- Composer: Benjamin Godard, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, David Popper, Edmund Rubbra, et al.
- Audio CD (1 Mar 2004)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: CD
- Label: Cello Classics
- ASIN: B0001FYRDU
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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THE BRITISH CELLO PHENOMENON
CC1010
The exceptional tradition of British cello playing is celebrated on this exclusive 2-CD set, which gathers together many of the key cellists from the early years of the recording era to the present day. Here are such rarities as Sir John Barbirolli playing Bach; Beatrice Harrison, the Delius dedicatee, playing the Elegy; William Pleeth, one of the leading English cello teachers of his time, playing Rubbra with the composer at the piano; as well as performances from the current cello stars of the concert platform. Specially featured is the rediscovered recording of Jacqueline du Pré playing Rubbra?s Soliloquy, made during a performance with the Newbury String Players and conducted by her brother-in-law Christopher Finzi. With over two hours of music, this is a unique historical document.
The full collection comprises:
CD1 CC1010a
Douglas Cameron/National Symphony Orchestra; Rossini Overture William Tell (Part 1)
John Barbirolli/Ethel Bartlett; Bach Gamba Sonata BWV1027 (Adagio)
WH Squire/Hamilton Harty; Godard Berceuse de Jocelyn
Beatrice Harrison/Orchestra/Eric Fenby; Delius Elegy
Cedric Sharpe/Cecil Dixon; Popper Polonaise de Concert Op14
Felix Salmond/Piano; Grieg To Spring
Lauri Kennedy/Dorothy Kennedy; Popper Hungarian Fantasy
Anthony Pini/Ensemble; Saint-Saëns Softly Wakes my Heart (Samson & Dalila) Op4
Raymond Clark/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Constant Lambert; Tchaikovsky Vision Scene (Sleeping Beauty Op66 Act 2)
Reg Kilbey/Jack Byfield; Massenet Élégie
William Pleeth/Edmund Rubbra; Rubbra Sonata in G minor Op60 (Vivace flessibile)
Alan Dalziel/John Constable; Fauré Élégie
Thomas Igloi/Clifford Benson; Fauré Sonata No2 Op117 (Andante)
Keith Harvey/Linn Hendry; Debussy arr Harvey Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Jacqueline du Pré/Newbury String Players/Christopher Finzi; Rubbra Soliloquy
CD2 CC1010b
Norman Jones/Philharmonia/Gardelli; Verdi Overture I Masnadieri (part)
Denis Vigay/Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Marriner; Suppé Overture Morning, Noon & Night (part)
Derek Simpson/Ernest Lush; Schubert Arpeggione Sonata (Allegretto)
Douglas Cummings; Bach Suite in D minor BWV 1008 (Allemande) & (Courante)
Moray Welsh; Dutilleux Strophe No3
Christopher van Kampen/Ian Brown; Janácek Pohadka III
Raphael Wallfisch/Linn Hendry; Castelnuovo-Tedesco Figaro
Colin Carr; Kodály Solo Sonata Op8 (Allegro molto vivace)
Alexander Baillie/Dominic Harlan; Glière Albumblätter No5 & No12
Robert Cohen/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton; Walton Concerto (Allegro appassionato)
Steven Isserlis/Stephen Hough; Fauré Après un rêve
Tim Hugh; Handel arr. Halvorsen Theme and Variations
Clive Greensmith/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Carl Davis; Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs (Tom Bowling)
Paul Watkins/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davies; Holst Invocation
Total Time for CD1 and CD2 2:37:08
CC1010
The exceptional tradition of British cello playing is celebrated on this exclusive 2-CD set, which gathers together many of the key cellists from the early years of the recording era to the present day. Here are such rarities as Sir John Barbirolli playing Bach; Beatrice Harrison, the Delius dedicatee, playing the Elegy; William Pleeth, one of the leading English cello teachers of his time, playing Rubbra with the composer at the piano; as well as performances from the current cello stars of the concert platform. Specially featured is the rediscovered recording of Jacqueline du Pré playing Rubbra?s Soliloquy, made during a performance with the Newbury String Players and conducted by her brother-in-law Christopher Finzi. With over two hours of music, this is a unique historical document.
