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The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's series on Avie marks its eighth release with this new recording of works derived from the Jewish tradition. The young principal cello of the orchestra, Jonathan Aasgaard gives fine performances of two seminal works from this genre - Bloch's Hebraic Rhapsody "Schelomo" and Bruch's "Kol Nidrei". David Diamond's "Kaddish" has been eagerly taken up by many cellists including Janos Starker. The CD is completed by two premiere recordings: Gerard Schwarz' "In Memoriam" and Jonathan Aasgaard's own arrangement for cello and strings of Bloch's "Prayer" from the suite From Jewish Life.
Jonathan Aasgaard
Born in Oslo in 1974, Jonathan Aasgaard studied the cello at the Barratt Dues School of Music with Bjørn Solum in Oslo and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. A pupil of Professor Leonard Stehn, Jonathan won all the cello and chamber music prizes and was a Gold Medal finalist. He received his Recital Award in 1998 together with a silver medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Since receiving the Debutant Prize in 1996, Jonathan has enjoyed a busy concert career participating in festivals as diverse as Bergen, Washington, Halifax, Prague, the Manchester Cello Festival and the BBC Lutoslawski Festival, and performing with many of Norway's leading orchestras.
In 1999 he was appointed principal cello of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and made his concerto debut with the orchestra and Junichi Hirokami playing Haydn's D major concerto. Since then he has performed over twenty works for cello and orchestra with the RLPO and has been a guest principal with several leading British and European orchestras. Chamber music performances have taken him around Europe and to Japan, South Korea and the USA; he has recorded for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, Norwegian radio and on TV in Japan, Turkey and the Middle East. As a member of the string trio Philion he has recorded works by Beethoven, Dohnányi and Martinu. A recording of Brahms' cello sonatas with Martin Roscoe is forthcoming.
Jonathan plays a cello made by Celeste Farotti in Milan 1926
Personnel:
Jonathan Aasgaard (cello), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz (conductor)
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