooze elegance, ineffable charm and daring displays of technical brilliance. While the Pezzo capriccioso finds Tchaikovsky in a more restrained mood, with the Nocturne and Andante cantabile he wears his romantic heart full on his sleeve.
The cellist Johannes Moser is no stranger to these works. Winner of the top prize at the 2002 Tchaikovsky Competition, he was also awarded the Special Prize for his interpretation of the Variations on a Rococo Theme. Described by Gramophone as “one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists” and by the LA Times as a musician who “…connects with the audience in a way that only great artists do”, this is Moser’s third outing for Pentatone.
His first album of concertos by Dvořák and Lalo was widely praised for his “performance of enormous flair and effervescence” (BBC Music Magazine) and “his dazzling virtuosity, free, passionate phrasing and immense energy … that recalls Pablo Casals’ iconic 1937 recording” (Strings).
“Moser gives us an exciting, high-tension ride with an impressive sense of structure. He's a musician of alacrity, power and style: virtuosic passages benefit from his fleet effortlessness.” - BBC Music Magazine on Dvořák and Lalo PTC5186488
“The recorded sound is, like the playing, absolutely topnotch... this new version is up there with the best of them and could happily serve as a credible first choice.” - Gramophone on Dvořák and Lalo PTC5186488
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