The full collection comprises:
CD1 CC1010a
Douglas Cameron/National Symphony Orchestra; Rossini Overture William Tell (Part 1)
John Barbirolli/Ethel Bartlett; Bach Gamba Sonata BWV1027 (Adagio)
WH Squire/Hamilton Harty; Godard Berceuse de Jocelyn
Beatrice Harrison/Orchestra/Eric Fenby; Delius Elegy
Cedric Sharpe/Cecil Dixon; Popper Polonaise de Concert Op14
Felix Salmond/Piano; Grieg To Spring
Lauri Kennedy/Dorothy Kennedy; Popper Hungarian Fantasy
Anthony Pini/Ensemble; Saint-Saëns Softly Wakes my Heart (Samson & Dalila) Op4
Raymond Clark/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Constant Lambert; Tchaikovsky Vision Scene (Sleeping Beauty Op66 Act 2)
Reg Kilbey/Jack Byfield; Massenet Élégie
William Pleeth/Edmund Rubbra; Rubbra Sonata in G minor Op60 (Vivace flessibile)
Alan Dalziel/John Constable; Fauré Élégie
Thomas Igloi/Clifford Benson; Fauré Sonata No2 Op117 (Andante)
Keith Harvey/Linn Hendry; Debussy arr Harvey Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Jacqueline du Pré/Newbury String Players/Christopher Finzi; Rubbra Soliloquy
CD2 CC1010b
Norman Jones/Philharmonia/Gardelli; Verdi Overture I Masnadieri (part)
Denis Vigay/Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Marriner; Suppé Overture Morning, Noon & Night (part)
Derek Simpson/Ernest Lush; Schubert Arpeggione Sonata (Allegretto)
Douglas Cummings; Bach Suite in D minor BWV 1008 (Allemande) & (Courante)
Moray Welsh; Dutilleux Strophe No3
Christopher van Kampen/Ian Brown; Janácek Pohadka III
Raphael Wallfisch/Linn Hendry; Castelnuovo-Tedesco Figaro
Colin Carr; Kodály Solo Sonata Op8 (Allegro molto vivace)
Alexander Baillie/Dominic Harlan; Glière Albumblätter No5 & No12
Robert Cohen/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton; Walton Concerto (Allegro appassionato)
Steven Isserlis/Stephen Hough; Fauré Après un rêve
Tim Hugh; Handel arr. Halvorsen Theme and Variations
Clive Greensmith/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Carl Davis; Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs (Tom Bowling)
Paul Watkins/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davies; Holst Invocation
Total Time for CD1 and CD2 2:37:08
26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you are excited by the apparently generous and varied collection of music on this CD then you need to know that the track listing could be extremely misleading. Pieces may contain only one movement or part of the composition and may even be faded out before they have finished! Other tracks are not the usual version of the piece concerned. The track listing rarely makes this clear. The CD is intended as a (historical) record of famous cellists, not as a collection of music.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a simply marvellous issue, of excellent transfers of English cellists, some now legendary, playing a fascinating range of music, with something for all tastes. Yes, often we get a single movement of a multi-movement work, but this is always made clear; and yes, we get some arrangements of works written for other instruments, but what's the harm in that? The arrangements for cello of Debussy's Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Grieg's To the Spring are both remarkably successful, and add to one's appreciation of the originals. The two Fauré items, played by Isserlis and Igloi, show the cello at its most irresistible, noble and elegaic. For me there is a particular fascination in hearing William Pleeth play a movement of the cello sonata Rubbra wrote for him, while the longest item in the collection is his pupil Jacqueline Du Pré playing the Rubbra Soliloquy for Cello and Strings, in exactly the manner in which I remember Pleeth himself playing it fifty years ago, that is, with stunning intensity and warmth of tone, a real revelation of the power of Rubbra's music when in the right hands; this item alone is worth the price of the whole collection.
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